Both windows rose, and the growth is Dutch rather than incidental foreign traffic. 29 of the 37 organic sessions came from the Netherlands.
| Measure | This week | Last week | Change | Reads as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic sessions, 28d | 37 | 27 | +37% | Clears the 8% threshold |
| Organic sessions, 7d | 13 | 10 | +3 | Too noisy to read alone |
| Total sessions, 28d | 89 | 76 | +13 | Direct still the largest channel at 45 |
| AI referral sessions, 28d | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 from ChatGPT. A floor, not a citation count |
| Netherlands share of organic | 78% | — | 29 of 37 | Growth is in the target market |
The remaining 8 sessions are single visits from the US, Czechia, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Singapore and Belgium. Nothing there is a market worth naming yet. Belgium has one session and zero ranked keywords, so it stays out of the plan for now.
The same three terms sit at the same positions they have held since mid August. Traffic rising while rankings stand still means the visits are not coming from these keywords.
| Ranked keyword, NL | Position | Volume/mo | Ranking page |
|---|---|---|---|
| prop firm | 37 | 390 | /prop-firms/ |
| prop trading | 49 | 210 | /prop-firms/ |
| prop firm trading | 62 | 140 | /de-grootste-voordelen-van-prop-firm-trading/ |
Google has correctly reattributed the first two terms to the /prop-firms/ pillar. The third is still credited to the legacy path, which was a soft 404 serving the homepage until it was fixed on 2026-08-15. Five weeks on, Google has not caught up. Nothing to do but wait, and do not read that row as a real page.
Zero real backlinks. All 10 referring domains score 60 or above for spam. Domain rank is 0 and the site-level spam score is 65. Three keywords stuck between positions 37 and 62, with no link equity at all, is a link problem rather than a content problem. Every week without a real link is a week those three cannot move.
The content backlog lives in the site repo, not here: MTA Website/seo/PROGRESS.md and its own gap-register.csv. These three carry the highest return from that queue, and none of them needs anything written from scratch.
The shortest distance to a real click anywhere on this site: 94 impressions across 21 queries at weighted position 21.1, on a page Google has already indexed. Lead with the English twin — /en/sam/cisd/ outdraws the Dutch page 81 impressions to 46, because the queries are English. cisd trading is 90/mo at keyword difficulty 0. Done = both pages answer the query directly in the first 100 words.
Written three weeks ago and still sitting in draft-posts-2026-08-30.md. It needs a real person's account, so it can only come from the owner. Done = posted, with the URL recorded in link-targets.md.
Both halves, Dutch and English, are still unknown to Google. Search Console, URL Inspection, Request Indexing. Two clicks. Done = both show "Indexing requested".
Nothing gained and nothing lost this week, compared against the 2026-09-11 snapshot. The dofollow share reads 100%, which means nothing here: every dofollow link comes from a spam domain, and that is worse than a nofollow link from a real one.
| Referring domain | Spam score | First seen | Dofollow |
|---|---|---|---|
| fashionclothingnews.com | 2026-08-31 | Yes | |
| uncledspizza.com | 2026-08-30 | Yes | |
| quotesblom.com | 2026-08-27 | Yes | |
| theforbestimes.com | 2026-08-23 | Yes | |
| betwinnermirror.com | 2026-08-20 | Yes | |
| betulcrime.com | 2026-08-15 | Yes | |
| homesforsaleoldgreenwichct.com | 2026-08-13 | Yes | |
| ggmap.us.com | 2026-08-03 | Yes | |
| m98ufa.com | 2026-07-08 | Yes | |
| plumeriamarketing.com | 2026-07-03 | Yes |
Every domain contributes exactly one link, so there is no concentration to read and no equity to lose. A disavow file covering all ten is warranted.
lynx.nl is confirmed on two of this site's clusters and the pitch is already written. A Dutch broker linking to a Dutch trading-psychology site is exact topical relevance, and it is the only outstanding ask likely to be dofollow. This is the one that solves the zero-real-links problem. Done = pitch sent, reply logged in link-targets.md.
Solves reach and brand queries, not link equity. LinkedIn links are nofollow. Worth doing, but do not record it as progress against the backlink problem.
That thread ranks #2 for leren traden, so a genuinely useful comment sits in front of real Dutch demand. Reddit links are nofollow and fix nothing about the profile. Recommended three weeks running and still not done — if it does not happen this week, drop it and say the ask is not landing.
One good week on a base this small can reverse just as fast. If the 28-day figure is still near 37 next week, the rise is real. If it drops below 30, this week was a spike.
The homepage takes 19 of the 37 sessions and /[coach] takes 5. No content page takes more than 2. Nothing yet shows which content pulls search traffic, which is exactly why the CISD work matters more than another post.
The owner reconnected on 2026-09-07. It had expired twice in the nine days before that. Check the connection before relying on any Search Console figure in this brief or the next.
If Google has not reattributed prop firm trading to /prop-firms/ by mid-October, confirm the 301 is actually live rather than assuming the soft-404 fix covered it.