Nick, sorry to hear you're going through this.
I had written an article years ago (never published it) on why dealers should be careful when spending a ton of money with on-going SEO programs/services on a dealer website they don't really own.
[USER=3505]@craigh[/USER] feel free to step in and correct me if my advice it's on par or excluding some technicalities that need reinforcement.
No matter what website provider you're using, isn't there a way to scrape/back-up any main static content page(s) to a remote space? Obviously you wouldn't save dynamic pages such a VDPs, SRPs and Specials but anything outside of that - especially pages optimized for search would be saved all way down to the URL. This would allow your new website provider re-create and match the pages, titles, descriptions and URL.
If a blog is part of your SEO strategy, wouldn't it be beneficial is have a it hosted on a sub-domain that you control? At the very least, if it were WordPress you could export all your pages, data and content and then re-upload everything back with the new provider (or taking that opportunity to move your sub-domain hosted blog away from any outside vendor.) [USER=3505]@craigh[/USER] would this be possible to do with a blog hosted on the main domain VS a sub-domain?
dealerblog.dealerwebsite.com VS dealerwebsite/blog/dealerblog
