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Holy Cross Funeral Home

Fifth place on "funeral home spokane." Three competitors sit above them. Rippling Funeral Home, Heritage Funerals, and Hennessey hold the top three spots — and the structural reasons are visible in the data. Holy Cross has no H1 tag on its homepage, no LocalBusiness schema, and slow mobile load times. Google can't confirm what the page is or where it serves. That's the gap. The localization score is 40 out of 100. The page title names Spokane, but the meta description and contact signals don't reinforce it. Thin supporting signals mean thin geographic authority. Two Google reviews. A 5-star rating on two reviews doesn't carry weight the way volume does — search engines treat review count as a trust signal, not just star rating. This report maps the specific fixes: schema markup, on-page structure, and citation depth. Start there and the ranking gap closes mechanically, not mysteriously.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Holy Cross Funeral Home ranks #5 organic
for funeral home spokane

On page one but below the local pack. Roughly 70% of clicks for this kind of query go to the 3-pack, so moving from organic #5 into local-pack #1–3 is the highest-leverage shift here.

What the Top 3 Do That Holy Cross Funeral Home 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
Partial signal — not enough
40/100

Title mentions Spokane, but supporting signals (meta description, contact info) are thin.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Holy Cross Funeral and Cemetery Services | Spokane, WA"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Holy Cross offers compassionate funeral & cemetery services. Contact …"
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
67
Score · 100 point composite
Behind the curve
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

3 critical · 1 material · 0 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:
Critical
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 40/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor.
Fix:
Material
Only 2 Google reviews
Review count is a strong local-pack ranking signal. Most local pack winners have 50+ reviews.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

6 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 7 of 7
#1
Heritage Funeral & Cremation
heritagefunerals.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
95
/ 100
#2
Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory
hennesseyondivision.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
87
/ 100
#3
Pacific NW Cremation & Funeral
pnwcremation.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
84
/ 100
#4
Riplinger Funeral Home & Cremation
riplingerfuneralhome.com
Does what you don't: Has a clear H1
82
/ 100
#5
Spokane Cremation & Funeral Service
spokanecremation.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
81
/ 100
#6
Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services – South Hill
dignitymemorial.com
Does what you don't: Has a clear H1
76
/ 100
#7
You
Holy Cross Funeral Home
holycrossofspokane.org
Gap to #6: +9 points · Gap to #1: +28
67
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance40 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility90 /100
Best practices100 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews2
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag54 chars
Meta description120 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt6 / 0
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes

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Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
Report cmpsic63 · 2026-05-30