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Shaw Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning

Local pack position #1. That's real ground. Shaw holds the top local pack spot for "plumber spokane" and ranks fourth in organic — sitting behind Reddit, Yelp, and Above Average Plumbing, none of which can take a service call. A 4.9 rating across 1,302 reviews is one of the strongest trust signals in the Spokane market. The localization score backs it up: title tags, meta, and contact details all anchor the site to Spokane correctly. The composite score is 87 out of 100. Three specific gaps are pulling it down. Eighteen of 35 images have no alt text — search engines skip those entirely. The LocalBusiness schema is incomplete, which means Google is inferring structured data instead of reading it cleanly. And the Lighthouse SEO score sits below 90, which affects how confidently Googlebot crawls the site. Fix those three, and the gap between pack position and organic position gets shorter. The report below shows exactly where each gap lives and what to change first.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

3 cached queries
Primary commercial query · May 25, 2026
Shaw Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning ranks #4 organic · #1 in the local pack
for plumber spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: shawplumbingservices.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 Shaw Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “plumber spokane
#1
reddit.com· directory
Reasonably priced plumber? : r/Spokane
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
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 PLUMBING 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
aboveaverageplumbing.com
Above Average Plumbing: Expert Plumbing Services ...
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit aboveaverageplumbing.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.

Other Queries in Your Vertical
best plumber spokane
Organic #6Local pack #1
Top: reddit.com · yelp.com · angi.com
plumber near me spokane
Local pack #1
Top: reddit.com · yelp.com · aboveaverageplumbing.com
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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: "Spokane Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing | Shaw Plumbing Heating & Air …"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "We’ve served both residential and commercial properties in the Spokan…"
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
87
Score · 100 point composite
Strong
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured May 25, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

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Material
LocalBusiness schema is incomplete
Address or phone is missing from the LocalBusiness schema — both are required for the local pack signal.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (18/35)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Material
Lighthouse SEO score below 90
Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 85/100.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too long (81 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
Polish
Meta description is too long (161 chars)
Meta descriptions display best between 70 and 160 characters.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

Top of pack

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks plumbing by composite audit score, across the 6 sites we've measured in this vertical.

You're on top

Among Spokane Plumbing we've audited, Shaw Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioningis the highest-scoring site. Worth defending — the rest of the report shows where the lead is durable and where it isn't.

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance87 /100
SEO85 /100
Accessibility74 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.9 / 5
Reviews1302
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag81 chars
Meta description161 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt35 / 18
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes

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