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Link Building for Car Dealerships

A car dealership's link building starts by fixing two official pages that often point to the wrong place: the manufacturer's dealer locator and the finance partner's list.

Local sponsorships, charity drives and clubs the dealership already supports bring the next links, aimed at pages that deserve them.

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Car dealership sales advisor presenting cars in stock and finance options in a showroom

Online challenges for car dealerships

Generic pitches to editors and links aimed only at the homepage waste time, while the pages people actually check before they choose get nothing.

The brand's dealer page links to the wrong place

A franchised dealer is listed by the manufacturer and by its finance partner, and those entries often point to an old address or the home page.

  • Getting them to point to the right pages is quick work that is rarely done.
  • Links to individual cars expire when the car is sold, so they need lasting pages instead.

Sponsorships that earn a logo and no link

Dealerships support local clubs, schools and events, and the thanks usually come as a logo without a link.

  • Asking organisers for a link to a page about the partnership costs nothing.
  • Driving schools and local businesses that run fleets name their dealer if someone asks them to.

Link Building approach for car dealerships

For car dealerships, we plan Link Building around sites that fit your topic, pages that earn clicks once the link is live, and a pace you can defend.

The brand's dealer page and the lender's partner list

A franchised dealer has two official sources that should link to it and often do so badly.

  • The manufacturer's dealer locator is checked for the right name, departments and a link to your own site, where the brand allows one.
  • Finance and leasing companies you place business with often publish their partner dealers, and insurers and warranty providers do the same, each a link that confirms a real commercial tie.

Local life that a dealership is already part of

A dealership is a large local business, and it usually supports more than it gets credit for.

  • Sports clubs with a sponsored minibus, charities that borrowed a car for an event and schools that visited the workshop mention their supporters on their sites, and we ask that the mention includes a link.
  • Local media cover a new showroom, an apprenticeship scheme or the arrival of an electric model, provided someone sends them facts and a good photo.

Pages that deserve a link, and those that do not

A link to a car that will soon be sold is wasted.

  • We direct links to pages that last: the brand page, used cars as a whole, the workshop, finance explained and the guides to models you know well.
  • Owners' clubs and motoring forums link to a dealer who answers a technical question usefully in public, so the workshop foreman's knowledge is worth writing down. No links are bought.

Link Building process for car dealerships

01

Link audit

We check which sites link to you now, which links look doubtful and which of your pages deserve links first.

02

Who would link, and why

We list the businesses and organisations with a real reason to mention you, and the page each link should point to. For dealers, we start with the brand's dealer locator and the lenders' partner lists, then the clubs, events and charities the dealership already supports, and leave stock pages out of it.

03

Outreach and content

We contact them with something worth linking to, and we never buy links.

04

Checking each link

We check every new link, the visits it sends and whether the page it points to gains ground in search.

Price: link building for car dealerships from €400 a month plus VAT for the basic scope, three-month minimum. A wider scope is quoted after a free audit.

At the dealership: comparing cars, checking finance options and booking a test drive

How we measure results for car dealerships

We count links into model, service and company pages, which stay online, and the test drives those pages bring.

Questions about Link Building for car dealerships

Plain answers about Link Building, written for car dealerships.

Finance and leasing partners, insurers, the clubs and charities you support, local media, owners' clubs for the brands you sell and businesses whose fleets you supply.

  • A dealership has more genuine local ties than most firms.
  • The work lies in asking for them to be shown, and in having a page worth linking to.

They bring buyers, which is their purpose, but as links they do little.

  • They are usually marked so that search engines do not follow them, and they point to cars that soon disappear.
  • Keep the listings for the enquiries they bring.
  • For links that last, look to partners and local sources that point to your permanent pages.

Yes, when it is simply part of being named as a sponsor.

  • Clubs list their supporters anyway, and a link helps their members find you.
  • What we avoid is sponsoring something only to obtain the link, or asking for wording stuffed with search terms.
  • The name of the dealership as it stands on the sign is the right text.

The workshop often earns them more easily.

  • A clear guide to service intervals, to what a warning light means or to looking after the battery of an electric car is something owners' clubs and local sites refer to.
  • Fleet customers can also name you as their service partner.
  • Those links lead to the workshop pages, which need them most.

General questions about Link Building, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

FAQ: Link Building

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