Yago Paramo

Automotive Entrepreneur

Category: car dealer websites

Driving Sales Award

Dealer e-Process Presented with DrivingSales.com Top Rated Website Provider Dealer e-Process receives a “Top Rated” Award for Dealer Satisfaction in SEM – PPC and Websites Categories Downers Grove, Illinois – January 24, 2014 – Dealer e-Process is the recipient of “Top Rated” awards in the SEM – PPC and Websites categories in the fifth annual DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Awards. The awards were presented at a special event today in conjunction with the 2014 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention & Expo. “It’s an honor to have received a DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction award every year since its inception in the auto industry. I would really like to thank the team at Dealer e-Process for making this happen and keeping our focus where it needs to be – on great customer support and innovation for our dealers,” said Dave Page, Owner of Dealer e-Process. Dealer e-Process’ search campaigns are designed to reach buyers in all different phases of the car buying funnel; from the highest level, exploratory purchaser, to the customer who has chosen a specific vehicle and is ready to buy. … Continue reading

Dynamic Inventory PPC

Last month we introduced Dynamic PPC for New and Used inventory but what is most important, integrated with your DealerLab websites back end. Dynamic ads allow you to target any DMA because the ads are not based on key words so you don’t use any competitor names or brands, the ads are based on inventory specific searches in Google and a matching based on IP address. Today we show you a screen shoot of the system with the “per unit” activity report. A few of the key features of the system: 1) Monthly budget managed in Google’s back end like a PPC campaign. 2) Reporting available on your Google account and in your DealerLab website. 3) Total budget cap per vehicle available to avoid high profile cars burning the budget. 4) Separate campaigns and budget for new and used. 5) Customized target areas for new and used. 6) Ability not to push cars with no photos (Available late Q1 2014). We have been working hard on a system that creates unique Google ads for the specific used cars that you … Continue reading

Google Universal Analytics

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

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

Google Display Network Advertising

Google has added a feature to their display network advertising. The buzzword here is “Viewability.” When bidding on impressions (CPM) in the display network, you can now require that the ad is viewable before you’re charged for it. The qualifications for an ad to viewable is that at least 50% of the ad is on the user’s screen for at least 1 second. This is in an effort to prevent advertisers from being charged for ads that are below the fold on the publishers page. This isn’t especially applicable to us, since we currently bid on clicks, and in remarketing clicks are more important than impressions. source: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2013/12/just-in-time-for-holidays-viewability.html To Your Success, Kevin Drongowski Senior Account Manager Integrated PPC Questions? 425-780-2774 Call or text