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Maverick Johnston at Guardian Mortgage

Maverick ranks outside the top 10 for "mortgage broker Spokane." Three competitors sit above him — jasonpaullhomeloans.com, catlincapital.com, and becu.org. That's the gap. The localization is solid. Title tags, meta, and contact details all anchor the site to Spokane, which earns a 75/100 signal score. That foundation is real. But the page has no structured data — no JSON-LD telling Google what this business is, where it operates, and what it does. Google is guessing instead of reading. Mobile performance is slow. Search engines penalize that directly in rankings. Four of nine images are also missing alt text, which compounds the crawl signal problem. The 5-star rating with 35 reviews is a legitimate trust asset. It's not showing up in search results the way it could because there's no schema markup wiring it to the listing. This report shows exactly where to close those gaps — starting with structured data and page speed.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Maverick Johnston at Guardian Mortgage doesn't appear in the top 10 for mortgage broker spokane

That's the single highest-impact visibility gap in this report. The three sites that dorank are listed below — what they do, what you don't.

What the Top 3 Do That Maverick Johnston at Guardian Mortgage Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “mortgage broker spokane
#1
jasonpaullhomeloans.com
Home - Jason Paull Home Loans
score84/100
PSI mobile
72/100
Reviews
225
Rating
5.0/5
Schema
None
#2
catlincapital.com
Spokane Mortgage Broker – WA, ID, OR, CA, CO, NM ...
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit catlincapital.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#3
becu.org
BECU in Spokane Valley, WA – Home Loan Center
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit becu.org 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: "Maverick Johnston | Mortgage Loan Originator Spokane, WA | Sunflower …"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Maverick Johnston is a Sunflower Bank Mortgage Loan Originator in Spo…"
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
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 May 30, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

2 critical · 1 material · 2 polish
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Critical
No structured data (JSON-LD) on page
Google relies on structured data to understand local business information.
Fix:
Critical
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 42/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (4/9)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too long (73 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
Polish
No Twitter Card meta tags
Twitter Card tags control share previews on X/Twitter.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

5 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks mortgage-broker by composite audit score, across the 8 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Mortgage Brokerswe've audited
Rank 6 of 8
#1
Q Home Loans
qhomeloans.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
87
/ 100
#2
Jason Paull Team | Fairway Home Mortgage
jasonpaullhomeloans.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
84
/ 100
#3
Mike Pankey Mortgage Advisor - NMLS 718905
mikepankey.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
72
/ 100
#4
Adam Noone at CrossCountry Mortgage
ccm.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
70
/ 100
#5
Modus Mortgage
modusmortgage.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
69
/ 100
#6
You
Maverick Johnston at Guardian Mortgage
mortgagemav.com
Gap to #5: +4 points · Gap to #1: +22
65
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance42 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility91 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews35
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag73 chars
Meta description146 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt9 / 4
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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