August widened Blount's ranking base considerably. The site finished the month in the top 3 for 40 search queries (up 3), on the first page for 228 (up 50), and inside the top 20 for 329 (up 69). That is the biggest single month of page one expansion the account has had. Click volume went the other way, though, falling from 63 to 46 even as impressions rose to 6,040. Both things are true at once: more of the site is visible on page one than ever, and fewer people clicked through in August than in July. The concentration is worth noting, because the top 3 positions produced 83 percent of all clicks and the first page produced 98 percent, on 2,765 impressions. The newly won page one placements are the pool that has to be pushed upward next, since that is where the click volume lives.
On the traditional search side, the numbers moved the same direction. The site now shows up in Google for 446 different search queries, up from 397 last month, and the page one share of that pool grew faster than the pool itself: 228 of those queries now land on the first page against 178 in July, with 40 in the top 3 against 37. Total monthly Google impressions rose to 6,040 and overall search visibility climbed again, from 9.9 percent to 11.0 percent.
The headline ranking story is the head terms finally breaking through. "Concrete contractors" (74,000 searches per month) is now on page 1 at position 7, "concrete companies" (14,800 per month) sits at position 2, "concrete services" (4,400 per month) at position 5, and "concrete company near me" (6,600 per month) at position 10. The concrete delivery cluster is the strongest page on the site, with five separate delivery terms holding position 1 and "concrete delivery" (5,400 per month) at position 2. The excavation cluster continues to hold position 1 across the board.
We pull from several sources so no single tool tells the whole story. The headline counts above come from Google's own reporting, which covers every search Blount appeared for. The city-by-city and map pack numbers further down come from a daily rank tracker checking each market separately on desktop and mobile. AI citations come from the platforms themselves. Each number comes from whichever source measures it best, and stays with that source month to month.
Queries where Blount currently appears on the first page of Google. Brand is fully owned, the excavation cluster is holding position 1, and the concrete delivery family has become the strongest single block of rankings on the site.
| Keyword | Position | Monthly Impressions |
|---|---|---|
| blount concrete | 1 | 187 |
| concrete delivery | 2 | 93 |
| concrete excavation | 1 | 85 |
| excavation and concrete | 1 | 79 |
| ready mix concrete delivery companies near me | 4 | 79 |
| blount construction | 1 | 78 |
| sidewalk repair near me | 4 | 76 |
| concrete delivery near me prices | 3 | 75 |
| delivery concrete mix | 3 | 73 |
| 1 yard concrete delivery near me | 1 | 72 |
| concrete excavation removal | 2 | 72 |
| excavating concrete | 1 | 72 |
| 2 yards of concrete delivered | 3 | 71 |
| blount construction company | 4 | 71 |
| ready mix concrete delivery near me | 3 | 71 |
| excavation concrete | 1 | 69 |
| blount construction buffalo ny | 1 | 68 |
| concrete company tonawanda ny | 5 | 68 |
| small concrete truck delivery near me | 1 | 68 |
| concrete mix delivery near me | 2 | 66 |
| commercial foundation services | 2 | 65 |
| concrete maintenance | 5 | 64 |
Queries already ranking on page 2 where a small content or on-page push moves them onto page 1. These are the next wave of winsStriking distance keywords are search terms ranking close to page 1 (positions 11 to 20). They typically take less work to push onto page 1 than starting a brand new keyword from scratch., and the top two alone represent more than 68,000 searches a month.
| Keyword | Position | Monthly Search Volume |
|---|---|---|
| concrete companies near me | 11 | 40,500 |
| excavation companies near me | 12 | 27,800 |
| concrete driveway contractors near me | 19 | 2,900 |
| foundation contractors near me | 17 | 2,400 |
| concrete services near me | 13 | 740 |
| sidewalk contractors near me | 19 | 480 |
| ready mix concrete buffalo ny | 13 | 90 |
| buffalo ready mix concrete | 15 | 90 |
These specific pages are the foundation for everything ranking. Each one carries a block of related search terms. The number of anchored termsAn "anchored term" is a tracked commercial search term where Google is choosing this specific page as the result it shows for Blount. One strong page typically anchors many related searches at once. shown next to each page is how many tracked commercial searches Google is sending to that page.
