What Universal Analytics offers to developers is the ability to collect data from multiple devices and platforms. Old Google Analytics would only report website traffic, with Universal Analytics you can track actions in mobile apps, game consoles, and information kiosks. For the automotive industry, the extra device tracking is not a huge perk. However, when an account has Universal Analytics enabled, you can see details about which search engine was used arriving on the site, user behavior details like session timeouts, referral exclusions, and search term exclusions. Referral exclusions can be useful for providing more accurate data about user behavior. For example, if your site has a sister site at a different domain, and users could bounce back and forth between the 2, you would want to exclude each of the urls so that this behavior is reported as the same session instead of referral traffic. Excluded search terms allow you to mark organic search traffic from specific terms as direct traffic instead. If you would prefer that when people search for your company name to get to your website, … Continue reading →
Year: 2014
PPC DealerLab Integration
We announced this month a new DealerLab + Google integration with PPC campaigns reporting straight in the back end of the websites and here is a screenshot of how the system looks. On a regular account you will have all the campaigns listed as you scroll down (not just the one that shows on the screenshot) including regular PPC and re-targeting campaigns. Dynamic PPC (next post) will also be included as a campaign with the additional “per unit” detail. For more information about this integration contact: Nick Gorton General Manager Integrated PPC Questions? 206.484.2895 Call or text
CraigsList posting method analysis
Case Studies: In this study, I’m going to show information for dealers on the daily posting method and the monthly posting method. DAILY POSTING METHOD The daily method, is posting a set number of vehicles every single day. This can be any number, though I think at least 5 per day would be best at minimum. Best when paired with an initial upload so that the dealer’s inventory is immediately available and then augmented every day. PROS: – Inventory Up Every Day – Some inventory always at or near the top of the search – No drop-off (expiration) day for entire inventory. CONS: – It can be cost prohibitive – If not paired with initial upload, it can take a week or more to get a dealer’s entire inventory posted. MONTHLY POSTING METHOD The monthly method is setup so that all the cars post at the beginning of the month (or when the dealer signs up) and as new inventory arrives in the dealers feed, that inventory is posted to CL. PROS: – Easier to manage Cost. – Inventory up … Continue reading →
Dyamic PPC
Introducing a brand new way to drive traffic directly to your Vehicle Detail Pages. This is the most advanced, integrated pay per click system on the market today. Dynamic, inventory specific, Google Ads are here! We have been working hard on a system that creates unique Google ads for the specific used cars that you have in stock. Here’s how it works. 1) Someone searches for a car in Google 2) If the search is a match for the Year, Make, Model car you have in stock an ad matching their search is shown 3) The searcher clicks on the ad and goes directly to the VDP The reporting data comes directly from your Google Adwords account. You have full transparency into cost per click, total spend per car, even conversions from your PPC ads. This is the most targeted, cost effective, transparent way to get your cars in front of searchers. The best part is that all of the data is in your existing DealerLab.com dashboard. One log-in to see every click, conversion and dollar spent. To Your Success, … Continue reading →