September was a breakout month for rankings. Bison Dentistry finished the month on the first page of Google for 511 different search queries, up from 321 in August, a gain of 190 queries or 59 percent in a single month. The first two pages now hold 741 queries, up from 482 in August, a gain of 259 or 54 percent, and the top 3 tier held its ground at 144 against 143 in August. All three are counted across every query the site appeared for.
Almost all of the gain landed in positions 4 to 10, which went from 178 queries in August to 367. Clicks came in at 245 against 18,854 impressions, up from 236 clicks and 18,232 impressions in August, a 4 percent and 3 percent rise, and both are above July as well. From this report forward, clicks and impressions are Google's totals for the whole site, which include searches Google does not itemise. They are not like for like with the figures quoted last month. On the whole-site basis August was 236 clicks and 18,232 impressions. Among the searches Google itemises by position, first page impressions rose 40 percent, from 3,045 to 4,265, the first page now carries 30 percent of those itemised impressions against 20 percent in August, and 84 percent of itemised clicks came from top 3 positions. That is the opportunity in one line: the site now has far more queries on page one, and the next step is moving them from the middle of the page to the top, where the clicks are.
What reached page one is mostly service demand from across Buffalo rather than brand searches: dentures, urgent tooth problems, tooth infection questions and smile makeovers. The timing lines up with work we shipped mid month. On September 14 we corrected a technical setting on 148 pages so that each one names bisondentistry.com as its official address for Google, and on September 21 the rewritten services and emergency dentistry pages went live. In the 16 days from September 15 to 30 the site held 393 first page queries; in the same 16 days of August it held 209, and in the first 14 days of September, 192. One month does not prove cause, so October's count is the test of whether the gain holds.
In the local map pack, checked daily from Tonawanda, Bison held 9 top three placements across 7 search terms on September 30. That is the same number of placements as the end of August, spread across two more terms, with "best dentist" and "dental cleaning" in the pack on both desktop and mobile.
In AI search, Microsoft's own reporting counted 28 citations of Bison pages in September. From this report forward we total Microsoft's figures by calendar month, so they are not like for like with the rolling 30 day window quoted last month. On the calendar basis August was 12, so September is up 16. AI visibility is still early for this site, and section 07 shows each reading we have.
The implant procedure page drew 1,010 impressions in September against 1,957 in August. Its rankings did not fall with them: the four largest implant searches sat between positions 31 and 41, within a few places of where they were. What changed is how often Google showed results that deep. Across the site, impressions from positions 21 and beyond fell by a quarter among the searches Google itemises by position, partly because queries climbed out of that range onto pages one and two. The same dip showed up in September across unrelated sites we track, concentrated in positions beyond page one, and we are reviewing the daily data before drawing a conclusion. Even so, implants are the cluster where we most want movement and it did not move, and September's page work went to the services hub and the emergency page rather than the implant pages. They are the first priority for the coming month, and we will report on this cluster specifically next month.
We pull from several sources, and each number stays with the source that measures it best from month to month. The headline counts above come from Google's own reporting and cover every search Bison Dentistry appeared for. The map pack numbers further down come from our daily rank tracker, which checks a set list of priority terms from each location on desktop and mobile, so they are a different view and not a restatement of the headline. AI figures come from the platforms themselves and are totalled by calendar month.
Queries where Bison Dentistry appeared on the first page of Google in September, from Google's own reporting. Positions are the average across the month, which is why they carry a decimal. These are the highest impression examples from the 511 first page queries in the headline.
