eXtéresAUTO Wins ‘HIGHEST RATED’ DrivingSales Vendor Ratings Award
ORLANDO, Fla.--The winners of the 2009 DrivingSales Vendor Ratings Awards were unveiled today, and eXtéresAUTO received the ‘Highest Rated’ ranking in dealer satisfaction for SEO. The awards program bestows one top ranking across nine major vendor categories – from websites, to third-party leads, to CRM - as determined by the thousands of dealers who are part of the DrivingSales community. eXtéresAUTO not only ranked #1 in SEO, they were the only ‘Top Rated’ vendor that combined a 4.9/5-star rating with an overall dealer recommendation rate of 98%.
“We’re especially honored to win this #1-rated SEO award from DrivingSales, because their program uniquely measures the honest, real-world opinions of thousands of dealers who actually use these products and services”
“We’re especially honored to win this #1-rated SEO award from DrivingSales, because their program uniquely measures the honest, real-world opinions of thousands of dealers who actually use these products and services,” noted eXtéresAUTO CEO, Richard Winch.
The awards will be presented at the 2010 NADA Convention in Orlando. The ‘Highest’ and ‘Top-Rated’ vendors will be featured in the inaugural issue of the DrivingSales Dealership Innovation Guide. The Guide, which also features cutting-edge, proven best practices, also spotlights eXtéresAUTO dealer Dick Hannah Honda’s success with the company’s SEO and Online Reputation Management solutions.
“We are proud to present this award to eXtéresAUTO which has achieved a standard of excellence that is clearly resonating with dealers,” said DrivingSales CEO and Founder Jared Hamilton. “This year’s award-winners have won recognition in one of the most challenging years on record for our industry. We salute them for their ongoing commitment to provide value to their dealer clients.”
The eXtéresAUTO SEO Difference: The company’s proprietary SEO technology works on an automated basis to constantly monitor complex algorithm changes at Google, Yahoo! and Bing, to ensure dealer clients’ websites ‘come up first’ - 24/7 – when potential customers are typing in over 1,200 relevant brand and local market search phrases.
And unlike any other dealer SEO vendor, eXtéresAUTO guarantees territory exclusivity: working with only one of each brand in any 10-city market, to assure clients dominate the search engines’ first pages. Dealerships using the company’s advanced SEO now achieve, on average, 83% first-page search engine placement rates - up from 14% before eXtéresAUTO. SEO is a critical component of the company’s comprehensive ‘Search Asset Management’ approach, which also integrates advanced Online Reputation Management, Piracy Solutions, Website Analytics – and more.
The DrivingSales award was not the only honor the company took home at the NADA Convention: eXtéresAUTO was also named one of the ‘Top Ten Companies to Watch in 2010’ by AutoSuccess magazine.
To access the complete DrivingSales Awards (i.e., how each vendor stacks up in terms of ‘star’ ratings and overall ‘dealer recommendation’ percentages, etc.), visit: www.drivingsales.com/innovation
To access dealer testimonials about eXtéresAUTO’s performance, visit: http://www.drivingsales.com/ratings/products/extres-exclusive-seo
About eXtéresAUTO: eXtéresAUTO is the leading ‘Search Asset Management’ provider for the automotive industry. Its proprietary SAM™ technology integrates advanced SEO, Online Reputation Management, Piracy Solutions, Website Analytics – and more. AutoSuccess named eXtéresAUTO one of the ‘Top Ten Companies to Watch in 2010,’ and the company’s SEO ranked #1 in dealer satisfaction in the 2009 DrivingSales Vendor Ratings Awards. Founded in 2006 by Richard Winch and Graham Winch, leaders in online marketing strategies and technologies, the company is headquartered in Riverside, CA.
About DrivingSales Vendor Ratings and Awards: DrivingSales Vendor Ratings are the industry’s first and only neutral, comprehensive vendor rating forum, featuring real-time peer reviews and honest competitor comparisons – searchable by category, company or rating – and are one of the most popular features of DrivingSales.com, which is the auto industry’s leading social media platform and largest online community. Vendor Ratings Awards are awarded to the vendors who receive the top rankings in their category. For the awards, dealers are asked to rate their vendors on a 1-5 star scale, including whether they would recommend the vendor product to colleagues, and why they would or would not recommend the product. All survey-takers are verified to ensure that they are actual dealership employees.