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Spokane Ballet Studio

Spokane Ballet Studio has real strengths here. A 95/100 localization score means Google reads this site as genuinely Spokane — title tags, meta, and contact details all confirm it. That's not nothing. But the primary query tells the real story. On "dance studio spokane," the site doesn't crack the top ten. Dance Center of Spokane, 509 Collective, and Spokane Elite Dance are all ahead of it. Third of four audited studios in the market. Two things are holding the ranking down. Mobile load speed is the critical one — slow performance pushes Google's ranking signal down before a prospective student ever sees the page. The second is structural: the LocalBusiness schema is incomplete, so Google can't fully parse what the business is and where it serves. Strong local signals in the visible content, but the machine-readable layer isn't finished. The report below shows exactly where the speed breaks down and what schema fields are missing.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Spokane Ballet Studio doesn't appear in the top 10 for dance studio 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 Spokane Ballet Studio Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “dance studio spokane
#1
dancecenterofspokane.com
Dance Center of Spokane
score56/100
PSI mobile
58/100
Reviews
25
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#2
509collective.com
Dance and Cheer Studio in Spokane, WA | 509 Collective, LLC
score87/100
PSI mobile
63/100
Reviews
5
Rating
5.0/5
Schema
Partial
#3
spokaneelitedance.com
Spokane Elite Dance Studio
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit spokaneelitedance.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
Strong local anchor
95/100

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

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Spokane Ballet Studio"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Spokane Ballet is offering ballet classes for ages three through adul…"
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
75
Score · 100 point composite
Solid baseline
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

1 critical · 1 material · 2 polish
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Critical
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 38/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor.
Fix:
Material
LocalBusiness schema is incomplete
Address or phone is missing from the LocalBusiness schema — both are required for the local pack signal.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too short (21 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
Polish
10 of 48 images missing alt text
Alt text helps both accessibility and image search ranking.
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 dance-studio by composite audit score, across the 7 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Dance Studioswe've audited
Rank 4 of 7
#1
509 Collective Dance Studio
509collective.com
87
/ 100
#2
Artistry in Motion Dance and Performing Arts Studio
artistry-motion.com
Does what you don't: Has complete NAP in schema
82
/ 100
#3
Inspirations Dance Studio
inspirationsdancespokane.com
Does what you don't: Has complete NAP in schema
78
/ 100
#4
You
Spokane Ballet Studio
spokaneballetstudio.com
Gap to #3: +3 points · Gap to #1: +12
75
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance38 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility89 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating5.0 / 5
Reviews7
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag21 chars
Meta description71 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt48 / 10
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes

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