REAL SEO. REAL GOOGLE DATA.

431 Page-One
Rankings. One Year.

No estimated traffic. No cherry-picked screenshots. No mysterious SEO score. This is what one year of organic search work for a real addiction treatment business produced according to Google Search Console.

CASE STUDY Excellence Recovery
Digital marketing analytics and SEO performance data displayed on a laptop
627K+ Google Search Impressions
627K+ Google Impressions
177 Top 3 Rankings
241 Top 5 Rankings
431 Page-One Rankings
THE ONE-YEAR RESULTS

This Is What an Organic Footprint Looks Like.

From July 31, 2025 through July 31, 2026, Excellence Recovery generated visibility across hundreds of different Google searches. These ranking counts represent average Google Search Console positions across the full reporting period.

177

Top 3

Queries averaging positions 1 through 3 in Google search results.

241

Top 5

Nearly a quarter of the top 1,000 exported queries averaged within Google's first five positions.

431

Page One

Hundreds of different searches capable of putting the business directly in front of potential customers.

604

Top 20

More than half of the exported query set averaged within Google's first two pages.

3,879

Organic Clicks

Real visits from Google organic search during the one-year reporting window.

627,556

Search Impressions

More than half a million opportunities for the business to appear in Google search results.

Analytics dashboard showing digital performance data
THE DIFFERENCE IS THE DATA

Rankings Are Nice. A Search Footprint Is Better.

I don't judge SEO by whether one trophy keyword happens to look good on a particular day. I want to see Google repeatedly discovering, testing and ranking the business across hundreds of relevant searches.

THE NUMBER THAT REALLY MATTERS

They're Not Just Searching for the Company Name.

Ranking for your own business name is expected. That's why I separated branded searches from the rest of the data.

After removing queries containing “Excellence Recovery,” the site still had 418 non-branded page-one queries.

Those are searches from people looking for treatment, detox, recovery, mental health information and related services — not just people who already knew the business existed.

97%

of the page-one footprint remained.

418 of the 431 page-one queries remained after removing searches containing the Excellence Recovery brand name.

REAL RANKING EXAMPLES

Not Vanity Keywords.
Actual Treatment Searches.

A few examples from the one-year Google Search Console data:

Detox Centers Surprise #1.03
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers Surprise AZ #1.96
Alcohol Rehab Surprise AZ #2.00
Addiction Recovery Programs Surprise #2.20
Substance Abuse Treatment #2.26
Medical Detox Near Me #2.27
Addiction Recovery Programs Surprise AZ #2.44
Addiction Treatment #2.57
Important: these aren't manual Google searches performed once and screenshotted at the best possible moment. The positions shown above are average positions reported by Google Search Console.
HOW I APPROACH SEO

No Magic Serum.
Just the Work.

SEO doesn't need to sound mysterious. I figure out what people search, build the right structure around it, give Google a reason to understand the site, and keep improving what works.

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01

Find the Opportunity

Research search demand, competition, user intent and geographic opportunities instead of blindly chasing keywords.

02

Build the Structure

Create service pages, location pages, internal linking and site architecture designed around how people actually search.

03

Write for Search + People

Build content that answers the search while still making sense to the human who lands on the page.

04

Watch Google

Search Console shows what Google is testing, what is moving and where the next opportunities are.

05

Adjust

Rankings aren't static. Pages, content, internal links and targeting are refined based on actual performance.

06

Expand the Footprint

One good ranking isn't the goal. The goal is hundreds of relevant ways for customers to discover the business.

CAN I DO IT AGAIN?

So I Started Another Test.

In August 2026, I documented ten new commercial keywords across Chandler, Gilbert and Tempe before beginning the next expansion.

9 / 10 targets were absent from the historical top-1,000 query export before the test.
8 / 10 targets were already appearing in Search Console 24 days later.
7 previously absent exact-match targets developed measurable Google visibility.
+14 positions gained by the one target with a clean exact historical baseline.
And I hadn't even built the supporting article clusters yet. The early visibility came from the initial service-page strategy alone. SEO takes time, but I don't think “SEO takes time” should mean you can't measure whether Google is responding.
THE INVESTMENT
$2,500
per month

That's what this client invests in my SEO work.

SO IS $2,500 EXPENSIVE?

Depends What You're Getting for It.

If you're paying $2,500 every month for a report filled with SEO scores, unexplained backlinks and buzzwords, that might feel expensive.

I look at it differently.

431 Page-One Rankings A broad organic search footprint instead of one or two trophy keywords.
418 Non-Branded Page-One Queries Visibility for people searching for services and information — not just the company name.
An Asset That Keeps Working Paid ads stop when the budget stops. Strong organic pages can continue producing visibility long after they're built.
You Work Directly With Me No rotating account managers, outsourced mystery teams or wondering who is actually doing the SEO.
MY PROPRIETARY SEO FORMULA

I Don't Have Any Magic SEO Sauce.

I research. I build. I write. I measure. I adjust. That's less exciting than pretending there's a secret formula — but Google seems to be okay with it.

01 Research
02 Build
03 Optimize
04 Measure
05 Improve

What Could I Get Your Business Ranking For?

Tell me what you sell, where you want to compete and what your website is doing now. I'll take a look at the market and tell you what I see.

LET'S TALK SEO →
Data source: Google Search Console. Reporting period: July 31, 2025 through July 31, 2026. Ranking counts are based on the top 1,000 queries contained in the exported Search Console dataset and their average positions during the reporting period. Search rankings fluctuate and past performance does not guarantee identical future results.