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Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory

Hennessey ranks #1 in the local pack for "funeral home Spokane." That's a real position to hold. In the organic results, though, Ripplinger and Heritage both sit above this site. The gap isn't reviews — a 4.9 with 196 ratings is strong. It's structural. The page has no H1 tag, which means Google is reading the page without its clearest signal for what that page is about. Local anchoring is solid. Title, meta, and contact details all tie the site to Spokane consistently. Second out of seven audited funeral homes in the city. Close to the top. One missing element separating it from first. The report below shows exactly where the H1 fits, what the organic competitors have that this page doesn't, and what fixing it is likely to move.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory ranks #1 in the local pack
for funeral home spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: hennesseyondivision.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 Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “funeral home spokane
#1
riplingerfuneralhome.com
Riplinger Funeral Home & Crematory | Spokane, WA
score82/100
PSI mobile
67/100
Reviews
23
Rating
5.0/5
Schema
None
#2
heritagefunerals.com
Heritage Funeral & Cremation | Spokane, WA
score95/100
PSI mobile
64/100
Reviews
91
Rating
4.6/5
Schema
Full NAP
#3
hennesseyfh.com
Hennessey Funeral Home Spokane, WA
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit hennesseyfh.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
Localized — room to tighten
75/100

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

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Hennessey Funeral Home Spokane, WA"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Personalized funerals, cremation, and burial services in Spokane Vall…"
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
87
Score · 100 point composite
Strong
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 H1 tag on page
Every page should have exactly one H1.
Fix:
Polish
No canonical tag
Self-referential canonical tags prevent duplicate content issues from tracking parameters.
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 funeral-home by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Funeral Homeswe've audited
Rank 2 of 7
#1
Heritage Funeral & Cremation
heritagefunerals.com
Does what you don't: Has a clear H1
95
/ 100
#2
You
Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory
hennesseyondivision.com
Gap to #1: +8 points
87
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance56 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility95 /100
Best practices100 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.9 / 5
Reviews196
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemayes
On-page & discovery
Title tag34 chars
Meta description139 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt0 / 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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