Beyond the brand and excavation cluster, these are the generic, high-volume concrete searches that decide who gets the work across the Buffalo metro. August is the month several of them moved onto page 1 for the first time.
| Keyword | Search Volume | Position | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| concrete contractors | 74,000 | 7 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete companies near me | 40,500 | 11 | Buffalo metro |
| excavation companies near me | 27,800 | 12 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete companies | 14,800 | 2 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete company near me | 6,600 | 10 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete delivery | 5,400 | 2 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete services | 4,400 | 5 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete driveway contractors near me | 2,900 | 19 | Buffalo metro |
| foundation contractors near me | 2,400 | 17 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete services near me | 740 | 13 | Buffalo metro |
| sidewalk contractors near me | 480 | 19 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete excavation | 320 | 1 | Buffalo metro |
| excavating concrete | 320 | 1 | Buffalo metro |
| excavation concrete | 320 | 1 | Buffalo metro |
| 1 yard concrete delivery near me | 260 | 1 | Buffalo metro |
| ready mix concrete delivery near me | 260 | 3 | Buffalo metro |
| excavation and concrete | 210 | 1 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete maintenance | 210 | 5 | Buffalo metro |
| concrete mix delivery near me | 140 | 2 | Buffalo metro |
| short load concrete delivery near me | 140 | 1 | Buffalo metro |
Last cycle both trackers read zero. This cycle Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode each cited a Blount page, and Bing reported 12 verified citations inside the Microsoft ecosystem. Two independent systems crossing from zero to real numbers in the same month is not a sampling fluke. It is the point where the content depth and schema work we have been building on the site starts being treated as a source AI answer engines will quote.
The pages AI is pulling are the two we have invested the most in: the homepage, which we rewrote the metadata and schema for, and the concrete delivery page, which is also the strongest ranking page on the site. That is the pattern. Substantive, specific, well-structured pages get quoted. The guides we published through the summer on stamped and decorative concrete, driveway planning, patios, summer curing, cold weather pouring, and road salt protection are all built to feed the same flywheel, and we continue to monitor 10 conversational concrete and excavation prompts across Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT to see where the next pickups land.
We wrote and staged two new seasonal articles in August: a cold weather concrete guide covering pouring and curing late in the Western New York season, and a road salt protection guide aimed squarely at the "concrete maintenance" cluster that is now holding position 5. Both follow the structure that has been working: a real decision framework, local freeze-thaw context, and a question and answer section marked up so search engines and AI answer engines can read it cleanly.
We also completed a rewrite batch on two service pages, decorative concrete and driveways, working section by section into the existing page structure so nothing broke visually. The driveway page is the one to watch: driveway searches are now stacking up on pages 2 and 3, which is exactly the position the delivery and excavation pages were in before they broke through.
Underneath that, the metadata and structured data work we deployed earlier in the year is still compounding. Every page now serves a unique, written description rather than a shared one, and the site carries business, service, question and answer, and breadcrumb markup. That markup is a meaningful part of why AI engines can now identify and quote Blount's pages.
Two things happened at once in August, and they are connected. The biggest generic concrete terms in the market moved onto page 1, and AI answer engines started citing the site for the first time. Both come from the same source: pages with real depth on them. The next phase is widening that from the two pages carrying the load today to the full service set, and converting the page 2 block that now contains more than 68,000 monthly searches.
"Concrete companies near me" at position 11 and "excavation companies near me" at position 12 are the two largest single opportunities on the site by a wide margin. We are sharpening internal linking, on-page copy, and supporting content aimed at both, along with "concrete services near me," "foundation contractors near me," and the sidewalk contractor terms.
The delivery page proves the model: enough depth on one topic and Google hands you the whole cluster. Driveways and patios are core services with searches already building on pages 2 and 3. We are adding the supporting content and internal linking to push that cluster the same way, which should also open up more AI citation surface.