ranking keywords, January to August 2026
From 30 ranking keywords to 107, with five times more terms on Google's first page.
Illustration. Positions from Ubersuggest position tracking, 30 Sep 2026.
Full-width screenshot of the modern-homeimprovement.com homepage
Modern Home Improvement had a solid reputation offline, but its site was not built to rank. Service pages targeted Cypress only, even though Cypress is the smallest remodeling market in the area.
Search volume for kitchen and bathroom remodeling in Spring is roughly ten times higher than in Cypress, and the site had no page built for it.
Screenshot of modern-homeimprovement.com before the work started (the Wayback Machine keeps old versions)
Gray dots were ranking in January 2026. Blue dots are the keywords added by August 2026.
Rebuilt the silo structure so every service has one clear page, and moved service URLs to short, clean slugs such as /kitchen-remodeling-cypress-tx/.
New service pages for kitchen cabinet refacing, walk-in shower conversion, storm damage roof repair, room additions and outdoor kitchens.
Added service area pages for The Woodlands, Fulshear and Cinco Ranch.
A full Search Console and Ubersuggest audit in August 2026, a competitor gap analysis, and a 136-keyword cluster map that assigns every target term to one page with volume, difficulty and priority.
Kitchen Remodeling Spring TX, Bathroom Remodeling Spring TX, a Home Remodeling The Woodlands hub and Kitchen Remodeling The Woodlands. Each one is written around what makes that city different (housing eras, permitting, HOA review), not a city-name swap.
Rebuilt the Cypress kitchen remodeling page to fix conflicting pricing and stop it competing with stronger pages.
Google Business Profile audits, a citation-building list, and an HTML sitemap kept in sync with the live XML sitemap.
Switched all reporting to US-only data so the numbers reflect real customers.
US data from Ubersuggest, the same source for both columns.
| Metric | Jan 2026 | Aug 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking keywords | 30 | 107 | +77 |
| Keywords in positions 1 to 10 | 3 | 15 | +12 |
| Keywords in positions 11 to 50 | 4 | 45 | +41 |
| Domain Authority | 12 Aug audit | 13 | +1 |
| Referring domains | 135 Aug audit | 162 | +27 |
Thirteen tracked keywords sit on page one. The Houston kitchen cost guide holds four of them on its own, and the rebuilt Cypress kitchen page ranks #4 for custom cabinetry contractors.
| Keyword | Position | Monthly searches | Ranking page |
|---|---|---|---|
| custom cabinetry installation contractors cypress tx | #4 | Low | Kitchen remodeling Cypress TX |
| general contractor cypress tx | #4 | 30 | Homepage |
| kitchen renovation cypress tx | #5 | Low | Homepage |
| home remodeling cypress | #5 | 70 | Homepage |
| kitchen remodel houston cost | #6 | 40 | Houston kitchen remodeling cost guide |
| kitchen remodel cost houston | #6 | 40 | Houston kitchen remodeling cost guide |
| floor contractors cypress tx | #7 | Low | Flooring installation Cypress TX |
| modern home remodeling | #7 | 210 | Homepage |
| kitchen remodeling cypress | #7 | 30 | Homepage |
| kitchen renovation cost houston | #8 | 40 | Houston kitchen remodeling cost guide |
| bathroom renovation cypress | #9 | Low | Homepage |
| kitchen remodeling houston cost | #10 | 40 | Houston kitchen remodeling cost guide |
| bathroom remodeling cypress tx | #10 | 140 | Homepage |
Positions from Ubersuggest position tracking, 30 Sep 2026. Rankings move from week to week. Keyword and authority data from Ubersuggest (US). Search volumes are estimates.
We started tracking AI answers for Modern Home Improvement & Remodeling in September 2026. So far ChatGPT has answered 5 of the tracked prompts and named the business in 1 of them, without being asked about it by name.
The Spring and The Woodlands pages went live in September 2026. These are the terms they are built to win. We'll add their positions once rankings settle.
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