In the continual quest to sharpen one’s SEO to a razor-like edge, there is perhaps no whetstone quite as important as keywords. After all, when someone opens up Google to make a search, they type in words. Obvious, I know, but sometimes it pays to step back and look at things in such a way as to take nothing for granted. The goal with keywords is to figure out which words someone searching for your dealership might use to find you.
It’s been two months since COVID-19 put an unexpected pause to our daily lives. Sheltering at home has produced a corresponding increase in online activity, but how does that translate to SEO? In the past two months, our team has been trying to determine just that, by monitoring the impacts to organic traffic volume, search behavior, and make/model pageviews.
Over the last few weeks we have seen Covid-19 go from a minor concern to a major obstacle in our daily lives. During this same time DealerOn as a company has taken every precaution in order to keep our employees 100% healthy and our workflow 100% operational. This includes starting our work from home initiative last week and proactively stress-testing all of our systems.
The main questions we’ve received so far are 1) Will our organic traffic be impacted? and 2) Should I pause SEO in the short term since foot traffic to the stores is going to slow down? The short answers to these two questions are 1) Yes and No and 2) No! but let me elaborate….
