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  1. csabatka1

    Gubagoo Falling To Pieces?

    What sites are you having issues on? I'll do some testing for you.
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    Ford Dealers, Are you receiving all new car leads routed through Ford Direct?

    I agree with this. I'll clear up on thing, the multiple names on same email address wasn't the trigger on these duplicates. It was strictly a rule based on email address and more than one new vehicle lead. The big problem is what our Ford Direct rep confirmed, Ford Direct saw a rise in lead...
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    Ford Dealers, Are you receiving all new car leads routed through Ford Direct?

    I was working on rolling out Dealer.com's Accelerate DR tool for @Dan Sayer Anderson Auto Group which has 4 Ford dealers. The setup is a little tricky because we allow the customer to select their dealership in which they would like to work with, regardless of where vehicle is located. Fast...
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    Shared Used Car Inventory! Who should get the lead?

    If you adopt it, it must be strictly enforced from the top. Early days a couple of the dealerships were resistant to shared inventory and vehicles were gamed from being traded among the group. The two most popular methods were recon ROs were left open to make it look like it was still in recon...
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    New Tool: Google My Business Review Management/Removal

    Google just rolled this tool out to manage and request removal of reviews. Note: This only works if you have a limited number of GMB profiles under your Google Account: https://support.google.com/business/workflow/9945796 For more information, check out this blog post...
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    Shared Used Car Inventory! Who should get the lead?

    I'll follow up with @Dan Sayer said because I helped design and develop that strategy when I was still at that dealer group and continue to do so. The whole process should be about the customer, not the dealership. If you really want a customer to have a great experience, they should pick their...
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    Thumbnail, toenail, supersize photos (under the hood)

    Hotlinking to vAuto/HomeNet's image URL significantly cuts down on hosting and bandwidth and ultimately expenses. A single full-sized image is usually between 300k-350k. A set of 28 full-sized images I just pulled up was 9.2 MB. They're not all this big, most were in the 6-8mb range...
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    Evolving Call to Actions - should ePrice die?

    Data from @Dan Sayer dealership's site. I'm a big proponent of inline forms. Also, look at real estate sites, they all have inline forms. The jump for inline exclusive form to CTA button was similar to what you saw. I looked at over 10,000 user messages from leads and noticed a trend of...
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    Best practices for web site inventory search functionality

    I've done a ton of testing on filters, homepage query, and search bar to see how customers get into the inventory and how they use them when on the SRP. I have a rollout in the next couple days which will track this even further and the order they were applied. My latest math around Aug/Sept of...
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    Toxic Backlinks? We are seeing an increase. Are you?

    Are you with any 3rd party listing sites CarGurus, AutoTrader, Cars, CarsForSale, Edmunds, or vendor SEO packages?
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    Toxic Backlinks? We are seeing an increase. Are you?

    Here are some domains that just popped up in both Google Search Console and a Backlink Checker tool: kingstonmillerav.de e5.kingstonmillerav.de thecarpetrecyclers.com 10.mtxh.traditionelles-yogazentrum.de carfax.blueridgenissan.co 11ss.euronett-umzug.de 18ss.euronett-umzug.de...
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    GMB Suspended Due to Quality Issues

    What information have you recently changed? Did you add areas to your SAB (service area business) outside your physical address and leave physical address displayed? Meaning you're located at 123 Main, Anytown, USA, but SAB says you service Anothertown, USA. Trying to cheat GMB... Do you have...
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    6600 Dealership Website Hack? - SpinCar At It Again? Clarivoy "hack the dom"

    TreasureData is fired by Clarivoy in http://tags-cdn.clarivoy.com/spincar/td/tva/loader.js, which is fired by u.clarivoy.script.setAttribute("src", "//tags-cdn.clarivoy.com/spincar/td/tva/loader.js") in integrator.swipetospin.com http://tags-cdn.clarivoy.com/spincar/td/tva/loader.js code: ...
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    6600 Dealership Website Hack? - SpinCar At It Again? Clarivoy "hack the dom"

    You're not reading the why. I posted it already. It's easier to include these scripts one master file, then various one-offs. If a change has to be made to any of the script, they would have to do thousands of rollouts. Keeping it all in a single master file is easiest. These scripts...
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    6600 Dealership Website Hack? - SpinCar At It Again? Clarivoy "hack the dom"

    Also need the data that is stored in "u" that this script references. It may load the script, but it might not execute it. There are a lot of if statements that I'm seeing that only execute scripts and functions or send data if specific data is contained within "u". Easiest example is this...
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    6600 Dealership Website Hack? - SpinCar At It Again? Clarivoy "hack the dom"

    My post entirely speculative in nature, but here's what I see: 1. I covered Criteo script. It's literally not doing anything, unless an account id is supplied. If that account_id is null (blank), nothing happens. It skips that entire section of code. The only way that fires if there is an...
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    6600 Dealership Website Hack? - SpinCar At It Again? Clarivoy "hack the dom"

    Can you post or link that entire criteo js file? You might be claiming it's sending data, but when it's actually not. It looks like they include this file by default to push events to an account only if the account ID is setup and not null. Your first yellow highlight...
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    Facebook Disapproving All My Ads - Anyone Else?

    From what I can see, "$2,000 Bonus Cash" are your trigger words in the first ad and "Wrangler Purchase" are the trigger words in the 2nd ad. Both are assumed that you need credit in order to qualify for the offer.
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    CarGurus and selective rule enforcement

    It's up to the states to enforce and fine these dealers for violations. It's usually up to other dealers to police this and turn in violations. Most states are pretty lenient on placement of disclaimers, as long as they are somewhere on the ad (VDP). In Nebraska this is how their law reads...
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    CarGurus - significant drop in traffic?

    It gives us enough to start forming theories or what's going on. Next, SEMRush's Position changes report do not crawl individual sites, they crawl Google SERPs (non-local) and take snapshots of the results for both mobile and desktop. Most snapshots and best data is from desktop.