There is so much emphasis placed on innovation that sometimes the core concepts get lost in the minutia. When we started Dealer Authority in 2013, the goal was to create the premier content marketing agency that would help dealers with both social media marketing and search engine optimization as well as other aspects of their[…]
Yes, We Do SEO for Car Dealers and it’s Amazing
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Our Services, Uncategorized, VDP Marketing Apr 23, 2015
How to Use Multipurpose Content on your Dealership Website
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Mar 08, 2015
As we’ve discussed many times, content is considered to be “king” in automotive digital marketing. This is true, but with a catch. Just as the King of England in centuries past was more powerful than the King of Zamunda, so too can content have different degrees of power over your marketing. The key is knowing[…]
Getting ‘Aggressive’ Means Investing in the Dealership’s Marketing Today for Tomorrow (and today)
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, General, Uncategorized Feb 25, 2015
We’ve been told that our blog titles can be confusing. It’s my hope that the trend does not translate over to our products and services sounding confusing as well. They’re really not. In fact, they’re about as straightforward as it gets. The automotive industry is currently experiencing an “up” era on the trend lines. This[…]
Learning from Outside of Automotive Brings Innovations to Car Dealers
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Feb 18, 2015
Ours is such an isolated industry. There are many reasons for this – some good, some bad. Let’s take a look at what makes the car business so special and the things we all can do to make it better. First and foremost, there’s a reason that outside companies rarely succeed when they try to[…]
Content by Itself is Like Serving Broth as Soup
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Jan 16, 2015
If you don’t like soup, you should still read this article. If you think your search engine optimization is doing okay, you should still read this article. In the soup and SEO worlds, what we think we like today can be usurped by something with more flavor. It was hard to draw this comparison on[…]
The Biggest Reason that Bad SEO is Costing Your Dealership Money
By JDRucker Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Jan 13, 2015
Search engine optimization has improved dramatically in the car business over the last couple of years. More dealers are paying attention to it. More vendors are improving their automotive SEO services. Things are great… or are they? I remember in the early days of SEO. I had just left the retail side of the industry[…]
Dealership SEO – Final Call for Exclusivity Clients
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, News, Uncategorized Dec 17, 2014
It is with extreme excitement and a hint of sadness that we bring 2014 to a close with a “last call” of sorts. As search, social, and content continue to merge into a unified strategy for car dealers, we will be launching our new services in early 2015. As a result, a la carte exclusive[…]
Don’t Fear Links. Fear Bad Links.
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Sep 19, 2014
If there’s one thing about automotive SEO vendors that really chaps my khakis, it’s when they spread the disinformation that inbound links are bad. They’re not. In fact, they can be very, very good for rankings. It’s important to know the difference between good links and bad links. Here’s the backstory: the Google Penguin update[…]
Automotive Search and Social is Like Stand Hunting vs Still Hunting
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Sep 02, 2014
I am not an animal hunter. I’ve shot one animal in my life and that was plenty for me. With that said, I have gone hunting enough to understand that there’s a similarity between two of the major types of deer hunting styles and two of the biggest methods of digital marketing. Search engine marketing[…]
Learning to Embrace Your OEM-Mandated Wesbite
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Jul 20, 2014
If there’s one thing that we don’t like, it’s conforming. There are plenty of companies out there that conform to the limitations set forth by OEMs and we’re normally not one of them. Most dealers are okay with doing what their OEMs demand when it comes to websites as can be clearly seen with certain[…]