On the back-end side, I have noticed that their new "smart blog" system is no longer adding out of area SEO tags.
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What in the Heck is Going On With my Dealer.com sites in Google SRP's?????
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Just had a meeting here in my office today. I'm pretty sure I figured out a way on how to fix this problem!
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It helps when the CMS:
a) was built by people who are still at the company
b) was built in this decade
It helps when the CMS:
a) was built by people who are still at the company
b) was built in this decade
DealerInspire is built on WordPress, a platform built in 2003
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DealerInspire is built on WordPress, a platform built in 2003
Big difference: over 1/3rd of the Internet is on Wordpress.
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This is a fact.DealerInspire is built on WordPress, a platform built in 2003
Hence the threat vector dilemma.
I do love WordPress though, just for static content sites.
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There are some bad ass, customized (theme) sites out there built on WP. I wrote up a giant explanation on why to use DI and WP about 5 years ago. I think it lives on ADM, buried in that crappy NING site.
Some/many of my favorite sites and themes are WordPress. No question there. The dilemma is that WordPress is one of the most targeted platforms in the world for this reason. When an exploit is found by the wrong people, it can be devastating. The thing many don’t realize is that themes and plugins aren’t updated like the core is. Countless themeforest themes still contain a totally vulnerable version of timthumb that allows you to run php code on the host server. It’s a wild world that I love/hate.
Custom development on top of it, like DI, is considerably safer, but users can still open vulnerabilities.
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Rick Buffkin reported that his Dealer.com (DDC) website is displaying incorrect page titles and meta descriptions in Google search results—showing other dealerships' names and locations instead of his own—and discovered the issue affects multiple other DDC clients as well. The thread explores whether this is a database corruption, security breach, or technical glitch, with community members advising escalation and noting that while some DDC sites appear unaffected, others show the same problem. The key takeaway is that this appears to be a widespread Dealer.com platform issue requiring urgent attention from their technical team, with uncertainty about how long the problem has persisted and what impact it may have on search rankings and ad quality scores.
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