Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

River City Locksmith

#2 on "locksmith spokane" is real. Al's Locksmith is the one site above you, and that gap is closeable. Your Google profile is strong — 4.8 stars across 344 reviews is genuine trust. The site isn't carrying that weight yet. Two structural fixes account for most of the distance. No LocalBusiness schema means Google is reading your pages without a clear signal that you're a Spokane business. No meta description means search results show auto-generated text instead of a controlled pitch to the searcher. Thin signals. That's the pattern. Your localization score is 40 out of 100. The title names Spokane, but the meta description and contact markup don't reinforce it — so the site reads as locally relevant in one place and generic everywhere else. Among the seven Spokane locksmiths audited here, you rank fifth on technical signals. The report below shows exactly which fixes move that number.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
River City Locksmith ranks #2 organic
for locksmith spokane

Top-3 organic on this query — strong. The local pack typically sits above organic in mobile results, so the next jump is appearing in the 3-pack.

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

Organic top 3 · “locksmith spokane
#1
alslocksmithspokane.com
Al's Locksmith: Locksmith | Spokane, WA
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit alslocksmithspokane.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
rivercitylockandkey.comYou
Home - River City Locksmith Spokane | (509) 703-6231
score65/100
PSI mobile
62/100
Reviews
344
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#3
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 KEYS & LOCKSMITHS 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.

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: "Home - River City Locksmith Spokane | (509) 703-6231"
"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
65
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

2 critical · 2 material · 0 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:
Critical
Missing meta description
The page has no <meta name="description"> tag.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (13/18)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Material
Lighthouse SEO score below 90
Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 85/100.
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 locksmith by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Locksmithswe've audited
Rank 5 of 7
#1
American Lock & Key
spokane-locksmith.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
94
/ 100
#2
Advantage Lock & Key
advantagelocksmithspokane.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
87
/ 100
#3
Spokane Locksmith
thespokanelocksmiths.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
86
/ 100
#4
Liberty Locksmith
libertylocksmith.store
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
77
/ 100
#5
You
River City Locksmith
rivercitylockandkey.com
Gap to #4: +12 points · Gap to #1: +29
65
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance62 /100
SEO85 /100
Accessibility84 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews344
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag52 chars
Meta descriptionmissing
H1 count1
Images / missing alt18 / 13
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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