There’s a hole in the world of automotive marketing that many dealers have been unable to properly fill. Content marketing has been a huge component of general internet marketing for years, but in our industry it has fallen short of its potential. The biggest challenge is, of course, time; who has enough time to put[…]
Automotive Content Marketing
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Our Services, Uncategorized May 01, 2016
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[…]
Automotive Content Marketing, 2015: Today’s Option is Tomorrow’s Necessity
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Authority, General, Uncategorized Sep 24, 2014
It would be hard to find one or two out of a 100 car dealers in the country that are truly utilizing content marketing as a strategy for search and social. That’s fine by us – the fewer who do it, the easier it is for us to help clients stand out. However, it won’t[…]
It’s About Content that People Want to See… and Share
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Jan 06, 2014
One of the most eye-opening conversations that I’ve ever had in my marketing career happened the other day when a client was discussing content strategy with me. It was one of those moments in which the significance doesn’t hit for a couple of days. This one hit me like a medicine ball to the face.[…]
Content Marketing is About Quality, Not Size
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, Uncategorized Dec 28, 2013
If you didn’t know who Bruce Lee or Kareem Abdul Jabbar were and the two were stacked up next to each other ready to fight, you’d probably put your money on the huge, muscular Jabbar rather than the miniscule Lee. In the incomplete movie, Game of Death, Lee beats Jabbar in a fight. It was[…]
Why We’re Betting High on Tumblr
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Dec 01, 2013
When we first started using Tumblr in my former company about six years ago, we had challenges finding the real value for dealers. Sure, it was a quick and easy blogging platform that had a growing community and the potential for greatness, but the community within Tumblr seemed to be heading away from our clients’[…]
NEVER Automate Your Website Content
By JDRucker Automotive Content, General, Uncategorized Nov 15, 2013
Some trends just won’t die. Since 2011, Google and Bing have handed down stiff retribution against those who create bulk content in an effort to fool the search engines. Automatic page generation has been around for a long time and was extremely effective before the Panda update. That pretty much killed it… or so we[…]
Do Not Scrape Content
By JDRucker Automotive Content, General, Uncategorized Nov 15, 2013
There are times when shortcuts make sense. Content creation is not one of those times. You absolutely, positively never want to scrape content from another website in order to try to bulk it up.