| Keyword | Avg. Position | Monthly Impressions |
|---|---|---|
| bison dentistry | 1.6 | 597 |
| dentist in tonawanda | 9.2 | 255 |
| dental clinic in tonawanda | 1.6 | 146 |
| smile makeovers buffalo | 8.0 | 123 |
| dentist in tonawanda, ny | 3.0 | 118 |
| snap in dentures in buffalo | 7.9 | 113 |
| dentist tonawanda ny | 8.0 | 108 |
| bison dental | 4.2 | 93 |
| loose tooth treatment in buffalo | 8.0 | 88 |
| smile makeover in buffalo | 7.1 | 84 |
| dental checkup in buffalo | 9.5 | 76 |
| smile makeover dentist | 5.9 | 74 |
| smile makeover specialist | 6.2 | 63 |
| bison dentistry tonawanda | 1.0 | 56 |
| baby tooth extraction in buffalo | 8.5 | 45 |
| partial dentures in buffalo | 9.1 | 37 |
| dental infection treatment | 5.0 | 36 |
| tonawanda full teeth replacement | 7.8 | 34 |
| tonawanda teeth whitening treatment | 8.7 | 33 |
| gum recession treatment in tonawanda | 9.1 | 33 |
| dental x ray in buffalo | 2.7 | 32 |
| how to treat a tooth infection | 6.5 | 31 |
| dental checkups | 7.1 | 30 |
| tooth repair tonawanda | 6.2 | 29 |
| full dentures in buffalo | 6.1 | 28 |
| dental implant surgery | 1.6 | 24 |
| dental implant tonawanda | 4.7 | 23 |
| dead tooth treatment in buffalo | 7.4 | 22 |
| pediatric dentist tonawanda ny | 1.9 | 17 |
Of the 63 first page queries among the site's 200 most visible searches in September, 41 were not among August's top 250 at all, which means each drew 6 impressions or fewer that month. The clearest group is dentures: "snap in dentures in buffalo" (position 7.9, 113 impressions), "partial dentures in buffalo" (9.1), "full dentures in buffalo" (6.1) and "flexible dentures in buffalo" (9.8) all arrived together, and the dentures page went from 132 impressions at an average position of 42.5 in August to 407 impressions at 20.7. Urgent tooth searches arrived with the emergency dentistry page as the best performing result, the page we rewrote on your behalf and put live on September 21: "loose tooth treatment in buffalo" at 8.0 with 88 impressions and "dead tooth treatment in buffalo" at 7.4. Tooth infection questions arrived on the root canal article ("dental infection treatment" at 5.0, "how to treat a tooth infection" at 6.5). Among terms from last month's report, "bison dental" moved from position 7 to 4.2 and "dental implant tonawanda" from 16 to 4.7.
Queries ranking just beyond the first page, with an average position above 10 and up to 20, where a small content or link push moves them onto page 1. These are the next wave of winsStriking distance keywords are search terms ranking close to page 1 (average position above 10 and up to 20). They typically take less work to push onto page 1 than starting a brand new keyword from scratch.. This tier grew too, from 161 queries in August to 230 in September.
| Keyword | Avg. Position | Monthly Impressions |
|---|---|---|
| full mouth restorations tonawanda | 16.0 | 347 |
| smile makeovers tonawanda | 14.0 | 303 |
| dental implant restoration tonawanda | 13.3 | 293 |
| dentist near me | 13.6 | 281 |
| dentist | 15.9 | 155 |
| pediatric dentist near me | 16.7 | 136 |
| dentist offices near me | 12.6 | 124 |
| smile makeover dentist buffalo | 13.1 | 96 |
| smile makeovers | 11.2 | 65 |
| dentists buffalo ny | 18.8 | 55 |
| best dentist | 17.7 | 54 |
| kids dentist near me | 10.5 | 53 |
| emergency dentist near tonawanda | 17.4 | 52 |
| dentists near me | 14.8 | 49 |
| dentist offices | 14.1 | 47 |
| dentistry near me | 17.6 | 43 |
| cosmetic dentist near me | 16.9 | 37 |
| chipped tooth repair darien ny | 10.4 | 36 |
| dentist office | 11.9 | 31 |
| dentist accepting new patients near me | 16.2 | 29 |
| dentist appointment | 16.4 | 27 |
| emergency tooth extraction near me | 19.2 | 26 |
| dentist near me for kids | 13.9 | 25 |
| emergency dental | 19.7 | 25 |
"cosmetic dentistry tonawanda" pulled 593 impressions at position 41.8, "dental implants tonawanda" 491 at position 31.0, "porcelain veneers tonawanda" 488 at position 35.4, and "smile makeover dentist tonawanda" 410 at position 32.0. Google is already showing Bison for these searches in volume. Two of them sit higher than in last month's report, where "cosmetic dentistry tonawanda" was at position 47 and "smile makeover dentist tonawanda" at 38. Moving them the rest of the way is a content depth and internal linking job on pages that already exist.
