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The Cleaning Authority - Spokane

Ranking #1 for "house cleaning service spokane" is real. That's a strong position. But the audit puts this site 5th out of 8 Spokane house-cleaning businesses overall — and the gap is structural, not content. The homepage title and meta description contain zero geographic signal. Google is ranking this page on authority alone, not because the site clearly tells it where the business operates. Add 634 reviews at 4.8 stars with no structured data markup, and all that reputation is invisible to search engines at the code level. The report below shows exactly which technical fixes close those gaps first.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
The Cleaning Authority - Spokane ranks #1 organic
for house cleaning service 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 The Cleaning Authority - Spokane Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “house cleaning service spokane
#1
thecleaningauthority.comYou
Spokane House Cleaning
score70/100
PSI mobile
72/100
Reviews
634
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#2
yelp.com· directory
THE BEST 10 HOME CLEANING 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
reddit.com· directory
House cleaner recs : 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.

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
Site doesn't say it's in Spokane
0/100

No Spokane signal in the homepage title or meta description. The site doesn't tell Google where it operates.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Full-Service Professional Cleaning | The Cleaning Authority"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "The Cleaning Authority offers detailed house cleaning services to val…"
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
70
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

1 critical · 0 material · 1 polish
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Critical
No structured data (JSON-LD) on page
Google relies on structured data to understand local business information.
Fix:
Polish
7 of 24 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

4 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks house-cleaning by composite audit score, across the 8 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane House Cleaningwe've audited
Rank 5 of 8
#1
Live Clean Today
livecleantoday.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
95
/ 100
#2
Clean Bee Residential
cleanbeeresidential.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
88
/ 100
#3
Maids of Movher
maidsofmovher.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
77
/ 100
#4
Empire Cleaning Services
empire-cleaning-services.com
Does what you don't: Publishes structured data
76
/ 100
#5
You
The Cleaning Authority - Spokane
thecleaningauthority.com
Gap to #4: +6 points · Gap to #1: +25
70
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance72 /100
SEO100 /100
Accessibility85 /100
Best practices96 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.8 / 5
Reviews634
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag59 chars
Meta description147 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt24 / 7
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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