Dealer SEO is rarely broken in one place.
It's quietly broken in twelve.
The OEM platform locks down the head. The feed silently drops VINs. Canonicals get crossed. GBP listings sit half-finished. Title patterns repeat across a thousand pages. Nobody owns it, and the agency report only shows green arrows.
We do SEO differently: senior people on the account, every fix tied to a model-year keyword and a sold unit, monthly executive reviews that read like a paragraph instead of a spreadsheet.
Every page, every feed, every entity.
Ranked by what actually moves units.
VDP optimization
Every Vehicle Detail Page indexed, structured, and competing for model-year intent.
- Title pattern: {Year} {Make} {Model} {Trim} for sale in {City}
- Vehicle schema with offers, mileage, VIN, condition
- Image alt text generated from VIN data
- Crawl budget tuned for high-velocity inventory
- Stale VDP cleanup and 301 chains
SRP architecture
Search Result Pages that earn rank for category and use-case queries, not just inventory dumps.
- Faceted navigation that doesn't tank crawl
- Pagination + canonical strategy
- Internal linking from model pages to SRPs
- JSON-LD ItemList for top-tier SRPs
- Body copy on top SRPs (yes, it matters)
Inventory feed indexing
Your inventory feed is the most important file on your site. We treat it that way.
- Homenet, vAuto, DealerSocket integration
- Daily feed health monitoring + alerts
- VIN-decode enrichment for thin VDPs
- Google Merchant / Vehicle Listings feed
- Bing + DDG inventory feed coverage
Schema architecture
AutoDealer at the org. Vehicle on every VDP. FAQ on every model page. Review wherever you have GBP stars.
- AutoDealer organization markup
- Vehicle schema (Year, Make, Model, Trim, VIN, Mileage)
- FAQPage on model & comparison pages
- Review + AggregateRating from GBP
- BreadcrumbList sitewide
Local + GBP
Multi-rooftop or single store, the local pack is where the test drives come from. We treat it as a primary channel.
- GBP completeness + monthly post cadence
- Service-page coverage for every model + service
- Citations across 75 dealer-relevant directories
- Review velocity + response automation
- Geo-grid rank tracking by service area
Content engine
Model pages, comparison pages, locale pages. Built for the long tail that closes deals.
- Model-year buyer guides for top 25 SKUs
- Versus pages (your top trim vs. nearest competitor)
- Suburb + neighborhood landing pages
- Buyer-intent FAQs (trade-in, finance, lease)
- Editorial calendar tied to OEM launches
Your feed is the most important file on your site.
We monitor it like infrastructure.
You'll know exactly what we did, what moved, and why.
Every month you get an executive report and a working session. We tie rank gains to VDP impressions, VDP impressions to sessions, sessions to leads, and leads to sold units. The narrative is one paragraph. Everything else is the receipts.
- Executive summary (1 page, plain English)
- Rank gains by priority keyword
- VDP impression growth and feed health
- Local pack visibility by rooftop
- Sold-unit attribution (CRM matched)
- Next month's work + decisions needed
The work, the numbers,
and the names you can call.
Tactical Fleet
Rebuilt SRP architecture and rolled out a model-year content engine across the network. Sold-unit attribution tied back to CRM weekly.
Bentley Denver
Took the #1 luxury dealer in the Mountain region from page-2 local results to dominant map-pack visibility across 14 model-specific queries.
CarsandPickups.com
Built a content and SEO engine that now ranks CarsandPickups.com for category and build-package terms buyers search from every state.
The 90-day SEO build.
Plumbing first. Rankings second.
- Step 01Week 1-2
Crawl, feed, and schema audit.
We crawl your full inventory site, profile every URL pattern, check feed health and parity, and validate your schema graph. Output is a tear-down doc with prioritized fixes.
Deliverables- Full technical audit (200+ checks)
- Feed health + parity report
- Schema validation across templates
- Keyword + competitor gap analysis
- Step 02Weeks 3-6
Technical foundation + schema rollout.
Before chasing rankings, we fix the plumbing. Canonicals, sitemaps, indexation, schema graph, GBP completeness, citations. Boring fixes that compound.
Deliverables- Canonical + indexation cleanup
- AutoDealer + Vehicle + FAQ schema
- GBP completeness across rooftops
- Citation audit + cleanup
- Step 03Month 2-3
Content engine + local rollout.
Model-year buyer guides, comparison pages, suburb landing pages. Local pages for every service area. Internal link architecture that funnels authority into VDPs.
Deliverables- Top-25 model-year buyer guides
- Versus + comparison pages
- Service-area landing pages
- Internal linking rebuild
- Step 04Month 3+
Optimize, scale, and prove.
Weekly optimization. Monthly executive review tied to sold-unit attribution. Quarterly strategy planning. Annual KPI reset against sales targets.
Deliverables- Weekly optimization standup
- Monthly executive report with sold-unit attribution
- Quarterly content roadmap
- Annual KPI + budget reset
The SEO questions
every dealer GM asks.
Real answers to the questions dealer GMs and marketing directors ask on the first call. Anything we miss, get on the phone with us.
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Free. Three business days. Yours to keep.
A senior strategist reviews your site, technical SEO, feed health, schema graph, GBP completeness, local visibility, and competitive position. You get a 20+ page PDF with prioritized fixes. No call required.
- Delivered in 3 business days
- Senior SEO strategist (not a tool)
- 200+ checks tuned for dealer marketing
- Yours to keep · no sales pressure