6 best practices for automotive email blasts

6 Best Practices for Automotive Email Blasts

Email marketing offers an easy method to reach a wide range of potential customers. However, dozens of emails flood a single inbox on a daily basis. Make your dealership’s messages stand out by following these six best practices for automotive email blasts. Day of the Week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are typically the best days to send emails. People are …

difference between SEO & content marketing

What’s the Difference Between Search Engine Optimization and Content Marketing?

Two of the most important methods to drive to your dealership’s website are search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing. Some people mistakenly use the terms interchangeably; however, they are not the same thing. If you’re one of those wondering, “What’s the difference between SEO and content marketing?” the simple way to explain it is that content marketing is the …

Securing Your Facebook and Other Social Media Accounts

Securing Your Facebook and Other Social Media Accounts

While having social media posts that create engagement and increase followers are often the focus for many businesses, a social media account or page that winds up in the wrong hands can wreak havoc. That’s why it’s crucial not only to monitor who has access to your social media accounts and how much control they have, but also to know …

New Google Business Profile Is Now LIVE!

New Google Business Profile Format Is Now LIVE!

In August 2022, Search Engine Roundtable found that Google was testing an expanded Google Business Profile format in Google Web Search. As of late October 2022, that new format looks to be live for everyone, meaning you’ll have an easier way to edit your dealership’s profile.  Instead of navigating through several clicks to perform edits, once you’re logged in as …

Chumney Ads Offers Google Performance Max

With all the ways auto shoppers can purchase their next vehicle, your inventory needs to get in front of as many customers as possible. Enter Google Performance Max. This new goal-based campaign expands across all of Google’s channels – YouTube, Display, Search, Discover, Gmail, Maps, and Business Profile – and provides several benefits. You’ll appear in all of Google’s ad …

Benefits of video in your social media strategy

The Benefits of Video in Your Social Media Strategy

The numbers are in, and they show that the amount of time adults use social media across all platforms has reached an all-time high of 95 minutes per day. Of that time spent on those platforms, videos are quickly becoming the most consumed form of content. Marketing campaigns that include videos on social media platforms have 34% higher conversion rates, and …

3 Things to Know About Google’s ‘Content Update’

As Google Search continues to evolve to provide users with the most relevant results, Chumney & Associates always takes Google’s insights to heart and adjusts our methods to follow its suggestions for best practices. Google Search recently released what it calls a “helpful content update” to outline its efforts to make sure users find real content created by real people …

Making Google’s Front Page

What started out as a local SEO content page about the 2020 Ford Bronco release for our client Bill Currie Ford ended up ranking on a national level. When searching for “new 2020 Ford Bronco,” the page we produced for this client landed near the top of the national organic search results. Our SEO Approach One of our main approaches …