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Incognito - Aveda Concept Salon & Spa

Ranking #2 in the local pack is real traction. But two of the three spots above Incognito are directory listings — Yelp and a competitor — which means the gap to #1 is closeable. The audit score is 79/100. Solid foundation. The clearest drag is a localization signal of 25/100. Google reads your page title first, and right now it doesn't anchor Spokane. That's a fast fix with an outsized effect on local ranking. No LocalBusiness schema means Google is inferring your category and location rather than reading it directly. Add the schema, and the inference disappears. Eight of 21 images are missing alt text, and mobile load speed is lagging — both hurt ranking and drive away visitors who don't wait. The report below maps each gap to the specific element that needs to change, ordered by impact.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

3 cached queries
Primary commercial query · May 25, 2026
Incognito - Aveda Concept Salon & Spa ranks #2 in the local pack
for hair salon near me spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: incognitosalonandspa.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 Incognito - Aveda Concept Salon & Spa Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “hair salon near me spokane
#1
yelp.com· directory
Top 10 Best Hair Salons Near Spokane, Washington
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.
#2
lavishspokane.com
Lavish Salon - Spokane
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit lavishspokane.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#3
lucidroom.salon
Lucid Room | Editorial-Inspired Hair Salon in Downtown ...
score84/100
PSI mobile
48/100
Reviews
1,858
Rating
4.9/5
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.

Other Queries in Your Vertical
best hair salon spokane
Local pack #3
Top: lavishspokane.com · jaazzsalon.com · reddit.com
hair salon spokane
Local pack #3
Top: lavishspokane.com · jaazzsalon.com · reddit.com
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2Your Spokane Signal

Local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Site doesn't say it's in Spokane
25/100

Some Spokane signal present, but the page title doesn't anchor the location. Google reads title first.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Incognito"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "The place to be uniquely you. An Aveda Concept Salon and Spa serving …"
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
79
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 25, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

1 critical · 2 material · 2 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:
Material
Most images missing alt text (8/21)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Material
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 30/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too short (9 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (178 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 salon by composite audit score, across the 4 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Hair Salonswe've audited
Rank 3 of 4
#1
Lucid Room
lucidroom.salon
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
84
/ 100
#2
Heartbreaker Studio
heartbreakerstudio.shop
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
80
/ 100
#3
You
Incognito - Aveda Concept Salon & Spa
incognitosalonandspa.com
Gap to #2: +1 points · Gap to #1: +5
79
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance30 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility95 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews463
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag9 chars
Meta description178 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt21 / 8
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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