The Top Vehicle Listings Websites - Who's NEXT?

[ispekhov]

Call it what you want!
All the dealers care about is results.

And also should care about experience....

 

[Bill Simmons]

And another site enters the arena:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150214/RETAIL/150219883?template=mobile&X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

I don't see dealers listed although the articles says they are working with some. The "get quote" links offer up Edmunds, AutoByTel and others.

 

[emilymoore]

... Dealers want their website/vehicles freely discovered with no entry barriers. Dealers want buyers to go straight to the VDP. The VDP has the latest & best vehicle information and should have the best hooks to convert them to a lead....

@Bill C Is there a way for a Dealer to specify or request which website VDP's are indexed? For example, our vehicles are currently displaying VDP's from our Scion site, which is the weakest site that we have. Thanks!

 

[Bill C]

@Bill C Is there a way for a Dealer to specify or request which website VDP's are indexed? For example, our vehicles are currently displaying VDP's from our Scion site, which is the weakest site that we have. Thanks!

Good question Emily. There are a healthy number of dealers that have multiple websites and/or have multiple dealerships that share their inventory across sites (typically used). MotoMiner will dedupe these vehicles' VDPs when displaying search results. Right now, it picks the first vehicle's VDP it comes across with no priority given. We can look into logic to add priorities. I appreciate the feedback and I'll add it to our backlog so we can try and come up with something soon.

I'd encourage you/others to use the contact feature on our website to submit questions/feedback. That way we can have a more personal/offline dialogue on enhancing MotoMiner. I'd like to know more about your site(s) so we can dig in on the scenario. Taking this offline is probably the best here.

Thanks again for your feedback!

 

[Alexander Lau]

Did someone mention AutoWeb.com?

If they did, laughable, as their get a quote or traffic building partner links are dead:
http://www.autoweb.com/search?filter={"offset":0,"selectedModels":[{"Mk":"Aston Martin","Mds":["Rapide"]}],"selectedType":[],"selectedDistance":"--","selectedLat":25.7890972,"selectedLng":-80.2040435}&orderBy=[{"Key":"Make","Value":"ASC"},{"Key":"submodel","Value":"ASC"},{"Key":"Year","Value":"DESC"}]&awFilter=[]

http://dealers.car.com/fas/aston martin/rapide/16056
http://dealers.autosite.com/fas/aston martin/rapide/16056
http://new.autobytel.com/fas/aston martin/rapide/16056

Oops! I wonder if AutoBytel who gave them $2.5M in funding know.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autoweb-inc

 

[Alexander Lau]

@Bill C Is there a way for a Dealer to specify or request which website VDP's are indexed? For example, our vehicles are currently displaying VDP's from our Scion site, which is the weakest site that we have. Thanks!

1. Schema.org (http://schema.org/AutoDealer, http://schema.org/AutoPartsStore, http://schema.org/AutoRepair, http://schema.org/Product, http://schema.org/ProductModel, https://schema.org/SomeProducts. The more you tell bots about your products / VDPs, the better off. Granted, it's a dynamic game being played. VDPs are not evergreen content.
2. Credible Sitemap with all VDPs.
3. Ping your Google and Bing Webmaster accounts routinely.
4. Pray to the Search gods.

 

[Alexander Lau]

Good question Emily. There are a healthy number of dealers that have multiple websites and/or have multiple dealerships that share their inventory across sites (typically used). MotoMiner will dedupe these vehicles' VDPs when displaying search results. Right now, it picks the first vehicle's VDP it comes across with no priority given. We can look into logic to add priorities. I appreciate the feedback and I'll add it to our backlog so we can try and come up with something soon.

I'd encourage you/others to use the contact feature on our website to submit questions/feedback. That way we can have a more personal/offline dialogue on enhancing MotoMiner. I'd like to know more about your site(s) so we can dig in on the scenario. Taking this offline is probably the best here.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Yes, but so do AutoTrader, Cars.com, Edmunds, etc., etc., etc., etc.

 

[Alexander Lau]

And another site enters the arena:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150214/RETAIL/150219883?template=mobile&X-IgnoreUserAgent=1

I don't see dealers listed although the articles says they are working with some. The "get quote" links offer up Edmunds, AutoByTel and others.

Nice article, but see major errors being committed below.

 

[Alexander Lau]

Although, I no longer work for WordDealer, however and ironically, I'm in the same building as the company that designed this upcoming platform.

Organically, yes, there are plenty of tactics, I take into consideration, in terms of sharing content, such as one of our newly designed and upcoming products. Organically rich and all of it can be shared via any social avenue. Compare your vehicles with saved preferences, which are indexed and shared.

Ability to compare and contrast vehicles, but even better than that, the user preference creation model. Super SEO Friendly. Create as many attributes as you like for vehicles.

 

[emilymoore]

1. Schema.org (http://schema.org/AutoDealer, http://schema.org/AutoPartsStore, http://schema.org/AutoRepair, http://schema.org/Product, http://schema.org/ProductModel, https://schema.org/SomeProducts. The more you tell bots about your products / VDPs, the better off. Granted, it's a dynamic game being played. VDPs are not evergreen content.
2. Credible Sitemap with all VDPs.
3. Ping your Google and Bing Webmaster accounts routinely.
4. Pray to the Search gods.

@Alexander Lau My question was in reference to which VDP's would be utilized within MotoMiner.com