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  1. Edison Freeman

    Website Promotion: Key Steps to Online Success

    In today's digital world, ensuring your website's visibility in search engines and social media is crucial for business success. Website promotion, or website marketing, is a vital strategy for attracting an online audience, increasing traffic, and strengthening your online presence. In this...
  2. George Nenni

    Google Analytics 4 Setup, Best Practices and Pitfalls

    As there is so much confusion with GA4, and some smart folks on this forum, I thought a dedicated thread could help both newbies and seasoned marketers. Hopefully by now you have setup your account(s), gotten some events firing, and marked the appropriate events as conversions. Here's a big...
  3. Steve Stauning

    Quick Question about Website Providers Maintaining a Change Log

    I've got a new client whose website has been slowing down (a lot) over the last year. Their current Average Page Load Time is north of 10 seconds, and when we asked their website provider to explain, they (of course) pointed to all the code on the site. (For whatever reason, this provider cannot...
  4. DealerRefresh RefreshFriday Ep. 2 Joe Chura CEO & Founder of Dealer Inspire sells to Cars.com

    DealerRefresh RefreshFriday Ep. 2 Joe Chura CEO & Founder of Dealer Inspire sells to Cars.com

    Ep. 2 - We speak with Joe Chura Dealer CEO & Founder of Inspire Inspire after his announcement of joining the Cars.com team. GET NOTIFIED: SUB! http://www....
  5. Kyle Gage

    New to the forum!

    New to the forum! I work for a company called Space Auto. We are a website provider, SEO, and Digital marketing company. I am relatively new to the digital field and got my start in the automotive industry in 2015, when I took a job as a sales consultant for Patterson Nissan in Longview, Tx. I...
  6. Allison.Phelps

    Cars.com The New and Improved Cars.com Is Here

    Online Car-Shopping Marketplace Launches Fresh, New Look and Features to 26 Million Monthly Visitors and Nearly 20,000 Local Dealers CHICAGO, June 28, 2021 — Cars.comTM (NYSE: CARS), a leading digital automotive marketplace and solutions provider, today announced a transformed online platform...
  7. D

    The mystery of the Dealership Website VDP URL by VIN

    Does anyone know of a redirect URL structure, for the below providers, that if you know the VIN, you can use that to get to the VDP page directly. As an example: Dealer.com uses https://www.DEALERDOMAIN.com/catcher.esl?vin=1N4AA6FV7MC501095 That then redirects to the full VDP URL Any idea...
  8. TabFlythe

    DealerAuthority Changing Website Providers? Read this first.

    Happy Friday Everyone! Here's the question of the day: Are you willing to sacrifice months of ranking loss to your dealership's website? As you prepare to migrate your dealership's website to a new platform, there are major steps that must be made to help keep your site top ranking. Let us show...
  9. Dan Sayer

    Toxic Backlinks? We are seeing an increase. Are you?

    Ladies and gents, According to my bruh, Chad Sabatka, we're seeing an increase in toxic domain names recently. We're only seeing this on a few sites, not all, trying to find out why. Finding some of this information in Google Search console, but most he's getting from SEM Rush backlink...
  10. Christopher Reggie

    Making Dealership Websites ADA Compliant

    Hey everyone, I just wrote a new blog regarding ADA compliance. Check it out here: https://www.digital1group.com/blog/2019/08/26/ada-compliance/ - Christopher Reggie
  11. George Nenni

    Dealer.com WWW issue for Secure Sites

    I've searched the forum and can't find a post on this, so figured I would throw it out there to help folks not aware of the issue. If you have a Dealer.com site, and are on the secure version (https), if you remove the WWW from the URL, the site won't resolve. Chrome gives an error: This...
  12. George Nenni

    Automotive-websites holding dealers' Google Analytics history hostage?

    Ugh. Come on, really? Major automotive website companies (nameless at the moment), ad agencies also, telling dealers, "Sorry we can't transfer Admin for your Google Analytics, since we own that." So the dealer doesn't own their historical website performance stats? Aren't they paying you to...
  13. George Nenni

    Best Practices for helping dealers avoid pixel-data-miners?

    And I use the term pixel loosely. A very enlightened Refresher turned me on to the Ghostery Chrome app, I've got that stacked along with the Facebook Pixel Helper app, my goal is to help dealers get clarity on who may be harvesting website visitors for competitive-conquesting purposes. Any...
  14. GerryFoster

    Thank you pages, Form abandonment tracking

    My apologies if this has been posted before. I looked through some of the search results for the forum and didn't see it right away... I come from the land of agency work and have switched into an in-house role in a dealership. It has its fair share of challenges to be sure but the one I...
  15. George Nenni

    Any Google SiteLink Experts out there?

    I met with a medium size dealer group today, they presented an interesting challenge that I can't seem to find a successful example of, or an answer to. They have 6 or so stores, and they want their group-site SiteLinks to appear on Google organic search with each store listed. Typically with...
  16. Nicolas Hesson

    Dealer.com is driving me nuts, what is the best alternative?

    Since being in the car business, I've always been stuck with Dealer.com. My biggest issue with them is that it takes FOREVER to get an update done to the website. Even if I do the coding myself, it takes forever for them to add one. And besides the fact they want to charge you for every little...
  17. Alexander Lau

    DealerInspire + Clarivoy

    http://content.clarivoy.com/dealerinspire Clarivoy and Dealer Inspire have partnered to take ROI attribution technology to the next level. By joining forces, Dealer Inspire will now be able to give dealers ROI insight from sales that come from verified website leads and anonymous online...
  18. Carluminati

    Sticky Website Headers

    I like sticky headers, how about you? When you get to a website, one of the most annoying things to me is having the top header disappear as you scroll down, so you have to always scroll back up to see the menu and other things. I think sticky headers are the way to go on all devices, as well as...
  19. Carluminati

    Uncover your competitions technology with BuiltWith.com

    I love accidently finding amazing websites and one recently discovered is now in my top 10 bucket. Builtwith.com - it let's you see your competitions stack! Here is DealerRefresh Profile: https://builtwith.com/dealerrefresh.com
  20. Ryan Hartigan

    What Did You Pay for Your Dealer Websites?

    Hey everyone, I'm wondering what you have paid to have your dealer website created, or what you pay a third-party to maintain it. One of my previous clients paid $40K for a fully-fleshed out Wordpress site, with a nice inventory plugin, and a thorough finance application that did "progressive...