
Everything You Need to Know About Vehicles in Operation (VIO)
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market ResearchWe get a lot of questions on US vehicle registration data and the vehicle registration database, like "how many cars are in the U.S.?" Here are some important things you need to know about buying and using automotive registration data. What…

How Online Auto Parts Buyers Shop for Parts & Accessories
Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingIf you sell auto parts online, then your website needs to make a great first impression because auto parts buyers are fleeting. This is good information to keep in mind if you're marketing your online parts store with an automotive paid search…

Automotive Industry Trends: Auto Parts & Tire Stores Start 2014 With 3.1% Sales Increase
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market ResearchAutomotive parts and tire stores are showing a sales increase over last year, in one of the important automotive industry trends for 2014.Brick and mortar auto parts, auto accessory and tire stores showed a 3.7% sales increase in April…

Auto Parts Sales: Is Google Forecasting a Good 2nd Quarter?
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingA promising second quarter of 2014 for auto parts and tire sales may be on the way, based off data from Google Trends.The ability to use Google Trends to forecast certain things such as flu outbreaks is well documented. We used data…

Auto Parts Marketing: Online Sales of Parts & Accessories to Hit $5 Billion in 2014
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingNote: this article was originally published in April 2014, for an updated forecast, click here for a more current article.If you're marketing automotive parts online, parts and accessories once again showed a significant sales increase…

Top Automobile Industry Trends for 2014
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market ResearchNew vehicle registrations grew 7.2% in 2013 and here are some of the important automotive industry trends that "drove" growth, which makes them important trends for 2014. Over 15.2 million vehicles were registered in 2013 so let's jump into…

Automotive SEO Ranking Factors and Correlations Study
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingIf you sell automotive parts or services online then you need to know what we discovered in our automotive SEO ranking factors and correlations study. This study evaluated factors that may contribute to a high SEO ranking in Google. This market…

Why Long Tail Search Changed Automotive SEO and Paid Search Forever
Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingLong tail keywords are the key to gaining more traffic and more sales. They became even more important with Google’s Hummingbird algorithm update, which signaled a huge new opportunity in search engine optimization. This is an important automotive…

Cyber Monday Marketing, Black Friday Marketing for Auto Parts
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive Marketing New ideas for Cyber Monday auto parts deals A few years back we participated in a free webinar on online holiday shopping with Web Shop Manager. It made sense to update this with Cyber Monday marketing ideas for 2020. As the holiday selling…

Auto Parts Customer Behavior in Google Analytics (or, Where the Heck Do My Customers Come From??)
Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingYou can improve automotive SEO and Google AdWords paid search results by understanding how automotive parts and accessory customers originally find your website, and how they return to make a purchase. You can discover a lot of information…

Why New Car Auto Sales Are Rising
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingWith monthly auto sales rising here are reasons for the continuing increase in automobile and light truck sales in the face of a weak economy.The auto industry tracks monthly unit sales as a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) figure,…

Purchase Frequency by Vehicle Owned
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market ResearchHave you ever wondered how often enthusiasts tend to buy auto parts and accessories? We surveyed more than 2,500 enthusiasts to find out how often they purchase auto parts or accessories and arranged the information by what type of vehicle they…