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    Transparency in vendor pricing

    I will write my response both as a system provider and also a customer. As a customer first, nothing ticks me off more than going to a website to find out information on a product or service only to find "Call now" for pricing. So what do I do? I close that tab and I look at the competitors...
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    Traffic Sources?

    Paul, Unfortunately since I was strictly looking at referring host information I do not know how many directly typed the dealer's website address into the URL and how they came in.
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    Traffic Sources?

    For the year long study of the data each website had its own tracking code, so Advanced Segments will not work because that would be limited to that one site. For the week's data I wrote some scripts to analyze the apache access logs to figure out the referring host. I can work on those...
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    Traffic Sources?

    Joe, Give me a little time and let me see what I can come up with.
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    Traffic Sources?

    Here is an updated chart showing the traffic for the past week. 70% of traffic is coming from Google and Craigslist. Since a few have asked about carsforsale in here, they were # 43 in ranking with 44 unique hits sent to the dealer's websites.
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    Traffic Sources?

    Well if you go from the raw numbers in the traffic study, they do not appear to send very much traffic back to your website.
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    Traffic Sources?

    I completely agree with you guys that CL is a clunky, spam ridden, pile of junk, that can be a real pain to deal with (both on seller and buyer side). But it is bringing traffic. I too also wonder what the bounce rate is and if this traffic is converting or not. This is something I would like...
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    Traffic Sources?

    Looking at the numbers I have seen a large increase in Craigslist hits over the past 6 months. I haven't had the time to go back and recompile the numbers based upon the past 6 months only (instead of the 1 year), if I were I bet Craigslist would have a higher percentage.
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    You Can Now Convert Your Facebook Profile to a Facebook Page

    Thanks Drew! I get this question from dealers all the time, now I actually have an answer for them. Thanks again
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    Traffic Sources?

    I was wondering if anyone else has seen similar (or dissimilar) traffic behavior?
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    Traffic Sources?

    Hi Jeff, Yes that was between May 10th 2010 and May 10th 2011. Also keep in mind they are small "mom & pop" used car dealerships, each with give or take 20-30 vehicles in inventory at any given time. Steven
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    Listing of all the Dealership Website Hosting Companies

    Alex, How about my company AutoCorner (www.AutoCorner.com). To add a few to your list: DealerCarSearch Carsforsale JTZ Enterprise
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    Websitegrader.com and Compete.com

    Joe, I completely agree. Sometimes I think people get to wrapped up in the specifics. Sometimes you just need to step back and ask "what do the customers want?"
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    Traffic Sources?

    Afternoon Guys, I know I haven't been in the forums in awhile, but for the past few days I have had a question in my head and I am looking for some input. My question is where does most of the incoming web traffic for car dealer sites come from? I did a quick study of some sites I had...
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    Is this legit?

    Joe, I didn't know of Copyscape, that is great. thanks
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    Is this legit?

    Jon, I am guessing you are referring to the Jetta TDI review that was obviously lifted from Checkered Flag's site. I looked at the source code and the file is even named 2010-eoscheckeredflagreview.swf and is behind hosted at streamhoster.com. From a legal standpoint, when you post a video...
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    iPhone 4 - who got one?

    We have been running iOS 4 (at the time it was called iPhone OS 4) for the past few months and love the new features. The folders are great. On the new hardware I have mine on order and a few others at the office are getting theirs upgraded too. Can't wait. Next iPhone release I'm sending...
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    Hi-Jacking Domain Names

    Loun, I completely agree. I do wish more dealers would have a GoDaddy account (or similar) and pre-register the domain for multiple years. Steven
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    Website dashboard

    Thank you for your input, I have taken notes from them. Any one else have any ideas?
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    Hi-Jacking Domain Names

    ghen, As a businessman of course I want to use the mistakes of my competitors to my advantage to increase market share. This is no different than Steve Jobs making statements of the missteps of RIM and Google when he advertises the iPhone. This aside, I do take offense to companies that think...
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