Automotive Professional Blogs, Communities and Digital Dealer Magazine: Compete Site Traffic Reports for October 2009 Are In

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Comment by Ralph Paglia on November 30, 2009 at 8:53pm

Food for Thought, this is the most recent 30 day Google Analytics dashboard applied to their benchmarking application comparing ADM with other "Social Networks and Online Communities" of similar size... I would love to get some feedback from an interpretation and analysis perspective. It is a fairly large image file, so you can click on it to pop open a full sized view which makes reading the actual metrics a lot easier:

Comment by Ralph Paglia on November 30, 2009 at 7:25pm

@ Jeff - You are so right about the interesting data... Such as, did you notice the DealerRefresh.com was one of the top 3 sources of referral traffic for DrivingSales.com? And, did you notice that AutomotiveDigitalMarketing.com was one of the top 3 referring sources of traffic for DealerRefresh.com?

The Google Analytics also show several surprising relationships between several sites, but there is definitely a lot of traffic flowing between and back and forth around DealerRefresh, DrivingSales and the ADM Professional Community... Which I believe to be a positive commentary on the people working in this part of the auto industry.

I have invested a lot of time and energy in creating easy to follow links, put links in the main menu and created groups that syndicate other auto professional site content, along with multiple back-links to the other Automotive Professional targeted sites, it would be nice to see that type of professional courtesy returned in kind...

Comment by Jeff Kershner on November 30, 2009 at 5:55pm

Bravo Ralph. I always enjoy these posts. Is this something you will continue to do each month? Our dealer forums are very new but you might want to include the traffic from that site as well. I too love compete and when you really dive into these reports..there is some interesting stuff. As in DealerRefresh having a top search term of "brad pitt camero" :)