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Dominion Dealer Solutions [formally DEALERSKINS] – Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews

We have used Dealerskins for over a year now. Their SEO seems to be decent, but their overall design lacks tremendously. I may be nitpicking due to my web design background but I feel we could do better. Their support is average thus far since I took over the position of Internet Manager. Ive contacted them twice about re-design options but have yet to hear back from a project manager of any kind. We are currently searching other options such as Dealer.com and Dealeron.com.

Dealerskins backend site manager is very archaic. The site editor is very limited for anyone with any kind of basic HTML experience. Their design optons would be good for a dealership who is looking to update from a site built in 1995, but if you are looking anything "cutting edge" you might look elsewhere.

Ultimately, you get what you pay for so be careful.
 
Main issues I had with Dealerskins sites is that their URL's were hidden. Every page of your website had the same url and made for SEO nightmare. Not to mention when you wanted to link from blogs back to your site..all you could do was the home page, due to the one url.

I had to call into to them to get the hidden page names for our Credit Application, Specials, etc..so that I could link. This is why they are a huge SEO nightmare. After I did massive SEO work on the sites we were much better. But this is an issue that a big Dealer Webdesign Company should know better about.