We have added new vehicle mobile menus that now list models the same way as on desktop, making it easier for customers to navigate to the vehicle they are looking for (see screenshots below). With the initial mega menus release we looked for a design that was compact as well as that it showed all the options in…
Category: mobile
Mobile Swipe Functionality
New feature (long overdue 😳): Mobile swipe functionality. We have added new functionality to both the SRP and VDP pages on your website! Now when using a mobile device, users have the ability to ‘swipe’ through vehicle images in addition to the original functionality of clicking the arrows to scroll through images. If you have any questions let me know!…
Local Mobile Searches
Yelp indexes very well specially on mobile searches. However, many mobile users are using social media apps that can bring recommendations based on geo locations, such as services like Facebook Local. Will this new offering for local mobile searches (in a sense a network consolidation) affect relying on location indexing dependent services (like Yelp)? Will they go out of fashion? Yago de…
Google AMP Project Changes
How many times in 2017 did Google push to use the YouTube director app? Be careful falling too far for Google’s AMP project. In terms of changes, direct traffic, business name searches, geo + product location, etc. will not be affected. Only a small fraction of long tail searches may be affected. If you don’t even do custom content this…
advertising, Auto Dealer Marketing, car dealer websites, content, Content Marketing, dealer websites, Digital Marketing, mobile, social media
BZ Results Websites – remember them?
Remember those BZ Results websites (they were acquired by ADP in 2006)? If you don’t I’ll tell you: Those looked good. Mainly flash based, they appealed to the most dangerous word in the automotive industry: “I like that” (rather than “the data shows we should use this one instead”). Those guys made money. They are long gone but flash survived…
Benefits of Mobile-Friendly Automotive Website Design
In today’s society, there are so many devices out there that we can use to effectively search the internet. This includes a desktop, tablet, phone, and more. However, as you know, each device has a different size screen and operating system making it difficult for websites to look good throughout the lineup without proper setup and help. That is why…