Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Auntie Lindas

Auntie Linda's ranks #6 on "pet boarding kennel spokane." Three competitors sit above them: freerangeboarding.com, playnstay.com, and marcindakennels.com. That's the gap. The 4.4 rating across 83 reviews is a real asset. Spokane localization signals are strong — title, meta, and contact details all do their job. The foundation holds. What's missing is structural. No LocalBusiness schema means Google is reading the page without the clearest possible confirmation of what this business is and where it operates. Half the audited images carry no alt text. The Lighthouse SEO score sits below 90. Those aren't small cosmetic issues. They're the specific signals search engines use to sort one local kennel from another. This report shows exactly where each gap sits and what to fix first.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Auntie Lindas ranks #6 organic
for pet boarding kennel spokane

On page one but below the local pack. Roughly 70% of clicks for this kind of query go to the 3-pack, so moving from organic #6 into local-pack #1–3 is the highest-leverage shift here.

What the Top 3 Do That Auntie Lindas Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “pet boarding kennel spokane
#1
freerangeboarding.com
Free Range Boarding | Dog Boarding | Spokane, WA
score75/100
PSI mobile
50/100
Reviews
122
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#2
playnstay.com
Play N Stay
score68/100
PSI mobile
52/100
Reviews
407
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#3
marcindakennels.com
Marcinda Kennel Home - Pet Boarding | Spokane, WA ...
score72/100
PSI mobile
76/100
Reviews
60
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
Partial

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: "Pet Boarding & Sitting in Spokane, WA by Auntie Linda's"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Auntie Linda's is your pet's home away from home in Spokane, WA. Our …"
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
69
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

1 critical · 2 material · 1 polish
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Critical
No LocalBusiness schema
JSON-LD is present but no LocalBusiness (or subtype) entity is declared. Local pack ranking relies on this.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (2/4)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Material
Lighthouse SEO score below 90
Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 85/100.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (243 chars)
Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

4 above you

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

Among Spokane Pet Boardingwe've audited
Rank 5 of 8
#1
Paradise Pet Resort
paradisepetresort.pet
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
82
/ 100
#2
Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare
updawgpethotel.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
79
/ 100
#3
Free Range Boarding
freerangeboarding.com
75
/ 100
#4
Marcinda Kennels
marcindakennels.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
72
/ 100
#5
You
Auntie Lindas
petboardingspokane.com
Gap to #4: +3 points · Gap to #1: +13
69
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance64 /100
SEO85 /100
Accessibility87 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.4 / 5
Reviews83
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag55 chars
Meta description243 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt4 / 2
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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