SEO is a like a clock, always shifting, and kept true by machinery fathomless to the general population. Even people who make a living learning these intricate machinations are, at best, constantly battling to stay relevant. The hidden algorithms utilized by search engines like Google keep us on our toes, demanding constant vigilance and supreme dedication to the craft.…
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Google announced a few months ago that they were going to start penalizing websites that were deemed to be over-optimized for SEO as an attempt to "level the playing field". While many auto dealer websites shouldn't have an issue with this (your site provider should not only be up to date on Google's latest algorithm changes, but make sure your site is performing as well as possible), here are some things to avoid so you don’t…
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It's official! Google has finally announced guidelines and recommendations on how to build mobile websites that work best for users and Google.
Google recommends building your mobile site with a responsive design approach. This means that your mobile site uses the same URL as your main site, and serves the same HTML, but uses CSS to change how the page is…
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Does your car dealership sell have more than one location? If so, big news from Google Places. In the past, it was difficult and cumbersome to create and manage more than one Places account. To help their users, Google Places has created a new Bulk Listing Management Tool.
This new tool allows your dealership to edit one or more listing, search your listings (filtering by specific info or by listing with errors), and upload new listings from a data file or…
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Saw this post on Smart Money and wanted to share it with my dE followers: what do you think about the article's opinion that investors should bet on Google, rather than Facebook?
And what does this mean for those of us in the automotive industry -- many automotive companies use both platforms effectively, but the debate continues over which platform has better long-term potential - in this…
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How come everybody isn't using Google Voice?
Here are 15 reasons why you should be, if you're not already…
This may sound like a commercial, but I am just a fan and user trying to pass on the idea.
Added by Adam Ross -InfiniteProspects.com on May 16, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments
I recently found a great article that discusses very specific things businesses should be doing to help their Google Places Listing improve its ranking. Bizible, a start-up that makes local marketing software for businesses, conducted a pretty scientific attempt to determine how best to improve the rank of your Google Places Listing.…
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Added by Dan Ferguson on April 10, 2012 at 11:26am — No Comments
But you couldn’t be more wrong about microsites!
I have had a few dealers reach out to me lately on Microsites being a bad idea and even one of the largest industry providers asking me if dealers using them will be “Black Listed” by Google…REALLY?!
In this video Matt Cutts from Google explains his OPINION on microsites and calls out a post by Vanessa Fox “Microsites A Bad Idea Most of the Time”.
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ContinueAdded by Larry Bruce on March 10, 2012 at 12:12pm — 1 Comment
Most times, Google will make changes to their algorithm that either largely go unnoticed (meaning they only affect niche sites) or unannounced (your site will see SERP changes but won't necessarily know why). On Tuesday, Google announced 40 changes to search quality they have made over the past month or so.
While many of these changes are pretty high level,…
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Why does GM think they have to be so involved? They are like that friends parents in high school that are WAY too involved. Just get out of our way and let us sell some cars. I can't help but think that a majority of dealers have to be smarter than they let on to be. With GM buying Google ad words, and making us compete against ourselves, forcing us to have a Cobalt site, and now taking over our Yelp, Google…
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Warm congratulations to Kelly Automotive, winners at the state level of the prestigious Dealer of the Year award given by Dealer Rater! Chris Saraceno (L) and his team worked tirelessly this year to go above and beyond their customers' expectations, and their efforts definitely paid off!…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about how Google was going to include items from Google+ in their regular search results when users were signed in, calling it “Search Plus Your World”. Now that users have had some time to get accustomed to it, I wanted to touch on how this new way of searching could benefit your car dealership’s local search…
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Many dealerships focus their search engine optimization reporting on how well they are ranking for certain terms. As long as they show up on Page 1 of Google's search results, they are happy. While search engine page ranking is an important part of every dealership's online marketing efforts, what happens if your auto dealer website is showing up on page 1 for every keyword, but you aren't seeing any traffic?
If you are seeing…
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Google has just announced that beginning March 1 2012, they will be "...getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read."
The updated Google Privacy Policy can be found here http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/.
Google has explained that it wants users to have an easier time of:
-Working across Google (Youtube,…
ContinueAdded by AutoSTARR on January 27, 2012 at 5:03pm — 2 Comments
While (I hope) most dealership websites won’t be affected by this, Google has recently announced they will begin penalizing websites that have too many ads at the top. It's being called the "page layout algorithm" and affects sites that "don't have much content 'above-the-fold'", according to Google's Inside Search blog.
We've all clicked onto a site only to have to scroll down through the ads to actually find the content we are looking for. This algorithm change will…
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In Google's latest attempt to make Google+ the biggest social network, they've integrated it into your search results.
Of course, this hasn't been done across all Google search results. In order to see this integration, you must be logged into Google+ (though some have seen it simply logged into Google) and be using their secure search portal at https://www.google.com. The company is calling this search update "Search Plus Your World" and…
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I've written multiple pieces on how to properly set up and maintain your Google Places listing and account, but haven't touched on the mistakes you could be making, hurting your car dealership online marketing strategy.
Here are the places where you could really screw up your listing if you aren't careful:
Don't use a post office box. Even if this is where you get mail, make sure you use the actual address of your…
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A study released in September shows how Ratings and Reviews has an impact on consumer shopping decisions. They seek out what experiences other consumers had before they make their own decision. This of course is different from general "social media" where they seek out commentary from their friends.
Some excerpts of this study include:"Data from “The 2011 Social…
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Google recently announced a new update to their search engine algorithm that puts a greater emphasis on recently published, fresh content. "This change...promotes fresher results...so that we provide users the most relevant answers to their queries," according to a Google spokesperson.
Regularly updated content has always been a positive ranking factor in SEO, but this announcement from Google makes it that much more important.
So how can your dealership use…
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