Team Empathy  ·  Monthly report

August 2026

SEO & AI visibility, in your new live format
Data window: 1 to 31 August 2026 · Pulled 2 September 2026 · Sources: Google Search Console, GA4, Ahrefs, a live Google NZ rankings check (DataForSEO) · Compared against July 2026 and August 2025
Your reporting has a new home. This page replaces the monthly PDF. Each month gets its own tab on this one link, the full history stays in one place, and the Download PDF button gives you a copy any time. Rankings are now checked automatically against the live Google New Zealand results, the same way we've always checked them by hand, so your trend line carries straight on. Your SEO doc has August's columns added too.

The month at a glance

$18,915
Organic revenue tracked · GA4 website checkout
↓ vs $22,060 July~19x your monthly plan
19 of 35
Tracked keywords in Google's top 3 on the live check
10 at number 1portaloo hire 23 → 7
2,074
Organic clicks · Search Console
↓ 12.0% vs July↓ 40.7% vs Aug 2025
119,038
Impressions · Search Console
→ 0.9% down vs July↓ 24.3% vs Aug 2025
71
Purchases recorded in GA4, all channels
↑ from 57 in July
66
Phone number clicks, all channels
↑ from 61 in July
22
Visits from AI assistants (ChatGPT 16 · Claude 4 · Gemini 2)
↓ from 31 in Julyfirst AI-referred purchase 🎉
DR 24
Domain Rating · 900 live backlinks · 473 referring domains · Ahrefs, 2 Sep

Your return this month

MeasureAugust 2026Last 12 months
Organic search revenue tracked (GA4, website checkout)$18,915 · 46 purchases$353,906 · 883 purchases
Your plan$1,000Current plan $1,000 a month
Tracked return~19x~$29,500 a month average

GA4 counts website checkout only, so every phone booking and quote job lands on top of these figures, and they include both branded and non-branded searchers. If you can share a rough monthly figure for phone and quote work, we'll agree a fuller number together and report against it. GA4

What August actually says

Rankings held; the market stayed quiet. Winter is always the slow season for bins, and this winter sits inside the tough market you've been feeling all year: searches for your category were down about a quarter on August last year. The clicks decline is a demand and click-through story, and part of that click-through story is AI: Google now shows an AI Overview on 9 of your 35 tracked search results, answering some searchers before they click anything.

The buying signals held up better than the traffic. Purchases recorded in GA4 rose to 71 (57 in July) and phone clicks edged up to 66. Site traffic overall jumped to 14,288 sessions on the back of your paid social push (9,901 sessions), which is worth knowing when you read the totals: the extra volume in August is bought, not organic. Organic still out-earned everything at the checkout.

Keyword rankings

Positions from a live Google New Zealand check on 2 September (via DataForSEO, our rank tracking tool, the automated version of the manual monthly check we've always done), alongside July's positions from your sheet. Clicks and impressions per keyword are August's, from Search Console.

KeywordJulyLive check (2 Sep)MoveClicks (Aug)Impressions (Aug)
skip bin hire auckland11501,014
bin hire auckland31↑ 210233
skip bin hire manukau11488
cheapest skip bin hire south auckland11059
bins for hire auckland11092
pink bin hire11232
pink bin company11132
pink rubbish bin111143
bin hire manukau11046
asbestos disposal bags nz11260
skip bin hire cheapest price42↑ 217393
cheap skip bins229270
skip bins for hire32↑ 1059
flexible bin22156
bin hire23↓ 19190
skip hire auckland23↓ 113273
cheapest skip bins auckland33193
bins for hire23↓ 12139
flexi bags nz23↓ 1064
skip bin hire34↓ 1611,296
flexi bag24↓ 20185
flexi skip24↓ 2053
skip bins auckland35↓ 212398
skip bins35↓ 210513
flexibag35↓ 2084
green waste disposal auckland86↑ 2094
auckland bins136↑ 7083
flexi skip bags26↓ 4066
portaloo hire237↑ 165576
skip hire58↓ 30205
portaloo hire auckland98↑ 14124
waste bin19↓ 81174
asbestos rubbish removal810↓ 2036
mixed waste skip314↓ 11031
rubbish bins824↓ 163386

Pills: green = top 3, blue = positions 4 to 10, amber = 11 to 20, red = beyond 20. July column: your sheet's "31 July 2026" check. Highlights: portaloo hire continued its recovery, 23 to 7, and auckland bins jumped 13 to 6. The softer moves cluster on generic retail-intent terms (rubbish bins, waste bin, mixed waste skip) where big-box results churn; the commercial hire terms held.

Top pages

PageClicksvs JulyImpressionsvs July
Homepage986↓ 23934,028↓ 4,057
/how-can-i-pay-for-my-skip-bin-afterpay/136↑ 41,548↑ 154
/product/pink-bins/95↓ 3112,598↓ 926
/textile-recycling-in-nz-.../73↓ 54,933↑ 125
/how-much-to-hire-a-skip-bin-in-auckland/62↓ 297,633↓ 547
/product/pink-bags/60↓ 395,415↓ 1,388
/hazibags/57↑ 131,200↑ 99
/cardboard-recycling-101-.../48↑ 252,981↑ 787
/portaloos/43↑ 311,629↑ 1,193
/how-to-hire-a-skip-bin-with-a-winz-quote/36↑ 81,946↓ 2,645

The portaloos page is the standout: clicks up 31 and impressions nearly quadrupled, matching the ranking recovery on portaloo terms. The cardboard recycling and hazibags pages also lifted while the homepage carried the seasonal decline. Search Console

Traffic and enquiries

MeasureAugust 2026July 2026Note
All sessions14,2888,865The jump is your paid social campaign (9,901 paid social sessions in August vs 4,305 in July)
Organic search sessions2,3913,050Down 21.6%, in line with the seasonal and market picture above
Purchases (all channels)7157GA4 purchase events
Phone number clicks6661GA4, all channels
Email link clicks1911GA4, all channels
AI assistant visits2231ChatGPT 16 · Claude 4 · Gemini 2 · includes your first tracked AI-referred purchase

Form submissions also rose sharply (282 form events vs 81 in July), but most of that lift arrived with the paid campaign and a tracking event that fires more broadly, so we're not claiming it as an organic win. GA4

Work delivered and what's coming

August was a transition month at our end as we rebuilt how delivery and reporting run (you'll have seen Bruna's farewell note). What happened and what's next, in brief: