Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Hat Trick Brewing

Ranking #1 in the local pack for "brewery taproom spokane" is a real win. That's the hard part. But the organic results above Hat Trick's listing belong to Bellwether, Yelp, and Manito Taphouse — and the gap there is fixable. Here's why it's happening. The homepage has no meta description, four H1 tags where there should be one, and a localization score of 20 out of 100. Google can't confirm from the site itself that Hat Trick is in Spokane. The title and meta don't say it. That's the structural problem. The report also flags incomplete LocalBusiness schema and five of eight images with no alt text. Small items individually. Together they add friction every time Google crawls the page. A 4.8 rating across 78 reviews is a strong trust signal — that's working. The audit ranked Hat Trick second among seven Spokane breweries reviewed. What's inside shows exactly which fixes move the needle first.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Hat Trick Brewing ranks #1 in the local pack
for brewery taproom spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: hattrickbrewingspokane.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 Hat Trick Brewing Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “brewery taproom spokane
#1
bellwetherbrewing.net
Bellwether Brewing Co. - Spokane
score67/100
PSI mobile
48/100
Reviews
18
Rating
5.0/5
Schema
Partial
#2
yelp.com· directory
Tap Rooms Spokane, WA - Last Updated May 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.
#3
manitotaphouse.com
Manito Tap House - Spokane
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit manitotaphouse.com and run a side-by-side compare.

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
20/100

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

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Hat Trick Brewing"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta description is missing entirely.
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
78
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

1 critical · 3 material · 1 polish
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Critical
Missing meta description
The page has no <meta name="description"> tag.
Fix:
Material
LocalBusiness schema is incomplete
Address or phone is missing from the LocalBusiness schema — both are required for the local pack signal.
Fix:
Material
Multiple H1 tags (4)
Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (3/8)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too short (17 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
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 brewery by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Brewerieswe've audited
Rank 2 of 7
#1
Griffin Tavern Kitchen + Taphouse
thegriffintavern.com
Does what you don't: Has a meta description
80
/ 100
#2
You
Hat Trick Brewing
hattrickbrewingspokane.com
Gap to #1: +2 points
78
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance57 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility91 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews78
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag17 chars
Meta description0 chars
H1 count4
Images / missing alt8 / 3
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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