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Heads and Tails Photography

Heads and Tails leads the audited field. Rank 1 of 7 Spokane photographers in this audit, a 95/100 localization score, 201 reviews at a 5-star average — that foundation is real. But "photographer spokane" isn't returning them in the top 10. KC England holds the top organic spot. Yelp and Instagram sit at #2 and #3, which means two of the first three results are directory and social pages, not direct competitors. That's a surmountable gap, not a structural wall. The clearest technical issue the audit found: 16 H1 tags on the site. Google uses H1 to read what a page is about. One page, one H1 — that's the rule. Sixteen creates ambiguity about what Heads and Tails actually wants to rank for. Fix that, and the strong local signals already in place have a cleaner path to work. The report below shows exactly where those H1 conflicts sit, how the site scores across every ranking factor, and where the distance to page one is smallest.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Heads and Tails Photography doesn't appear in the top 10 for photographer 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 Heads and Tails Photography Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “photographer spokane
#1
kcengland.com
KC England Photography | Spokane Photographer
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit kcengland.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 Photographers 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.
#3
instagram.com· directory
Spokane Photographer (@kcenglandphotography)
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 headsandtailsphoto.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
Strong local anchor
95/100

Strong Spokane signal — title, meta, and contact details all anchor the site locally.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Spokane Headshots, Pin-Ups, and Business Photography ⋆ Spokane Headsh…"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Heads and Tails Photography is Spokane's best resource for profession…"
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
83
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

0 critical · 1 material · 1 polish
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Material
Multiple H1 tags (16)
Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too long (85 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

Top of pack

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks photographer by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

You're on top

Among Spokane Photographers we've audited, Heads and Tails Photographyis 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)
Performance63 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility83 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews201
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemayes
On-page & discovery
Title tag85 chars
Meta description114 chars
H1 count16
Images / missing alt42 / 0
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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