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Made With Love Bakery

mwlbakery.com·Bakeries·Spokane, WA

Rank 1 of 7 audited Spokane bakeries. That's the foundation. A 4.9 rating across 192 reviews and a local pack #1 — those are real trust signals, and Google is reading them. The organic side tells a different story. On "bakery spokane," explorewashingtonstate.com, tripadvisor.com, and thegrainshed.coop all sit above mwlbakery.com. Directory and aggregator pages outranking the actual bakery is a structural problem, not a content one. Two gaps are doing most of the damage. The page title doesn't contain a Spokane location signal — Google reads the title before anything else on the page. At 45/100 on localization, that's the clearest lever available. The site also carries six H1 tags where there should be one, which splits the ranking signal Google uses to understand what the page is about. Fix those two things and the organic gap narrows fast. The report shows exactly where each one lives.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Made With Love Bakery ranks #5 organic · #1 in the local pack
for bakery spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: mwlbakery.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 Made With Love Bakery Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “bakery spokane
#1
explorewashingtonstate.com
Eight Must-Visit Bakeries In Spokane For Sweet Treats
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit explorewashingtonstate.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
tripadvisor.com· directory
THE 10 BEST Bakeries in Spokane
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.
#3
thegrainshed.coop
The Grain Shed
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit thegrainshed.coop 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
45/100

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

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Made With Love Bakery"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "A bakery and coffee shop in Spokane crafting delicious desserts and j…"
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
85
Score · 100 point composite
Strong
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured June 1, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

0 critical · 2 material · 2 polish
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Material
LocalBusiness schema is incomplete
Address or phone is missing from the LocalBusiness schema — both are required for the local pack signal.
Fix:
Material
Multiple H1 tags (6)
Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too short (21 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
Polish
3 of 14 images missing alt text
Alt text helps both accessibility and image search ranking.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

Top of pack

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks bakery by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

You're on top

Among Spokane Bakeries we've audited, Made With Love Bakeryis the highest-scoring site. Worth defending — the rest of the report shows where the lead is durable and where it isn't.

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance64 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility94 /100
Best practices100 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.9 / 5
Reviews192
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag21 chars
Meta description85 chars
H1 count6
Images / missing alt14 / 3
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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