These specific pages are the foundation for everything ranking. The figures below come from Google's own page level reporting for September and count every queryA query is a unique search term this specific page showed up for on Google during the reporting month. One page often appears for many related searches at once. This month the counts cover every query Google recorded for the page, not just its leading ones. each page appeared for. Earlier reports counted only each page's leading queries, so these counts are larger and should not be compared with last month's cards.
Real local 3-packWhen someone searches for a local service like "dentist near me," Google shows a special box at the top with a map and three business listings. This is called the local 3-pack or "map pack" and ranking inside it is a major driver of calls. rankings from our daily rank tracker, which checks a set list of 42 priority terms from the Tonawanda tracking location on desktop and on mobile. This is a different view from the headline counts, which cover every query Google showed the site for. On September 30, Bison held a top three pack position in 9 placements across 7 tracked terms.
| Keyword | Desktop Pack Position | Mobile Pack Position |
|---|---|---|
| best dentist | 2 | 3 |
| dental cleaning | 2 | 2 |
| tooth filling | 2 | Not in pack |
| cavity filling | 2 | Not in pack |
| gum contouring | 3 | Not in pack |
| dental bonding | Not in pack | 2 |
| tooth extraction | Not in pack | 3 |
Last month's table showed the best position each term reached at any point in the month. From this report forward we show where each term stood on the last day of the month, which is the stricter test, so the two tables are not like for like. On the month end basis August was also 9 placements. "cavity filling" and "tooth extraction" are new to the pack, "dental cleaning" holds position 2 on both desktop and mobile, and "best dentist" holds position 2 on desktop and moved from 2 to 3 on mobile. "tooth filling" dropped out on mobile and "dental bonding" on desktop. On the tracker's standard search results from the same location on desktop, "dentist" stood at position 8 on September 30 against 11 at the end of August, and "dentist near me" at 10 against 13. Those are single location checks of two head terms, so they will not match the all search averages in section 04. Map pack readings this month are from the Tonawanda location.
AI visibility is still early for this site, so this section is short. We read it three ways. Microsoft's own reporting counts citations inside Bing and Copilot. Google's own reporting counts how many times the site surfaced inside Google's AI features. A cross-platform snapshot samples citations across seven AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Copilot, Gemini and Grok). Microsoft is where the growth is.
Microsoft's citations went from 12 to 28. Google's AI features showed Bison pages less often than in August, 402 times against 556, and the homepage accounts for 241 of those, or 60 percent, so Google's AI is drawing on the practice's front door far more than on its service or article pages. The cross-platform snapshot held at a single citation. We also track a fixed set of dental questions for the Buffalo market in ChatGPT and in Google AI Overviews and check whether Bison is named or linked in the answers. That tracking is in place and ran all month, and Bison was not yet named or linked in the tracked answers in September. The cosmetic page work in section 08 covers the same topics those questions ask about, and we will report each of these readings again next month on the same basis.
September put 190 more queries on the first page and 259 more inside the top 20. The plan for the coming month is to confirm that gain holds, turn the new page one positions into clicks, and get the implant pages moving. The year end dental benefits guide we published on your behalf at the end of September is also live in time for the fourth quarter.
Deeper on-page content and internal linking on the implant procedure and dental implants pages. This is the watch item: the procedure page drew 1,010 impressions against 1,957 in August, and "dental implants tonawanda" is still at position 31.0 with 491 impressions waiting behind it.
367 queries now sit in positions 4 to 10 and produced 12 percent of the clicks Google itemises by position, while the 144 top 3 queries produced 84 percent. Sharper titles and descriptions on the dentures, emergency and find a dentist pages are the route from the middle of page one to the top of it.
"cosmetic dentistry tonawanda" (593 impressions at position 41.8) and "porcelain veneers tonawanda" (488 at 35.4) are the largest searches still beyond page two. The cosmetic dental care page improved its average position from 45.7 to 32.2 in September, and the next depth pass is aimed at page two.