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SEO · GEO · LocalFRANCHISED DEALER GROUP

Seven local markets, one dealer group website, rebuilt for search

A family-owned, multi-franchise dealer group with dealerships across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Louisville. We ran its SEO and AI search program for nine months.

LOCAL MARKET PAGES BUILT
7Ohio and Kentucky markets, each with its own page
INDUSTRY
Franchised new and used car dealerships
VERTICAL
Dealer groups
SERVICES
SEO · GEO · Local · Content
TIMELINE
9-month program
Overview

The group sells new, used, certified, electric, and commercial vehicles under one website, but its pages were written for the group, not for the towns buyers search from. Over nine months we rewrote the site's core pages, built a page for each local market, and restructured the content so Google and AI assistants could answer buyers' questions with it.

7
local markets with their own page
40+
pages optimized
130+
title and meta rewrites implemented
900+
redirects audited
WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED

The results, in plain terms

Rewrote the local pages for Cincinnati, Mason, West Chester, and Fairfax, Ohio
Rewrote the local pages for Erlanger and Burlington, Kentucky, and for Louisville
Optimized 40+ pages: new, used, certified, EV, commercial, finance, trade-in, and service
Implemented 130+ title and meta description rewrites across the site
Mapped 70+ real buyer questions and answered them on the pages that sell
Audited 900+ redirects so old URLs pass their value to live pages
01 / THE STARTING POINT

A big group that searched like one store.

Buyers search for a dealership in their town: 'car dealership Mason Ohio' or 'Louisville auto dealerships'. The group had dealerships across seven markets, but its market pages were thin and generic, so those searches went to single-store competitors.

The core shopping pages had the same problem. Inventory, finance, and trade-in pages used generic titles and thin copy, and years of site changes had left hundreds of redirect chains behind.

7
markets with thin, generic pages
900+
redirects needing review
thin market pagesgeneric titlesredirect chains
02 / WHAT WE DID

What we did, month by month

Each month we delivered a set of page rewrites, metadata, and Q&A content. The group's team approved it and we tracked it to publishing.

A page for every marketEach market page is written for that market's searches, like 'car dealership Mason Ohio' or 'Louisville auto dealerships', so it can rank there instead of competing with the homepage.CincinnatiNorthern KentuckyLouisville
Shopping pages that answer questionsRewrote pages like 'new cars under $30K', 'cheap used cars', 'low monthly payment', and 'certified inventory' around how buyers search.
Built for AI answersConversational FAQ pages, Q&A blocks, and plain-English explainers, such as how trade-in value works, so AI assistants can quote the group.
Technical cleanupA full redirect audit, metadata across the site, and fixes for orphan pages and broken links.

The work, month by month

The same plan, laid out on the calendar it actually ran on.

1MONTHS 1-2

Core pages

Homepage, used inventory, finance, trade-in, and service pages, the Louisville page, and the first FAQ content.

2MONTHS 3-6

Inventory and markets

Mason, price-band pages, new, EV, and commercial inventory, auto loans, and sell or trade.

3MONTHS 7-9

More markets and AI search

Cincinnati, Erlanger, Fairfax, and Burlington, certified and EV inventory, and Q&A structure across pages.

03 / WHAT CHANGED

What we delivered

A nine-month program across the group's whole website, delivered on a monthly schedule and approved by the group's team.

7
local market pages
130+
titles and meta descriptions
70+
buyer questions answered
9 mo
of monthly deliverables
PAGES OPTIMIZED40+
7local markets with their own page
Cincinnati, OH
Mason, OH
West Chester, OH
Fairfax, OH
Erlanger, KY
Burlington, KY
Louisville, KY
900+redirects audited
04 / WHAT WE SHIPPED

Everything we shipped

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Seven local market pages across Ohio and Kentucky
Optimization of 40+ shopping, finance, and service pages
130+ title and meta description rewrites
Conversational FAQ pages and Q&A blocks on key pages
Definitions and explainers for common buyer questions
Redirect audit of 900+ URLs
Reddit engagement on car-buying threads
AI prompt tracking for the group's markets
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