Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Valley Electric Service

67
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 June 17, 2026.

1Your Spokane Standing

#6 of 6
The Standing
Valley Electric Service ranks #6 of 6 Electrical we track in Spokane.

That's the bottom third of the field. The sites above you aren't doing anything exotic — they're doing the basics, and you can see the score gap below.

Rank
Business
1
Infinite Electric· leader
94376 rev4.9
2
Spokane competitor
9353 rev5.0
3
Spokane competitor
9188 rev5.0
4
Spokane competitor
91523 rev4.8
5
Spokane competitor
84154 rev4.8
6
You
7420 rev4.4

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Composite score blends on-page, reputation, and local-search signals. Full methodology at /data.

The Spokane Electrical field
5 tracked · snapshot July 20, 2026
Median audit score
81field
67
Have LocalBusiness schema
80%field
you don't
Median Google reviews
154field
20
Median mobile load
6.2sfield
13.9s

This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Electrical we track, captured and time-stamped. The gaps below are your position inside it.

2Where Customers Decide

Reviews · trust signal
The Signal Customers Actually Check
You're 5 spots back on the signal customers actually check.

Reviews are the one ranking signal your customers read before they ever load your site. Google reads it too — review volume and rating feed the local pack directly.

Where You Sit on Spokane Electrical Reviews
median 154
523
floor 53
Epic Electric, Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
you 20
You
20reviews
4.4★ rating
Category leader · Epic Electric, Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
523reviews
503 ahead of you
You need 134 more reviews just to reach the Spokane median for Electrical. That's not the top — that's the middle. The local pack is sorted on signals like this one.
Move Me to #1
Live · against the real Spokane field

Drag your review count up. We re-rank you on reviews against the same Spokane field, live — every competitor stays fixed.

Your reviews
20
Review rank
#6of 6
20 nowleader Epic Electric, Heating, Cooling & Plumbing · 523

You sit at #6 today. Drag the reviews up to see what the climb buys.

3Your Live Google Position

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The local pack · locked

You're not in Google's local 3-pack for Spokane Electrical.

Organic #6, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#6Valley Electric Servicenot in pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

2 costly · 1 material · 2 polish

Ranked by what each gap costs you, not by how a scanner flags it. The top of this list is where you're losing the call or the click today. Work down from there.

  1. Google is guessing what your business is.

    Structured data is how you tell Google your name, address, and what you sell. Without it, Google infers — and it trusts the competitors it's sure about.

    Fix: Add a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with NAP (name, address, phone), opening hours, and primary category.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    No structured data (JSON-LD) on page — Google relies on structured data to understand local business information. — Add a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with NAP (name, address, phone), opening hours, and primary category.

  2. Google is writing your search-result preview for you.

    An empty meta description means Google grabs random page text. You're handing your first impression to an algorithm.

    Fix: Add a unique meta description summarizing the page
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Missing meta description — The page has no <meta name="description"> tag. — Add a unique meta description summarizing the page. Include the city and primary service.

  3. You're just below the three businesses that get the calls.

    The top three map results take most of the clicks. You're close — close enough that reviews and a few fixes can move you in.

    Fix: Strengthen NAP consistency across citations, build reviews, and
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Ranking #6 for the primary organic query — Positions 4–7 sit below the top organic results, where the first three capture most of the clicks. — Strengthen NAP consistency across citations, build reviews, and add LocalBusiness schema if missing.

  4. Your links look like spam when shared.

    Paste your URL into Facebook or a text and you get a blank box. A bare link gets fewer clicks than one with a title and image.

    Fix: Add og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url meta tags to the
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Open Graph meta tags — Open Graph tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. — Add og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url meta tags to the page <head>.

  5. Your links show no preview on X.

    Shared without a card, your link is a naked URL. A preview with a headline and image earns the click; a bare link doesn't.

    Fix: Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description,
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Twitter Card meta tags — Twitter Card tags control share previews on X/Twitter. — Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image meta tags.

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Full Technical Detail

Authority · trajectory · load · raw signals
Organic authority · searches you're not getting
Authority & organic traffic
The leader in your vertical pulls about 599 searches a month.

That's roughly 12 inbound leadsa month from organic search alone. We haven't mapped Valley Electric Service's own authority yet, so we can't draw the gap — but the ceiling for this market is right there.

Mobile load · field metric
The Wait Before Anything Loads
On a phone, visitors wait 13.9 seconds for your page — slower than 3 Spokane competitors.

This is Largest Contentful Paint — the moment your main content actually appears on a phone. Google's bar for “good” is 2.5s. Past it, visitors leave before the page finishes, and Google ranks you lower for it.

Mobile load time across Spokane Electrical
good 2.5s
median 6.2s
0s
Epic Electric, Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
you 13.9s
You
13.9s
11.4s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Epic Electric, Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
3.3s
10.6s faster than you
3 of 5 Spokane Electrical we measured load faster than you. On mobile, every second past the 2.5s bar costs visitors before they ever see your offer — and Google folds that wait straight into your ranking.
Layout shift (CLS)0.00
Spokane signal · local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Localized — room to tighten
65/100

Your title names Spokane, but the meta description doesn't reinforce it.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Valley Electric Service – Spokane Valley Electrician"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta description is missing entirely.
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance51 /100
SEO92 /100
Accessibility83 /100
Best practices96 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)13.9 s
CLS (shift)0.00
INP (response)
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.4 / 5
Reviews20
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag52 chars
Meta descriptionmissing
H1 count1
Images / missing alt3 / 0
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
Report cmqihxoh · 2026-06-17