Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

River City Grooming

That 4.7 rating with 234 reviews is real authority. It's not showing up in the search results for "pet grooming spokane." Yelp, Puppy Pads, and PetSmart occupy the top three spots. River City isn't in the top ten. The reviews exist — Google just can't connect them to the query. Two structural gaps explain most of that. No JSON-LD means Google has no machine-readable signal confirming what this business is, where it operates, or what it does. Missing image alt text compounds it: the page looks thin to a crawler even when it isn't. The localization score is 40 out of 100. The title names Spokane. The meta description and contact markup don't reinforce it. Fix the structure, and the existing reputation has something to stand on. This report shows exactly where to start.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
River City Grooming doesn't appear in the top 10 for pet grooming spokane

That's the single highest-impact visibility gap in this report. The three sites that dorank are listed below — what they do, what you don't.

What the Top 3 Do That River City Grooming Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “pet grooming spokane
#1
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 Pet Groomers in SPOKANE, WA
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.
#2
puppypadspokane.com
Puppy Pad – Grooming and Boarding for Dogs And Cats in ...
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit puppypadspokane.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#3
stores.petsmart.com
PetSmart Pet Grooming Locations - Spokane, Washington
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit stores.petsmart.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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2Your Spokane Signal

Local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Partial signal — not enough
40/100

Title mentions Spokane, but supporting signals (meta description, contact info) are thin.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "River City Grooming - Pet Grooming - Spokane, Washington"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "We are here for all your pet grooming needs! From a simple walk-in na…"
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
43
Score · 100 point composite
Critical
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

1 critical · 1 material · 2 polish
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Critical
No structured data (JSON-LD) on page
Google relies on structured data to understand local business information.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (1/1)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Polish
No canonical tag
Self-referential canonical tags prevent duplicate content issues from tracking parameters.
Fix:
Polish
PageSpeed Insights could not be measured
PSI timed out before Lighthouse finished rendering the page.
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-grooming by composite audit score, across the 5 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Pet Groomingwe've audited
Rank 5 of 5
#1
Dee's Dog Grooming, LLC
deesdoggrooms.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
73
/ 100
#2
Spokane Dog Grooming
spokanedoggrooming.com
73
/ 100
#3
Cat Wash Center | Mobile Cat Grooming Specialists | Spokane WA
catwashcenter.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
70
/ 100
#4
Spokane Paw Prints Grooming
spokanepawprints.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
65
/ 100
#5
You
River City Grooming
rivercitygrooming.com
Gap to #4: +22 points · Gap to #1: +30
43
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance /100
SEO /100
Accessibility /100
Best practices /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.7 / 5
Reviews234
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag56 chars
Meta description115 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt1 / 1
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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