Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Lincoln Heights Veterinary Clinic

66
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 July 11, 2026.

1Your Spokane Standing

#5 of 6
The Standing
Lincoln Heights Veterinary Clinic ranks #5 of 6 Veterinary 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
Hunter Veterinary Clinic· leader
95847 rev4.4
2
Spokane competitor
9060 rev3.9
3
Spokane competitor
811,603 rev4.6
4
Spokane competitor
78349 rev4.2
5
You
76297 rev4.8
6
Spokane competitor
72424 rev4.7

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

The Spokane Veterinary field
5 tracked · snapshot July 20, 2026
Median audit score
68field
66
Have LocalBusiness schema
40%field
you don't
Median Google reviews
424field
297
Median mobile load
10.3sfield
3.0s

This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Veterinary 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
You're 4 spots back on the signal customers actually check.

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 Veterinary Reviews
median 424
1,603
floor 60
Garland Animal Clinic
you 297
You
297reviews
4.8★ rating
Category leader · Garland Animal Clinic
1,603reviews
1,306 ahead of you
You need 127 more reviews just to reach the Spokane median for Veterinary. 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
297
Review rank
#5of 6
297 nowleader Garland Animal Clinic · 1,603

You sit at #5 today. Drag the reviews up to see what the climb buys.

3Your Live Google Position

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The local pack · you're in it

You're in Google's 3-pack for Spokane Veterinary — at #2.

Good. But the business above you take the call first. See who, and the move that flips it.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#2Lincoln Heights Veterinary Clinicin the pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

2 costly · 2 material · 3 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. Google is guessing what your business is.

    Structured data is how you tell Google your name, address, and what you sell. Without it, Google infers — and it trusts the competitors it's sure about.

    Fix: Add a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with NAP (name, address, phone), opening hours, and primary category.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    No structured data (JSON-LD) on page — Google relies on structured data to understand local business information. — Add a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with NAP (name, address, phone), opening hours, and primary category.

  2. Your page never says what it's about.

    The main heading tells Google and the visitor what this page does. With none, both have to guess — and guessing costs you the ranking.

    Fix: Add a single descriptive H1 to the page with the primary keyword
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No H1 tag on page — Every page should have exactly one H1. — Add a single descriptive H1 to the page with the primary keyword.

  3. Your photos are invisible to Google.

    Without descriptions, your images can't show up in image search and screen readers skip them. That's reach you're not getting.

    Fix: Audit content images and add descriptive alt text
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Most images missing alt text (11/24) — Image alt coverage is below 70%. — Audit content images and add descriptive alt text. Use empty alt='' only for decorative images.

  4. You're not pointing Google to your pages.

    A robots file is the front door for search crawlers. Without it, Google can miss pages — and the sitemap that lists them.

    Fix: Add a /robots
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No robots.txt file — Search engines look for /robots.txt to discover sitemap location and crawl directives. — Add a /robots.txt file. At minimum, include the line 'Sitemap: <your sitemap URL>'.

  5. Your links look like spam when shared.

    Paste your URL into Facebook or a text and you get a blank box. A bare link gets fewer clicks than one with a title and image.

    Fix: Add og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url meta tags to the
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Open Graph meta tags — Open Graph tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. — Add og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url meta tags to the page <head>.

  6. Your links show no preview on X.

    Shared without a card, your link is a naked URL. A preview with a headline and image earns the click; a bare link doesn't.

    Fix: Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description,
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Twitter Card meta tags — Twitter Card tags control share previews on X/Twitter. — Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image meta tags.

  7. Google may be splitting your page's credit in two.

    Tracking links and duplicate URLs can look like separate pages to Google. A canonical tag keeps all the ranking credit on one.

    Fix: Add <link rel='canonical' href='<page url>'> in the page <head>
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No canonical tag — Self-referential canonical tags prevent duplicate content issues from tracking parameters. — Add <link rel='canonical' href='<page url>'> in the page <head>.

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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 14,000 searches a month.

That's roughly 270 inbound leadsa month from organic search alone. We haven't mapped Lincoln Heights Veterinary Clinic'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 3.0 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 Veterinary
good 2.5s
median 10.3s
0s
Small Animal Internal Medicine
you 3.0s
You
3.0s
0.5s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Small Animal Internal Medicine
1.0s
2.0s faster than you
1 of 5 Spokane Veterinary 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
Partial signal — not enough
30/100

Your meta names Spokane, but the title doesn't — and Google reads the title first.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Lincoln Heights Veterinary Clinic - Home"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Spokane's Fear-Free Vet! Compassionate care for all pets (dogs, cat…"
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance94 /100
SEO91 /100
Accessibility79 /100
Best practices100 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)3.0 s
CLS (shift)0.00
INP (response)
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews297
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag40 chars
Meta description111 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt24 / 11
robots.txtno
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
Report cmrfs1dl · 2026-07-11