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St. Anne's Child & Family Center

cceasternwa.org·Daycare·Spokane, WA

Local pack is locked. Organic is close, not there yet. For "child care center spokane," St. Anne's sits fifth in organic results — behind YMCA, Spokane Child Development Center, and Yelp. The local pack ranking is genuinely strong. But the organic gap is structural, not a content problem. Two signals are doing the most damage. The homepage has no H1 tag, so Google has no primary heading to anchor the page's topic. And the title and meta description contain zero Spokane-specific language — the site doesn't tell Google where it operates. That's a fixable gap. The 4.9 rating across 17 reviews is real trust. The LocalBusiness schema is incomplete, meaning that trust isn't fully readable to search engines. This report shows exactly where those structural gaps sit and what closing them looks like.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
St. Anne's Child & Family Center ranks #5 organic · #1 in the local pack
for child care center spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: cceasternwa.org's GBP and on-site signals need to stay clean so Google has no reason to swap you out.

What the Top 3 Do That St. Anne's Child & Family Center Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “child care center spokane
#1
ymcainw.org
Enhance Your Child's Skills With Quality Child Care
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit ymcainw.org and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
spokanechilddevelopmentcenter.com
Spokane Child Development Center | Childcare center | 3120 ...
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit spokanechilddevelopmentcenter.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#3
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 CHILD CARE & DAY CARE 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.

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
Site doesn't say it's in Spokane
0/100

No Spokane signal in the homepage title or meta description. The site doesn't tell Google where it operates.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Catholic Charities Eastern Washington"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Catholic Charities serves the most vulnerable individuals and familie…"
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 · 1 material · 1 polish
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Critical
No H1 tag on page
Every page should have exactly one H1.
Fix:
Material
LocalBusiness schema is incomplete
Address or phone is missing from the LocalBusiness schema — both are required for the local pack signal.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (284 chars)
Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

1 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks daycare by composite audit score, across the 6 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Daycarewe've audited
Rank 2 of 6
#1
Ascend To the Heights Child Development
ascendtotheheights.com
Does what you don't: Has a clear H1
80
/ 100
#2
You
St. Anne's Child & Family Center
cceasternwa.org
Gap to #1: +4 points
76
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance63 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility86 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.9 / 5
Reviews17
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag37 chars
Meta description284 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt71 / 2
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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