Bellwether Brewing
Ranking #1 for "brewery taproom spokane" is real traction. Not every business gets there. But the site scores 5th out of 7 audited Spokane breweries overall. That gap lives in the technical foundation, not the content. Three things are doing the most damage. No meta description. No H1 tag. And the homepage title and meta don't mention Spokane once — so Google is inferring your location instead of reading it. Zero out of 100 on localization signal. That's the gap. Mobile load speed compounds it: slow pages lose rankings before a visitor ever decides anything. The LocalBusiness schema is also incomplete, which limits how Google displays your information in local results. The GBP shows a 5-star rating on 18 reviews — a clean signal worth protecting and building on. This report shows exactly which fixes move the composite score and close the distance on the four breweries ranked above you.
1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane
1 cached queryTop-3 organic on this query — strong. The local pack typically sits above organic in mobile results, so the next jump is appearing in the 3-pack.
What the Top 3 Do That Bellwether Brewing Doesn't
Organic top 3 · “brewery taproom spokane”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.
Your Full Spokane Keyword Footprint
Beyond the three queries above — see where bellwetherbrewing.netranks across neighborhood and modifier long-tail (“south hill,” “affordable,” “near me,” and more). One free deep profile, yours to keep.
2Your Spokane Signal
Local-anchor auditNo Spokane signal in the homepage title or meta description. The site doesn't tell Google where it operates.
3How the Audit Scores It
Composite — supporting signal4Diagnosis & Prescription
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited
4 above youA separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks brewery by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.
6Raw Signals
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