Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

American Lock & Key

You're sitting at the top of the local pack for "locksmith Spokane." That's a real position — earned, not accidental. A 4.8 rating across 465 reviews backs it up on the trust side. The organic results tell a different story. alslocksmithspokane.com and rivercitylockandkey.com both rank above you there, with Yelp at #3. Three spots before your site appears. That's the gap. Your localization signal is strong — title, meta, and contact details all anchor the site to Spokane correctly. The audit score of 94 out of 100 puts you first among seven Spokane locksmiths reviewed here. One specific structural issue is holding back the organic side: your pages carry three H1 tags where search engines expect one. That fractures the relevance signal each page sends. Fix the H1 structure and the page starts communicating a single, clear topic — which is exactly what closes the distance to alslocksmithspokane.com in organic. The report below shows where each gap lives and what to change first.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
American Lock & Key ranks #1 in the local pack
for locksmith spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: spokane-locksmith.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 American Lock & Key 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.com
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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Your Full Spokane Keyword Footprint

Beyond the three queries above — see where spokane-locksmith.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
Localized — room to tighten
75/100

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

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "American Lock and Key | Spokane Locksmith"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "American Lock and Key is Spokane's trusted locksmiths offering rekeyi…"
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
94
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 31, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

0 critical · 1 material · 0 polish
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Material
Multiple H1 tags (3)
Multiple H1s dilute heading hierarchy and confuse crawlers.
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 locksmith by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

You're on top

Among Spokane Locksmiths we've audited, American Lock & Keyis 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)
Performance74 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility98 /100
Best practices100 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews465
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemayes
On-page & discovery
Title tag42 chars
Meta description118 chars
H1 count3
Images / missing alt7 / 0
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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