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Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare

Local pack #1. That's real. With a 4.9 rating across 105 reviews and the top local pack spot for "pet boarding kennel spokane," Updawg has built something most competitors haven't. But organic tells a different story — three sites rank above you before a searcher ever sees your name. The core problem is location signal. Your homepage title and meta description don't mention Spokane. Google has to guess where you operate. That single gap is suppressing organic rank on the queries that matter most. This report shows exactly where freerangeboarding.com, playnstay.com, and marcindakennels.com are pulling ahead — and the specific fixes, starting with the missing meta description and incomplete schema, that close the distance.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

1 cached query
Primary commercial query · May 30, 2026
Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare ranks #8 organic · #1 in the local pack
for pet boarding kennel spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: updawgpethotel.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 Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “pet boarding kennel spokane
#1
freerangeboarding.com
Free Range Boarding | Dog Boarding | Spokane, WA
score75/100
PSI mobile
50/100
Reviews
122
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#2
playnstay.com
Play N Stay
score68/100
PSI mobile
52/100
Reviews
407
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
None
#3
marcindakennels.com
Marcinda Kennel Home - Pet Boarding | Spokane, WA ...
score72/100
PSI mobile
76/100
Reviews
60
Rating
4.8/5
Schema
Partial

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: "Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta description is missing entirely.
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
79
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 June 1, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

2 critical · 3 material · 1 polish
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Critical
Missing meta description
The page has no <meta name="description"> tag.
Fix:
Critical
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 49/100. 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:
Material
Most images missing alt text (5/9)
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 short (26 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

1 above you

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

Among Spokane Pet Boardingwe've audited
Rank 2 of 8
#1
Paradise Pet Resort
paradisepetresort.pet
Does what you don't: Has a meta description
82
/ 100
#2
You
Updawg Pet Hotel & Daycare
updawgpethotel.com
Gap to #1: +3 points
79
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance49 /100
SEO85 /100
Accessibility93 /100
Best practices100 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.9 / 5
Reviews105
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemayes
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag26 chars
Meta description0 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt9 / 5
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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