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Play N Stay

#2 organic for "pet boarding kennel Spokane." That's real traction. But the local pack has you at #3, and freerangeboarding.com is sitting above you on both. The gap isn't authority — it's structure. Your homepage title and meta description contain no mention of Spokane, which means Google is inferring your location instead of reading it. That's a fixable signal problem, not a credibility problem. 4.8 stars across 407 reviews is a strong trust foundation. The report shows you how to make sure Google can actually use it. The audit found three H1 tags on one page, no JSON-LD structured data, and a missing meta description. Each one costs you clarity with the crawler. This report walks through each gap, what it affects, and the order to fix it.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Play N Stay ranks #2 organic · #3 in the local pack
for pet boarding kennel spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: playnstay.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 Play N Stay 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.comYou
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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Beyond the three queries above — see where playnstay.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
Site doesn't say it's in Spokane
0/100

No Spokane signal in the homepage title or meta description. The site doesn't tell Google where it operates.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Play N Stay"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta description is missing entirely.
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
68
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 31, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

2 critical · 2 material · 3 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
Missing meta description
The page has no <meta name="description"> tag.
Fix:
Material
Multiple H1 tags (3)
Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers.
Fix:
Material
Lighthouse SEO score below 90
Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 77/100.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too short (11 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
Polish
3 of 13 images missing alt text
Alt text helps both accessibility and image search ranking.
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 pet-boarding by composite audit score, across the 8 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Pet Boardingwe've audited
Rank 6 of 8
#1
Paradise Pet Resort
paradisepetresort.pet
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
82
/ 100
#2
Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare
updawgpethotel.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
79
/ 100
#3
Free Range Boarding
freerangeboarding.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
75
/ 100
#4
Marcinda Kennels
marcindakennels.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
72
/ 100
#5
Auntie Lindas
petboardingspokane.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
69
/ 100
#6
You
Play N Stay
playnstay.com
Gap to #5: +1 points · Gap to #1: +14
68
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance52 /100
SEO77 /100
Accessibility91 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews407
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag11 chars
Meta descriptionmissing
H1 count3
Images / missing alt13 / 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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