A Catered Affair
Ranking #1 for "best catering company spokane" is real. That's a strong position. But the audit puts A Catered Affair 7th out of 8 Spokane catering sites on overall SEO health — which means that #1 rank is sitting on a fragile foundation. No Google Business Profile. No LocalBusiness schema. No H1 tag. No meta description. Google is filling in the blanks itself, and that's not a situation you want to depend on. The core problem is signal gap. Your title names Spokane; almost nothing else does. At 45/100 on localization, the page isn't reinforcing what the ranking already implies. The report below shows exactly which fixes move the needle first.
1Your Spokane Standing
#8 of 8That's the bottom third of the field. The sites above you aren't doing anything exotic — they're doing the basics, and you can see the score gap below.
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Composite score blends on-page, reputation, and local-search signals. Full methodology at /data.
This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Catering we track, captured and time-stamped. The gaps below are your position inside it.
2Where Customers Decide
Reviews · trust signalReviews are the one ranking signal your customers read before they ever load your site. Google reads it too — review volume and rating feed the local pack directly.
Drag your review count up. We re-rank you on reviews against the same Spokane field, live — every competitor stays fixed.
You sit at #8 today. Drag the reviews up to see what the climb buys.
3Your Live Google Position
Sign in to unlockYou're not in Google's local 3-pack for Spokane Catering.
Organic #1, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.
4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs
4 costly · 2 material · 0 polishRanked by what each gap costs you, not by how a scanner flags it. The top of this list is where you're losing the call or the click today. Work down from there.
You're invisible on the map.
No Google Business Profile means you can't appear in the map results — where most local searches end. This is the single biggest miss.
Fix: Claim or create a Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Verify by postcard or phone.
Technical detail · for your developer
No Google Business Profile found — Without a GBP, the business cannot appear in the local pack — the single biggest local-SEO miss. — Claim or create a Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Verify by postcard or phone.
Google can't read your hours, services, or service area.
Without structured data, Google guesses what you do — and shows competitors it's more sure about.
Fix: Add a LocalBusiness or category-specific subtype (Restaurant,Technical detail · for your developer
No LocalBusiness schema — JSON-LD is present but no LocalBusiness (or subtype) entity is declared. Local pack ranking relies on this. — Add a LocalBusiness or category-specific subtype (Restaurant, Dentist, etc.) entity with full NAP.
Google is writing your search-result preview for you.
An empty meta description means Google grabs random page text. You're handing your first impression to an algorithm.
Fix: Add a unique meta description summarizing the pageTechnical detail · for your developer
Missing meta description — The page has no <meta name="description"> tag. — Add a unique meta description summarizing the page. Include the city and primary service.
Your page never says what it's about.
The main heading tells Google and the visitor what this page does. With none, both have to guess — and guessing costs you the ranking.
Fix: Add a single descriptive H1 to the page with the primary keywordTechnical detail · for your developer
No H1 tag on page — Every page should have exactly one H1. — Add a single descriptive H1 to the page with the primary keyword.
Your photos are invisible to Google.
Without descriptions, your images can't show up in image search and screen readers skip them. That's reach you're not getting.
Fix: Audit content images and add descriptive alt textTechnical detail · for your developer
Most images missing alt text (6/8) — Image alt coverage is below 70%. — Audit content images and add descriptive alt text. Use empty alt='' only for decorative images.
Google's own checklist is flagging your pages.
Google runs an automated scorecard on every page. Failing items are easy points you're handing to competitors who pass them.
Fix: Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, metaTechnical detail · for your developer
Lighthouse SEO score below 90 — Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 85/100. — Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, meta description, crawlable links, valid hreflang.
These fixes are doable in-house — but if you'd rather hand them off, August SEO works with Spokane businesses on exactly this. No pitch, no pressure. Just say the word.
You don't have to close this gap alone.
You've seen exactly what's costing you. Hand us the top three and we ship the fixes, then prove the move with a re-run of this same audit.
- We fix your three highest-leverage gaps — schema, Google Business Profile, and on-page
- We re-run your audit and show you the score move
- One Spokane business per vertical — we don't work with your competitors
One operator, one client per vertical. If we're already working with a competitor in your space, we'll tell you straight.
See who's beating you — and the exact fix for each gap.
The diagnosis above is free. The named competitors, your live Google position, and the specific fix for each finding unlock with a single Google sign-in. No card, no pitch, no spam — one human reads replies.
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›Full Technical Detail
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At a typical 2% inquiry rate, that 534-search gap is about
This is Largest Contentful Paint — the moment your main content actually appears on a phone. Google's bar for “good” is 2.5s. Past it, visitors leave before the page finishes, and Google ranks you lower for it.
Your title names Spokane, but the meta description doesn't reinforce it.