Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Free Range Boarding

Ranking #1 organic for "pet boarding kennel spokane" is a real result. Most businesses in this category aren't close. But the local pack tells a different story — you're sitting at #2, and that gap has a specific cause. Two structural signals are missing. No LocalBusiness schema means Google is inferring what your business is, rather than reading it directly. No H1 tag means the page's primary ranking signal is absent. These aren't aesthetic issues — they're how search engines confirm what a page is about. Seven of your sixteen images have no alt text. That compounds the signal gap. Your Google Business Profile is working. A 4.8 rating across 122 reviews is a strong trust anchor, and your localization score of 75/100 shows the site is properly grounded in Spokane across title, meta, and contact data. That's the foundation. Among eight audited Spokane pet-boarding sites, you rank third overall. This report shows exactly what's between you and the top spot.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Free Range Boarding ranks #1 organic · #2 in the local pack
for pet boarding kennel spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: freerangeboarding.com'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 Free Range Boarding Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “pet boarding kennel spokane
#1
freerangeboarding.comYou
Free Range Boarding | Dog Boarding | Spokane, WA
score75/100
PSI mobile
50/100
Reviews
122
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#2
playnstay.com
Play N Stay
score68/100
PSI mobile
52/100
Reviews
407
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#3
marcindakennels.com
Marcinda Kennel Home - Pet Boarding | Spokane, WA ...
score72/100
PSI mobile
76/100
Reviews
60
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
Partial

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: "Free Range Boarding | Dog Boarding | Spokane, WA"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Free Range Boarding provides the vacation your dog would plan if he c…"
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
75
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 31, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

2 critical · 1 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:
Critical
No H1 tag on page
Every page should have exactly one H1.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (7/16)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (295 chars)
Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

2 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks pet-boarding by composite audit score, across the 8 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Pet Boardingwe've audited
Rank 3 of 8
#1
Paradise Pet Resort
paradisepetresort.pet
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
82
/ 100
#2
Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare
updawgpethotel.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
79
/ 100
#3
You
Free Range Boarding
freerangeboarding.com
Gap to #2: +4 points · Gap to #1: +7
75
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance50 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility100 /100
Best practices92 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews122
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag48 chars
Meta description295 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt16 / 7
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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