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Bay Street Photo + Video

Bay Street Photo + Video has a real local signal. Title tags, meta, and contact details all point to Spokane — that part is working. But for "photographer spokane," they're outside the top 10, sitting behind kcengland.com, Yelp, and Instagram. Fifth out of six audited local photographers. That's the gap. The report identifies two mechanics driving the ranking deficit. First: no structured data on the page. JSON-LD tells Google explicitly what the business is, where it operates, and what it offers — without it, the site relies on Google inferring those facts on its own. Second: eight separate H1 tags across the site, where there should be one per page. Google uses H1s to identify a page's primary topic. Eight competing signals dilute that signal down to noise. The 42 reviews and 5-star profile rating are a real asset. That's the foundation. What the report shows next is exactly which technical fixes close the gap between a strong local signal and a top-10 rank.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Bay Street Photo + Video doesn't appear in the top 10 for photographer spokane

That's the single highest-impact visibility gap in this report. The three sites that dorank are listed below — what they do, what you don't.

What the Top 3 Do That Bay Street Photo + Video Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “photographer spokane
#1
kcengland.com
KC England Photography | Spokane Photographer
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit kcengland.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 Photographers in SPOKANE, WA
A national directory in your top 3 means Google can't find enough strong local sites to fill the SERP. That's an opening — your audit-grade site can outrank it with the right local signals.
#3
instagram.com· directory
Spokane Photographer (@kcenglandphotography)
A national directory in your top 3 means Google can't find enough strong local sites to fill the SERP. That's an opening — your audit-grade site can outrank it with the right local signals.

Audited values come from our Spokane dataset of > 40 local sites. Where a competitor is a national directory (Yelp, Reddit, etc.) we mark it as such — the signal is that those showed up in your local SERP at all, which is its own diagnosis.

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2Your Spokane Signal

Local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Localized — room to tighten
75/100

Strong Spokane signal — title, meta, and contact details all anchor the site locally.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Spokane Newborn and Wedding photographer and videographer"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Serving Spokane brides & moms with timeless wedding and newborn photo…"
Local cities / neighborhoods mentioned
No Spokane neighborhoods, Spokane Valley, or surrounding cities mentioned.
509 area code present
No 509 phone number in title/meta — moving it onsite gives Google a structured local cue.

3How the Audit Scores It

Composite — supporting signal
65
Score · 100 point composite
Behind the curve
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured May 30, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

1 critical · 2 material · 2 polish
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Critical
No structured data (JSON-LD) on page
Google relies on structured data to understand local business information.
Fix:
Material
Multiple H1 tags (8)
Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers.
Fix:
Material
Lighthouse SEO score below 90
Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 83/100.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (161 chars)
Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters.
Fix:
Polish
No Twitter Card meta tags
Twitter Card tags control share previews on X/Twitter.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

4 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks photographer by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Photographerswe've audited
Rank 5 of 7
#1
Heads and Tails Photography
headsandtailsphoto.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
83
/ 100
#2
Jaime Denise Photography
jaimedenisephotography.com
81
/ 100
#3
With Love, Heather
withlove-heather.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
72
/ 100
#4
Crystal Madsen Photography
crystalmadsen.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
67
/ 100
#5
You
Bay Street Photo + Video
baystphoto.com
Gap to #4: +2 points · Gap to #1: +18
65
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance57 /100
SEO83 /100
Accessibility77 /100
Best practices77 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews42
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag57 chars
Meta description161 chars
H1 count8
Images / missing alt0 / 0
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes

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Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
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