August is the biggest month this site has had, by a wide margin. Clicks more than doubled, impressions more than doubled again on top of July's jump, and organic visitors grew 114%. August alone brought in more search clicks than December through March combined.
This is the June and July work maturing. Content published and links built over those two months take roughly this long to show up in rankings, and August is when they landed together.
Checked live on Google Australia, 2 September 2026, across your 27 tracked keywords. The July column is our manual monthly check and the live column is an automated check, so they are two different instruments reading the same site.
| Where they sit | July | Live, 2 September |
|---|---|---|
| Ranking at all | 22 of 27 | 23 of 27 |
| In the top 20 | 7 | 17 |
| In the top 10 | 1 | 4 |
| Keyword | Live position | Monthly searches (AU) |
|---|---|---|
| poyungan rocks accommodation | 5 | 10 |
| best place to stay on fraser island | 9 | 170 |
| stay at fraser island | 9 | 20 |
| k'gari accommodation | 10 | 880 |
| fraser island retreat | 11 | 720 |
| fraser island accommodation | 12 | 9,900 |
| accommodation on fraser island | 13 | 9,900 |
The two big ones: "fraser island accommodation" and "accommodation on fraser island", each searched about 9,900 times a month in Australia, now sit at 12 and 13. As recently as May, neither ranked anywhere. Getting these two into the top 10 is the highest-value work available.
Still to crack: "beachfront accommodation", "beach house accommodation" and "fraser island accommodation packages" have not ranked yet. They need their own pages rather than a mention inside an existing one.
| Measure | August 2026 | July 2026 | May 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total sessions | 838 | 640 | 487 |
| Organic search sessions | 306 | 143 | 75 |
| Organic share of all visits | 36.5% | 22.3% | 15.4% |
| Visits from AI assistants | 12 | 5 | 6 |
All figures measured in GA4 for consistency across the three months shown. Note that earlier monthly reports quoted the traffic figure from the SEO Work sheet, which counts slightly differently, so this table is not directly comparable to the number in the July email. GA4
Google now runs an AI answer above the results on 7 of your 27 tracked searches, and on one of them, "best place to stay on fraser island", that AI answer cites The Haven. You rank 9th on the same search. Worth searching it yourself to see.
Visits from AI assistants also hit 12 in August, the highest on record. Small numbers, but this is the channel that decides the next few years, and being quoted this early is ahead of schedule.