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.
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.
Top 3
Queries averaging positions 1 through 3 in Google search results.
Top 5
Nearly a quarter of the top 1,000 exported queries averaged within Google's first five positions.
Page One
Hundreds of different searches capable of putting the business directly in front of potential customers.
Top 20
More than half of the exported query set averaged within Google's first two pages.
Organic Clicks
Real visits from Google organic search during the one-year reporting window.
Search Impressions
More than half a million opportunities for the business to appear in Google search results.
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.
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.
of the page-one footprint remained.
418 of the 431 page-one queries remained after removing searches containing the Excellence Recovery brand name.
Not Vanity Keywords.
Actual Treatment Searches.
A few examples from the one-year Google Search Console data:
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.
Find the Opportunity
Research search demand, competition, user intent and geographic opportunities instead of blindly chasing keywords.
Build the Structure
Create service pages, location pages, internal linking and site architecture designed around how people actually search.
Write for Search + People
Build content that answers the search while still making sense to the human who lands on the page.
Watch Google
Search Console shows what Google is testing, what is moving and where the next opportunities are.
Adjust
Rankings aren't static. Pages, content, internal links and targeting are refined based on actual performance.
Expand the Footprint
One good ranking isn't the goal. The goal is hundreds of relevant ways for customers to discover the business.
So I Started Another Test.
In August 2026, I documented ten new commercial keywords across Chandler, Gilbert and Tempe before beginning the next expansion.
That's what this client invests in my SEO work.
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.
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.
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.
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