Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Shanks Custom Hardwood Inc.

Shanks isn't ranking for "flooring contractor spokane." Not yet. United Floor Covering holds the top spot, with Yelp and Mr. Handyman filling positions two and three — none of them a direct local competitor in the way Shanks is. The 5-star rating and 53 reviews are real assets. That's a strong foundation. The localization signal scores 83 out of 100. Title, meta, and contact details all anchor the site to Spokane correctly. Google can read where you operate. What it can't read: your business type. There's no LocalBusiness schema on the site, which means the structured data layer Google uses to confirm entity type, service area, and legitimacy is missing entirely. Combined with slow mobile performance and 13 of 14 images carrying no alt text, the site is harder to parse than it should be. Those are the three gaps this report addresses — each one fixable, each one with a direct effect on where the site lands against the seven audited Spokane flooring contractors.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Shanks Custom Hardwood Inc. doesn't appear in the top 10 for flooring contractor 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 Shanks Custom Hardwood Inc. Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “flooring contractor spokane
#1
unitedfloorcovering.com
United Floor Covering - Spokane
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit unitedfloorcovering.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
yelp.com· directory
TOP 10 BEST Flooring Installer 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.
#3
mrhandyman.com
Floor Repair & Flooring Installation Spokane
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit mrhandyman.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
Localized — room to tighten
83/100

Strong Spokane signal — title, meta, and contact details all anchor the site locally.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Spokane Valley Hardwood Floors | Hardwood Flooring Spokane"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "509-218-5975 Shanks Custom Hardwood Inc. offers custom hardwood floor…"
Local cities / neighborhoods mentioned
No Spokane neighborhoods, Spokane Valley, or surrounding cities mentioned.
509 area code present
Local phone number visible in title or meta — strongest contact signal.

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 · 1 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:
Critical
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 32/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (13/14)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (237 chars)
Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

3 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks flooring by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Flooringwe've audited
Rank 4 of 7
#1
Black Forest Hardwood Floors LLC
blackforestfloors.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
85
/ 100
#2
Brothers Flooring & Design
brothersflooringnw.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
83
/ 100
#3
AG Floor Covering
agfloorcovering.com
70
/ 100
#4
You
Shanks Custom Hardwood Inc.
shankscustomhardwoodinc.com
Gap to #3: +2 points · Gap to #1: +17
68
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance32 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility88 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews53
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag58 chars
Meta description237 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt14 / 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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