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Auto Dealer Traffic Partners with CarTHINK

Auto Dealer Traffic, Inc., a leading automotive Search Engine Marketing (SEM) company, announced a partnership with CarTHINK, a cutting edge Web site provider for auto dealers.

by Staff
May 6, 2008
3 min to read


COLUMBUS, OH  — Auto Dealer Traffic, Inc., a leading automotive Search Engine Marketing (SEM) company, announced a partnership with CarTHINK, a cutting edge Web site provider for auto dealers.  Under the terms of the agreement, Auto Dealer Traffic will provide Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services to CarTHINK dealer clients to help increase their Internet visibility and Web site traffic.

“We’re very excited about our strategic partnership with CarTHINK because it combines the knowledge of two highly experienced industry experts committed to providing dealers with a total online inventory management and marketing solution,” said Todd Swickard, president of Auto Dealer Traffic. 

CarTHINK, LLC is a privately held company that offers full-service Internet marketing services and software to franchise and independent dealers nationwide.  The company’s Web site solutions include tools to help dealers more effectively manage and market their online inventory. CarTHINK is a data partner with Reynolds & Reynolds, ADP, and an eBay Motors/eBay Local Certified Solution Provider.  The company has vehicle inventory distribution agreements with hundreds of online classified destinations such as Autotrader.com and Cars.com.

“Auto Dealer Traffic’s advanced, high quality SEM and SEO technology will give our clients a critical advantage in today’s online vehicle sales market,” said Scott Riegle, Director of Business Development for CarTHINK.   “They’ll be able to work directly with our dealers, easily integrate their SEO/SEM initiatives in our website technology, driving measurable results and increasing traffic to their inventory. This is an important part of a dealers online marketing campaign, it is not about just having a pretty website, its about more Internet leads and sales with increased online visibility.”

Auto Dealer Traffic is a premier provider of comprehensive, technologically advanced and highly effective search engine marketing programs to help drive new and used car sales. The company’s proprietary software can be implemented at any size dealership and on any existing Web site platform to significantly increase qualified buyer traffic to a dealer’s site.  ADT’s dealer customers are consistently top-ranked on the leading search engine sites, including Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

About Auto Dealer Traffic Inc
Auto Dealer Traffic, Inc. is an Internet and search engine marketing company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.  Auto Dealer Traffic specializes in routing automotive consumer traffic to web sites and has been an industry leader since 2001. It is a Google certified company, a Google Ad Words reseller company, as well as being certified partners of Yahoo! and MSN. Auto Dealer Traffic’s proprietary software and SEM strategies are the most effective methods available for increasing traffic to web sites and generating more leads.

About CarThink
CarTHINK is a Florida based software company that develops and markets proprietary software exclusively to the retail automotive industry. CarTHINK's software is currently in use at several hundred franchise and independent dealerships across the country, including stores owned by major U.S. dealership chains. The unique software enables dealerships to effectively and efficiently manage their entire online marketing campaigns, including eBay auctions, hundreds  of online classifieds (such as AutoTrader.com and Cars.com), the dealers' corporate websites, email customer relationship management, print window stickers/buyers guides, and more. All CarTHINK software modules are fully integrated with the major DMS systems such as Reynolds & Reynolds and ADP.

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