Promotion of a car dealership

  • Site

    subjects:

    Geely car dealership, car sales

  • Promotion

    region:

    Minsk (Borovaya), Minsk region, except Soligorsk

  • Beginning of

    cooperation:

    November 2020

Summary of results:

  • To 82.6%

    site visibility increased

  • From 1 to 59%

    % of keys in Top 5 increased

  • 17 times

    organic traffic increased

Project objectives:

1
Increase of traffic on the site
2
Increase in calls from the site to the sales department / service department
3
Increase of salon recognition

It was necessary to clearly form the client's perception "if Geely, then only in AtlantM on Borovoy".

To do it through completeness, convenience of information search, through advantages, convenience of communication, etc.

The region of promotion is limited

It is impossible to promote in other cities where there is already a Geely showroom of another dealer or a showroom from their holding, for example, in Soligorsk.

Thus, the client can only promote in Minsk and Minsk region, except for Soligorsk.

If their advertisement is seen in other cities, they face a big fine from the distributor. But any activity where it is impossible to display GEO is allowed.

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There are many brand representatives in RB, so the factory has developed a directive, according to which each dealer has the right to advertise only in his region.

Competition with the holding company itself

Geely-atlantm.by are part of the holding https://atlantm.by/ , which are also promoted and compete with them in rendition for the main queries. You can only buy autos online at https://atlantm.by/.

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On Geely the fiercest competition within the brand. 13 dealership centers Geely in Belarus. And the main ones are located in Minsk. Therefore, even before the start of optimization, we analyzed the client's advantages in relation to other dealers.

Initial data

A client came to us with a new domain and website. It was 1,5 years old. Before that, they had a 1 year old website that brought traffic and conversions. After moving to a full website the conversions were lower.

Initially the client came in with a request for a standard promotion plan, but after diving into the project, we suggested that they conduct an audit-strategy, on the basis of which to build a promotion strategy for the project.

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Veronica

Team-lead SEO-department

What went into the audit strategy:

  • semantic core collection
  • site structure preparation
  • content plan preparation
  • technical audit of the site
  • competitor analysis by technical parameters
  • usability analysis of the client's site and competitors' sites, preparation of recommendations
  • analyzing the link profile of the client's site and competitors' sites, preparing a strategy for building external links

Stages of work:

  • Semantic core collection

  • Competitive analysis

  • Usability analysis

  • Technical audit

  • Link profile analysis

  • Content optimization

  • Promotion strategy

Semantic core collection

1

To begin with, we made a semantic kernel of the site and on its basis made the structure of the site. The site lacked a lot of target important pages, which could lead a large number of frequency queries, respectively bring traffic to the site.

This business has no pronounced seasonality, but the client noted some peculiarities.

1

Sale of new cars:

Peak in spring (March-April), fall (with the beginning of the school year) and under the new year (as dealers sell out of stock)

2

Service (car maintenance):

The high season of service load during tire service is spring (March-April) and fall (November).

Seasonal services, for example, air conditioner refueling before the summer season.

3

Body repair:

Peak before winter

Competitive analysis

2

We analyzed the competitors that are in the top by collected keywords, by technical indicators (site visibility, trust, spam, age, number of pages in the index, etc.).

Among the competitors in the output are not only sites of other Geely dealers, but also sites that sell cars of different brands - aggregator sites, which makes it difficult to promote.

Usability analysis

3

We analyzed the client's website and its competitors in terms of usability.

The new website, according to the client, had a lower conversion rate compared to the lending site. Therefore, we suggested making changes to the site that would make it more user-friendly and attractive. This will help to raise positions in search results.

We also took into account the new structure of the site.

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Technical audit

4

We made a technical audit of the site. Prepared TOR for programmers. Some conclusions based on the audit results:

  • Adjust sitemap.xml: add missing pages there, add priority tags, changefreq, replace all URLs with canonical ones.
  • Optimize PDF files.
  • Increase site loading speed on mobile devices.
  • Remove 404 and 301 links with server response codes and others.
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Analyzing the link profile

5

Analyzed the link profile of the site and its main competitors and developed a strategy for obtaining links.

Let's go back to the promotion region restrictions

We could not place on regional sites where there are already other Geely dealers.

Therefore, we decided to focus on the main sites to get links that are not tied to a particular region. That is, we chose to cover the whole of Belarus or Minsk.

Content optimization

6

Checked texts on the site and made a content plan. Wrote new material and tweaked existing material.

Features:

  • The site had little content to compete with other sites.
  • When writing the texts, we took into account the existing blocks on the site so that the content harmonized with the design and took this into account when making usability recommendations. We also suggested page additions to make the enlarged texts fit the design.

Promotion strategy

7

After all the audits, we developed a 6-month promotion strategy.

We started with content preparation, meta tags and link building. At the same time we made technical corrections and improved usability on the site.

First of all, we eliminated critical technical errors and created new pages for each car model.

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Promotion results:

During the whole period of cooperation, the client suspended promotion work for 1 year due to business difficulties, as Geely factory suspended production of cars. Our team did not have time to implement everything according to the strategy we proposed to the client.

Having resumed promotion, we managed to realize most of the proposed works in half a year, which gave good and fast results. During the time of our cooperation, the website positions and website traffic increased.

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Positions in rendition

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Top-5

Keyword percentage increased from 1 to 59%

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Top-10

Keyword percentage increased from 2 to 79%

Growth of site impressions

The site Geely-atlantm.by's share of impressions became higher than all competitors on tracked semantics.

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Site visibility increased from 0.8% to 62.6%

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Free traffic increased 17 times

From 1056 users per month to 16751 users.
The main growth started in 2023 after continued work on site promotion.

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Summary

Despite all the limitations, our quality SEO optimization leads to success.

We did this by conducting an audit strategy, optimizing content and technical aspects of the site. We not only increased traffic, but also attracted targeted users. This is confirmed by the fact that the number of hits from the site has increased 3 times.

The conclusion is the same: Nothing is impossible, there is an ineffective strategy.

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Аnastasia

ACCOUNT MANAGER

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