(FRANKFORT, Ill.) – September 29, 2009 – Dealer HD has integrated the Twitter interface into the RIMS Admin with the 1.12 update.  Tweeting via RIMS gives users a centralized location for Social Media management in a workspace they’re already familiar with.

Updates to Twitter can be made in just two clicks.  The goal of integration was to keep everything Dealers need in one convenient location – the RIMS Admin.

“Our dealers have really taken root to social media.  Whether they are doing it on their own or using our Social Media Coaching product, we’ve made it even easier to update their Twitter status.  Now all Dealer HD clients can send tweets directly from our RIMS admin.  It’s definitely a cool feature, but mostly a time saver for social media managers,” said Justin Duff, Dealer HD’s National Sales Director.

The growing popularity of Social Media has given Dealer HD cause to make strides towards integrating every aspect into its product offerings.  For more information on Dealer HD’s Social Media Management program or other features included in the 1.12 update please visit dealerhd.com

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Dealer HD is an Automotive Web Solution serving clients Nationwide. Located in the southern suburbs of Chicago, the Dealer HD team has over 100 years of combined automotive experience.  Dealer HD provides customizable dealer web solutions with a comprehensive Admin tool that collects dealer leads, allows the quick and easy editing of website content, inventory modification and more.

(FRANKFORT, Ill.) – September 29, 2009 – Dealer HD announced the vehicle history feature with the latest 1.12 update.  The Vehicle history feature tracks vehicles customers view while shopping making them available for quick reference while surfing.

Dealer HD’s Director of Product Development, Bruce Etzcorn, shared his excitement about the vehicle history feature, “This has quickly become one of my favorite features of the update. When you see this in one of the Dealer HD websites you think to yourself, Whoa, this makes a lot of sense.”

The vehicle history feature is available on each page of Dealer HD’s websites as a slide out tab that lets shoppers quickly revisit the vehicles they’ve viewed while on the site without getting in their way.  The feature is cookie based, enabling shoppers to extend their vehicle history over several sessions without losing searches.

“Everyone loves shopping online because it’s easy and incredibly convenient.  We’ve given customers a cool virtual shopping cart so they can track back through all the vehicles they looked at.  It’s just one more way Dealer HD is revolutionizing car buying,” said Justin Duff, Dealer HD’s National Sales Director.

Vehicle History is a great addition to Dealer HD’s standard features, giving Dealers even more tools to help customers with their online shopping experience.  Other great features were made available in the 1.12 update, for more information on the latest additions or a demo of Dealer HD’s Automotive Web Services visit dealerhd.com

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Dealer HD is an Automotive Web Solution serving clients Nationwide. Located in the southern suburbs of Chicago, the Dealer HD team has over 100 years of combined automotive experience.  Dealer HD provides customizable dealer web solutions with a comprehensive Admin tool that collects dealer leads, allows the quick and easy editing of website content, inventory modification and more.

(FRANKFORT, Ill.) – September 29, 2009 – Dealer HD is now using the Canonical URL tag on all websites to funnel traffic exactly where you want it.  The Canonical URL tag is said by many to be the best addition to SEO practices since the site map.

A Canonical URL tag tells search engines what to do with duplicate content and allows them to direct indexed pages to the correct location.  Duplicate content crops up based on different ways of entering a web address. (Typing www.dealerhd.com pulls duplicate content of accessing a site by simply typing dealerhd.com).

Director of Product Development, Bruce Etzcorn explains that, “While Duplicate content sounds like a good thing to have on a Search Engine, it could effect what is and isn’t listed on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). Among other things, this will also serve as a funnel of sorts and direct all links to the correct address we are tracking in Google Analytics.”

Keeping up with SEO practices is not just a goal at Dealer HD it is a business strategy. “SEO is changing every day.  Our Search Engine Optimization team is continually working to evolve and update our practices and processes so that our dealer websites have the very best SEO.  You can’t lag behind on SEO and be a success in today’s online automotive marketing arena,” said Justin Duff, National Sales Director.

If you’re interested in learning more about Dealer HD’s SEO strategies or Hyper SEO program, please visit dealerhd.com

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Dealer HD is an Automotive Web Solution serving clients Nationwide. Located in the southern suburbs of Chicago, the Dealer HD team has over 100 years of combined automotive experience.  Dealer HD provides customizable dealer web solutions with a comprehensive Admin tool that collects dealer leads, allows the quick and easy editing of website content, inventory modification and more.