Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Spokane Senior, College Grad & Sports Photographer

71
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.

Rank #3 for "best photographer spokane" is a real position. Zach Nicholz and a Yelp aggregator page sit above you — one individual, one directory. That's beatable. The 5-star rating across 115 reviews is strong social proof. Google sees it too. But without JSON-LD structured data on your pages, the search engine can't read your business type, service area, or review count as machine-readable signals — it's guessing instead of confirming. That's the gap. Your localization score is 100/100 — your title and meta tags name Spokane explicitly, which is exactly right. The audit also flags an organic #9 position on a secondary query, meaning one strong page is doing most of the work while others sit quiet. This report shows which pages those are and what structured data would need to say to close the distance on the top two results.

1Your Spokane Standing

#5 of 8
The Standing
Spokane Senior, College Grad & Sports Photographer ranks #5 of 8 Photographers we track in Spokane.
Rank
Business
1
Heads and Tails Photography· leader
95201 rev5.0
2
Spokane competitor
93152 rev5.0
3
Spokane competitor
8342 rev5.0
4
Spokane competitor
8247 rev4.9
5
You
82115 rev5.0
6
Spokane competitor
79101 rev5.0
7
Spokane competitor
6762 rev5.0
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 August 31, 2026
Median audit score
72field
71
Have LocalBusiness schema
29%field
you don't
Median Google reviews
62field
115
Median mobile load
6.3sfield
5.6s

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
You're 2 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 Photographers Reviews
median 62
201
floor 42
Heads and Tails Photography
you 115
You
115reviews
5.0★ rating
Category leader · Heads and Tails Photography
201reviews
86 ahead of you
You're past the Spokane median for Photographers— real ground held. The gap that's left is to Heads and Tails Photography: 86 reviews. Closing it is what moves you from middle of the pack to the top of the local SERP.
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
115
Review rank
#3of 8
115 nowleader Heads and Tails Photography · 201

You sit at #3 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 #4, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#4Spokane Senior, College Grad & Sports Photographernot in pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

2 costly · 0 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. You don't show up where local buyers look first.

    The map's top results capture most local searches, and you're not in them. The fix is foundational: profile, schema, and on-page basics.

    Fix: Fix the foundational signals first: GBP completeness, LocalBusiness schema with NAP, on-page title + H1 with city.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    Outside the top results (organic #9) — The site does not rank in the top 7 organic results for its primary local query. — Fix the foundational signals first: GBP completeness, LocalBusiness schema with NAP, on-page title + H1 with city.

  2. 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,
    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.

  3. Your search headline gets cut off mid-word.

    Too long and Google truncates it; too short and it says nothing. Either way the click goes to a clearer competitor.

    Fix: Rewrite the page title to land between 30 and 65 characters
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Title tag is too long (78 chars) — Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results. — Rewrite the page title to land between 30 and 65 characters with the primary keyword and location.

  4. 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 (222 chars) — Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters. — Rewrite the meta description with a concrete benefit and local keyword. Target ~150 characters.

  5. 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.

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Full Technical Detail

Organic authority · searches you're not getting
Authority & organic traffic
The leader pulls 3,700 searches a month. You pull 1,500.
The Spokane leader3,700 /moDA 16
Spokane Senior, College Grad & Sports Photographer1,500 /moDA 10

At a typical 2% inquiry rate, that 2,200-search gap is about 44 inbound leads a month you're not getting. Same town, same searches — going to the site Google trusts more.

Mobile load · field metric
The Wait Before Anything Loads
On a phone, visitors wait 5.6 seconds for your page — slower than 2 Spokane competitors.

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 5.6s
You
5.6s
3.1s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Crystal Madsen Photography
3.0s
2.6s faster than you
2 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
100/100

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

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Spokane Senior, College Grad & Sports Photographer | Nate Robinson Ph…"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "A Spokane photographer for those celebrating the joys of life from Se…"
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance74 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility84 /100
Best practices100 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)5.6 s
CLS (shift)0.00
INP (response)
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews115
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag78 chars
Meta description222 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt0 / 0
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
Report cmql9i93 · 2026-06-19