When determining where your page ends up on search results, the one thing Google takes into account more than any other factor are links. Not your links, but the links from other sites to yours (known as “backlinks,” because they link back to you). Getting a lot of these backlinks is a process known as link building, and it’s one of the most important aspects of SEO.
There’s an old joke that a camel is a horse designed by committee. With its gangly legs, the face that’s somehow both goofy and smug, and of course the famous hump, you can see why. The joke gets to the core of a truism that has been at the heart of design philosophy from the beginning. That idea is, put simply, that design should have a single vision in order to be effective.
We walk around every day with a computer that has access to the bulk of all human knowledge in our pockets. Is it any shock that people want to use it? 95% of consumers research a vehicle purchase online before ever setting foot inside a dealership, and the only thing shocking about that figure is how low it is. Imagine being in the market for a car and not Googling it. That’s weird, right?
So lean into it.
The internet is the single most important public sphere in the 21st Century, and Google is how most of us navigate it. Google has leaned in to their position as the yellow pages of the future and has provided businesses with a vital tool to help customers find them. Google My Business is a free initiative from the company that does nothing more than put more eyes on your dealership. No cost to you with unlimited upside? That’s exactly the kind of thing you want to take advantage of, and we’re going to walk you through how.
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