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Small Animal Internal Medicine

#2 in the local pack is a real position. But the sites holding #1 have something this one doesn't: a Google rating above 4.0. At 3.9 stars across 60 reviews, the gap to Animal Clinic of Spokane is narrow — and visible to every searcher before they click. That's the sting. The localization is solid. Title, meta, and contact details all anchor the site to Spokane correctly, which is why it's ranking. The structural gaps are what's holding the ceiling down. No H1 tag. Four of six images have no alt text. Those two issues tell search engines less about the page than they should. This report shows exactly where the 78/100 score is bleeding points — and which fixes move the needle first.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Small Animal Internal Medicine ranks #2 in the local pack
for veterinary clinic spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: petemergencyspokane.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 Small Animal Internal Medicine Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “veterinary clinic spokane
#1
animalclinicofspokane.com
Animal Clinic of Spokane: Spokane Veterinary Clinic
score60/100
PSI mobile
61/100
Reviews
424
Rating
4.7/5
Schema
None
#2
northspokvetclinic.com
North Spokane Veterinary Clinic - Veterinarian in Spokane ...
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit northspokvetclinic.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#3
regalvetclinic.com
Home | Regal Veterinary Center | Spokane
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit regalvetclinic.com 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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Beyond the three queries above — see where petemergencyspokane.comranks across neighborhood and modifier long-tail (“south hill,” “affordable,” “near me,” and more). One free deep profile, yours to keep.

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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: "Emergency Veterinarian in Spokane, WA | Urgent Vet Care | Contact Us"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Emergency Veterinarian in Spokane providing urgent vet care to pets i…"
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
78
Score · 100 point composite
Solid baseline
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 · 1 polish
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Critical
Google rating is 3.9/5
Average rating below 4.0 hurts the local-pack click-through dramatically.
Fix:
Critical
No H1 tag on page
Every page should have exactly one H1.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (4/6)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too long (68 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

1 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks veterinary by composite audit score, across the 5 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Veterinarywe've audited
Rank 2 of 5
#1
Hunter Veterinary Clinic
huntervet.com
Does what you don't: Has a clear H1
83
/ 100
#2
You
Small Animal Internal Medicine
petemergencyspokane.com
Gap to #1: +5 points
78
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance100 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility85 /100
Best practices100 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating3.9 / 5
Reviews60
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemayes
On-page & discovery
Title tag68 chars
Meta description141 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt6 / 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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