August is the highest enquiry month in the series we hold. 45 form submissions, 21 of them from organic search, and the organic figure is up 163% on August last year. The longest run of enquiry history we have is your Results sheet, 13 months from July 2025 to July 2026, and its best month there is 39, so August's 45 sits above all of them. In the quiet season.
The 45 is GA4's count of quote-form submissions, read live on 2 September 2026. Your site records that form twice in Google Analytics, once directly and once through Tag Manager, so the two events of 45 are the same 45 submissions rather than 90. The 21 from organic search, and the 8 for August 2025 it is measured against, were read from GA4 the same day and are not in the Results sheet, which counts total enquiries and runs to July 2026.
Search clicks eased slightly, and the reason is worth understanding. Clicks were down 3.2% on July, but impressions rose 7.5% to the highest level since May. Google showed you more often and fewer of those people clicked. Had your click-through rate held at July's level, August would have produced around 266 clicks rather than 239. That is the signature of Google answering more questions directly on the results page, not a ranking problem, and the enquiry record in the same month says the visitors who do arrive are the right ones.
Year on year the picture is clear: August clicks are up 61.5% on August 2025, and that is now four straight months ahead of the same month last year.
Window 26 July to 25 August 2026, against the previous window (Google reports these on a rolling basis rather than calendar months).
| Measure | 26 Jul to 25 Aug | 26 Jun to 26 Jul | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile views | 586 | 423 | +39% |
| Direction requests | 63 | 47 | +34% |
| Website clicks | 23 | 22 | +5% |
| Calls | 5 | 2 | +3 |
586 profile views is 163 more than the window before it, a lift of 39%. Across the profile's full daily history since April 2024, 81 of the 864 rolling 31-day windows in it sit higher, so this is a strong window rather than a record one. Your Google profile also under-reports interactions, so treat these as a floor.
Checked live on Google New Zealand, 2 September 2026, across your 37 tracked keywords: 31 rank in the top 50, 11 on page one, 8 in the top 3, and 5 at number 1.
| Keyword | Live position |
|---|---|
| hedge cutting | 1 |
| hedge cutting contractors | 1 |
| hedge maintenance service | 1 |
| garden hedge maintenance | 1 |
| tree pruning auckland | 1 |
| garden and tree maintenance | 2 |
| hedge cutting services | 2 |
| hedge maintenance | 2 |
On the Maps grid, "hedge maintenance" holds a top-three position from all 169 points, and "tree removal" and "arborist" are at 76 and 68 points respectively. One is moving the wrong way: "gardening services" has gone from 18 top-three points in March to 10 now. Google Business Profile
One finding is worth acting on more than any other. Your four main service pages were shown 53,803 times across June to August and produced 86 clicks, because none of them rank on page one. "Arborist" alone was shown 4,556 times. Meanwhile two blog posts do half of all your search clicks.
The demand is there and the service pages are not yet ranking well enough to catch it. That is the work with the clearest payoff from here.