Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Josselyn Peterson

65
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 June 19, 2026.

1Your Spokane Standing

#7 of 8
The Standing
Josselyn Peterson ranks #7 of 8 Photographers we track in Spokane.

That's the bottom third of the field. The sites above you aren't doing anything exotic — they're doing the basics, and you can see the score gap below.

Rank
Business
1
Heads and Tails Photography· leader
95201 rev5.0
2
Spokane competitor
93152 rev5.0
3
Spokane competitor
8247 rev4.9
4
Spokane competitor
79101 rev5.0
5
Spokane competitor
7442 rev5.0
6
Spokane competitor
6762 rev5.0
7
You
65 rev
8
Spokane competitor
6451 rev5.0

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Composite score blends on-page, reputation, and local-search signals. Full methodology at /data.

The Spokane Photographers field
7 tracked · snapshot July 20, 2026
Median audit score
67field
65
Have LocalBusiness schema
29%field
you do
Median Google reviews
62field
Median mobile load
6.3sfield
4.6s

This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Photographers we track, captured and time-stamped. The gaps below are your position inside it.

2Where Customers Decide

Reviews · trust signal
The Signal Customers Actually Check
Your review footprint is invisible on the signal customers check first.

Reviews are the one ranking signal your customers read before they ever load your site. Google reads it too — review volume and rating feed the local pack directly.

Where You Sit on Spokane Photographers Reviews
median 62
201
floor 42
Heads and Tails Photography
You
reviews
no rating on file
Category leader · Heads and Tails Photography
201reviews
the bar to clear
You need 62 more reviews just to reach the Spokane median for Photographers. That's not the top — that's the middle. The local pack is sorted on signals like this one.
Move Me to #1
Live · against the real Spokane field

Drag your review count up. We re-rank you on reviews against the same Spokane field, live — every competitor stays fixed.

Your reviews
0
Review rank
#8of 8
0 nowleader Heads and Tails Photography · 201

You sit at #8 today. Drag the reviews up to see what the climb buys.

3Your Live Google Position

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The local pack · locked

You're not in Google's local 3-pack for Spokane Photographers.

Organic #3, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#3Josselyn Petersonnot in pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

1 costly · 3 material · 1 polish

Ranked by what each gap costs you, not by how a scanner flags it. The top of this list is where you're losing the call or the click today. Work down from there.

  1. You're invisible on the map.

    No Google Business Profile means you can't appear in the map results — where most local searches end. This is the single biggest miss.

    Fix: Claim or create a Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Verify by postcard or phone.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Google Business Profile found — Without a GBP, the business cannot appear in the local pack — the single biggest local-SEO miss. — Claim or create a Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Verify by postcard or phone.

  2. You're just below the three businesses that get the calls.

    The top three map results take most of the clicks. You're close — close enough that reviews and a few fixes can move you in.

    Fix: Strengthen NAP consistency across citations, build reviews, and
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Ranking #6 for the primary organic query — Positions 4–7 sit below the top organic results, where the first three capture most of the clicks. — Strengthen NAP consistency across citations, build reviews, and add LocalBusiness schema if missing.

  3. Your address and phone aren't where Google looks for them.

    The local pack runs on matching name, address, and phone. A gap here is a reason to rank the shop next door instead.

    Fix: Fill in streetAddress, addressLocality, postalCode, and
    Technical detail · for your developer

    LocalBusiness schema is incomplete — Address or phone is missing from the LocalBusiness schema — both are required for the local pack signal. — Fill in streetAddress, addressLocality, postalCode, and telephone in the LocalBusiness JSON-LD block.

  4. Your page sends Google mixed signals about its topic.

    Several competing headings dilute the point. Google can't tell what the page is for, so it ranks you for less.

    Fix: Keep only one H1
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Multiple H1 tags (2) — Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers. — Keep only one H1; convert the rest to H2/H3 as appropriate.

  5. Your search preview is the wrong length to read.

    Too short says nothing; too long gets clipped. The preview is your pitch — make it land in the space you get.

    Fix: Rewrite the meta description with a concrete benefit and local
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Meta description is too long (332 chars) — Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters. — Rewrite the meta description with a concrete benefit and local keyword. Target ~150 characters.

Want Expert Help With These Issues?

These fixes are doable in-house — but if you'd rather hand them off, August SEO works with Spokane businesses on exactly this. No pitch, no pressure. Just say the word.

Top 3 Fixes Sprint · the next step

You don't have to close this gap alone.

You've seen exactly what's costing you. Hand us the top three and we ship the fixes, then prove the move with a re-run of this same audit.

  • We fix your three highest-leverage gaps — schema, Google Business Profile, and on-page
  • We re-run your audit and show you the score move
  • One Spokane business per vertical — we don't work with your competitors
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See who's beating you — and the exact fix for each gap.

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Full Technical Detail

Authority · trajectory · load · raw signals
Organic authority · searches you're not getting
Authority & organic traffic
The leader in your vertical pulls about 3,700 searches a month.

That's roughly 74 inbound leadsa month from organic search alone. We haven't mapped Josselyn Peterson's own authority yet, so we can't draw the gap — but the ceiling for this market is right there.

Mobile load · field metric
The Wait Before Anything Loads
On a phone, visitors wait 4.6 seconds for your page — slower than 1 Spokane competitor.

This is Largest Contentful Paint — the moment your main content actually appears on a phone. Google's bar for “good” is 2.5s. Past it, visitors leave before the page finishes, and Google ranks you lower for it.

Mobile load time across Spokane Photographers
good 2.5s
median 6.3s
0s
Crystal Madsen Photography
you 4.6s
You
4.6s
2.1s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Crystal Madsen Photography
3.0s
1.6s faster than you
1 of 7 Spokane Photographers we measured load faster than you. On mobile, every second past the 2.5s bar costs visitors before they ever see your offer — and Google folds that wait straight into your ranking.
Layout shift (CLS)0.00
Spokane signal · local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Strong local anchor
85/100

Strong Spokane signal — your title and meta both name the city to Google.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Josselyn Peterson | Spokane, Washington Photographer"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Josselyn Peterson a Photographer in Spokane Washington. Josselyn spec…"
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance54 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility91 /100
Best practices58 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)4.6 s
CLS (shift)0.00
INP (response)
Google Business Profile
Profile existsno
Rating
Reviews
Hours publishedno
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag52 chars
Meta description332 chars
H1 count2
Images / missing alt150 / 2
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
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