Come see Megan Glick and Gino Cipperoni at DD24 in Florida. Megan and Gino will be talking about Google’s recently released dealer playbook with new guidelines and program changes as well as sharing some of our most successful SEM campaigns this year. If you didn’t get to see us at NADA, we will also be at booth 621! Looking forward to seeing…
Category: Dealer eProcess
HD Images on Google and VDP Complaints
HD images on Google, VDP complaints, and how that ends on my view of automotive online buying: Google just added ‘HD photos only’ search to the image search category, yet they continue to use “scare tactics” while claiming ridiculous speeds for load times needed for small businesses. (Please note that I say “small businesses” because Nike, Amazon, eBay, or Google…
Match Sales Data to Your PPC Campaigns and Align Them
Match sales data to your PPC campaigns and align them. CAROi heatmap targeting is a good advance; you should read it just to know what tools are available so you can use them whether is now or in the future. CAROi heatmap targeting links the geofencing concept with your GAN account via your DMS data. This tool will allow you…
automotive seo, car dealer websites, compliance, Dealer eProcess, dealer websites, DEP West, Toyota, Website, website seo
Toyota Site Redesigns
Our newest Toyota site redesigns (see: magictoyota.com) are pretty close to the OEM, included with all the geo changes (ads have the state disclaimers, etc). We put inventory first and research pages second (OEM only has research pages) but made the research pages available via the SRP and the VDP. New to this site is also “thumb enabled” ads, and SRP/VDP images.…
Dealertrack Credit Application Form Updates
In an effort to make the Dealertrack © credit application form better integrated with the website system we will be making a modification to remove special characters from leads before sending to Dealertrack. We are finding a lot of restrictions with their system as far what characters can be received or not. If you have had any issues about not…
Review Your PPC Campaigns
“If you don’t review your PPC campaigns individually you are not improving the underperforming models.” If we run longer and better funded campaigns on the top models, dealer name + geo, OEM + geo, etc you will find every customer around you (customers that know you) that already intend to buy a vehicle from you. The result is great campaign…