Playing with Squidoo Again

My business that provides Craigslist for Car Dealers is really taking off.  One thing this does is give me access to dealers used car inventory.  So now my VA is helping promote their inventory even more by using squidoo.com.

Here is an example of a lens she made for Brunswick Used Car Dealers, you will notice that it has an RSS feed of a dealers inventory and really is not designed for affiliate conversion other than a banner after the inventory.  That not the primary purpose of the lens in of itself.  It is designed to get people to call a dealer and view their inventory.

Chances are we will also create another property very similar to the one we found for a New Jersey used car dealer to help get more eyes on their inventory and increase phone calls to the dealership with some affiliate monetization in place as well.  This is what the big classified providers do such as Cox Auto Trader.  The difference is I do not charge thousands of dollars per month to distribute their inventory.

Eventually this type of Automotive SEO will help my customers get an even greater bank for thier buck.

Technorati Tags: automotive SEO, craigslist for car dealers, brunswick used car dealers, new jersey used car dealers

Technorati as a SEO tool?

Recently I have been helping a friend of mine on a couple of projects and have been optimizing some blogs in the different search aggregation services like Technorati.com and notice that my blog about Automotive SEO has lost all of its technorati authority.

This is really puzzling because it has has over 100 blog reactions, but I have noticed that the service seems to be going through some pains as of late.  It shows my last three post as being added three days ago and they finally have the right preview image up after over a year of waiting.

Hopefully it is an algorithm change they are going through and things will pick back up over time.  Technorati is almost wikipediaish but it just really puzzles me that this has happened.  I just hope that it does not hurt my site long term.

Reviving Old Properties for SEO

I have several old properties that do get a little bit of traffic and have not been update for quite sometime.  So now I am reviving a sleeping giant of a blog network mostly to help clients get traffic to their sites like my Hyundai blog.

What is cool this is stepping me up to be a thought leader in Automotive SEO as may follow my content around and try to duplicate what I am doing.  What they fail to understand my process is more than just dropping a few links every now and then.

Unfortunately I have to work on some laundering for this network to revive properly and it will take some time.




Technorati Tags: hyundai dealer blogs, automotive seo