Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Bucks Tire Automotive Inc.

Bucks Tire scores highest among the four Spokane tire shops audited. That's real. But "tire shop spokane" isn't returning them in the top 10 — Liberty Tire, The Tire Store, and Yelp are all sitting above them. Three competitors between Bucks and the customer searching right now. The localization score is 25 out of 100. Google reads the page title before anything else on the site, and Spokane isn't anchored there. That one fix moves the needle faster than almost anything else in this report. No LocalBusiness schema either. That's structured data Google uses to confirm what a business is and where it operates — without it, the site is asking the algorithm to guess. The 4.5 stars and 108 reviews are a genuine asset. The report below shows exactly where the technical gaps are undermining signals that should already be working harder.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 31, 2026
Bucks Tire Automotive Inc. doesn't appear in the top 10 for tire shop 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 Bucks Tire Automotive Inc. Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “tire shop spokane
#1
libertytire.biz
Liberty Tire | Auto Repair & Tire Shop in Spokane, WA
score58/100
PSI mobile
33/100
Reviews
337
Rating
4.6/5
Schema
None
#2
thetirestorespokane.com
The Tire Store: Auto Repair Shop in Spokane, WA
score33/100
PSI mobile
Reviews
365
Rating
4.2/5
Schema
None
#3
yelp.com· directory
TOP 10 BEST Tire Shop in Spokane, WA - Updated 2026
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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Beyond the three queries above — see where buckstire.comranks across neighborhood and modifier long-tail (“south hill,” “affordable,” “near me,” and more). One free deep profile, yours to keep.

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2Your Spokane Signal

Local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Site doesn't say it's in Spokane
25/100

Some Spokane signal present, but the page title doesn't anchor the location. Google reads title first.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "HOME - Buck's Tire & Automotive"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Call Buck's Tire and Automotive for auto repairs. Visit us in Spokane…"
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
76
Score · 100 point composite
Solid baseline
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 · 0 material · 1 polish
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Critical
No LocalBusiness schema
JSON-LD is present but no LocalBusiness (or subtype) entity is declared. Local pack ranking relies on this.
Fix:
Polish
1 of 5 images missing alt text
Alt text helps both accessibility and image search ranking.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

Top of pack

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks tire-shop by composite audit score, across the 4 sites we've measured in this vertical.

You're on top

Among Spokane Tire Shops we've audited, Bucks Tire Automotive Inc.is the highest-scoring site. Worth defending — the rest of the report shows where the lead is durable and where it isn't.

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance76 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility100 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.5 / 5
Reviews108
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag31 chars
Meta description74 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt5 / 1
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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