Toodegrees SEO - Week of Aug 16, 2026
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Weekly SEO Brief

Week of August 16, 2026

Week 2. First deltas against the baseline. Window ending 18 Aug.
Organic 28d
504
-43 vs 547
Organic 7d
121
+7 vs 114
Non-US share
62%
+2.2pp
AI sessions 28d
10
-1, still flat
Reached pricing
27%
+0.9pp
Ranked keywords
26
-1, flat

The scheduled 16 Aug run stalled and wrote nothing. It hung inside Rybbit metrics collection. This is the catch-up collection, run 19 Aug. The collector completed cleanly on re-run, so the stall was a transient API hang, not a code fault. The 28d window overlaps the baseline by 19 days, so traffic deltas are soft. Conversion and backlink deltas are exact.

1. What moved

Landing-page CTA tracking is now firing. Last week cta_click had never fired on the three landing pages and all three funnels sat at zero. This week they carry real numbers. The events are wired and the pages are taking traffic, which closes last week's open question about whether the tracking was broken.

Landing pageSessionscta_click
/exclusive-offer28 (was 6)1 (was 0)
/exclusive-access22 (was 4)4 (was 0)
/vip-access24 (was 4)2 (was 0)

One contradiction to resolve: these pages are live and taking traffic, but they still sit in the robots.txt disallow block. Either they are real campaign pages that should not be disallowed, or they are test pages that should not be promoted. Decide which.

2. Conversion — the checkout step got worse

Cumulative since 31 Jan 2026. Weekly movement is the subtraction against last week's snapshot.

FunnelPath nowThis week
Purchase Journey / 8,263 → /pricing 2,942 → /checkout 555 → /welcome 94 +257 / +125 / +21 / +1
Indicators to Purchase /indicators 4,465 → /pricing 1,855 → /checkout 381 → /welcome 72 +181 / +74 / +10 / +1
Exit Popup Capture popup 619 → captured 47 +229 / +22

Roughly 31 new sessions reached checkout this period and the completion step rose by only 1 to 2. The cumulative end-to-end rate slipped from 1.16% to 1.14%. Whatever breaks at checkout is still breaking, and it is now the most expensive open problem on the account. Deliverable D1 targets exactly this and has not been actioned. Move it to the top.

The indicators path still converts better than the homepage path (1.61% against 1.14%). Point acquisition at product pages. The exit-popup flow works and pulled 22 new captures.

3. Backlinks — spam creep

Total backlinks rose 136 to 141, but every one of the four new referring domains is scraper spam. Real authority is unchanged because no partner ask has been sent.

Gained this weekSpamFirst seen
betwinnermirror.com702026-08-17
quero.party502026-08-16
betulcrime.com602026-08-15
homesforsaleoldgreenwichct.com702026-08-11

The spammy-domain count climbed from 12 to 16. That is the trigger the baseline set. One week is not a trend, but if next week adds more of these, open a disavow file. Dofollow share edged up to 29.8%. Effective clean dofollow links remain roughly 20.

4. Build links — still not sent

No partner link landed this week. The two Tier 1 asks are drafted and ready in the 10 Aug deliverables folder. They are the only work that moves real equity, and they need no content.

Send the prop-firm partner askTier 1 · dofollow

Tradeify, Apex Trader Funding and Lucid Trading. One email, three recipients, drafted and compliance-checked. See deliverable D7.

Solves: dofollow share 29.8% and top-3 concentration 64.5%

Send the TTrades reciprocalTier 1 · dofollow

Co-built the Fractal Model, no link either way. Same-day job with a warm partner. Message drafted. See deliverable D8.

Solves: dofollow equity plus relevance on a term you rank for

5. Ship this week

Diagnose the checkout drop-offP0 · worsening

The completion step got worse this week. Highest leverage on the account. Watch checkout session replays and ship one fix. Deliverable D1.

Send the two Tier 1 link asksLinks

Drafted and ready. The only equity movers. Deliverables D7 and D8.

Fix robots.txt and noindex private pagesTechnical

Also resolves the landing-page disallow contradiction above. Deliverable D3.

Merge the 5 duplicate blog pairsQuick win

Cheapest ranking gain, still unshipped. Deliverable D4.

Connect Google Search ConsoleMeasurement

Largest measurement gap. Vietnam is now a top-5 market with zero query visibility. Deliverable D2.

6. Watch