{"id":12,"date":"2015-12-22T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:03:21","slug":"marketpunch-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/marketpunch-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"MarketPunch Moves to .Auto Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"s__center s__padding-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"\/assets\/img\/blog\/marketpunchauto.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Marketpunch.Auto homepage\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>MarketPunch was founded in 2013, by Jason Stum, as an online resource for anyone in the automotive industry who is responsible for the digital marketing efforts in their dealership or automotive group. The site &ndash; providing tips, tricks, &amp; how-tos for email marketing, social media, blogging, video production, graphic design, and data analysis &ndash; is now recognized as one of the leading podcasts and automotive marketing experts in the industry.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Initially established as MarketPunch.com, Jason Stum recently re-launched the site as MarketPunch.Auto \u2013 making the brand industry-relevant and instantly recognizable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"s__center s__padding-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"\/assets\/img\/blog\/carspodcast.jpg\" alt=\"Title card for Episode 17 of the MarketPunch Podcast on .Cars \/ .Car \/ .Auto: What Dealers Need to Know\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"heading__3 t__color-light-teal\">Hear It For Yourself<\/h3>\n<p>Jason, with 7 years of experience in the automotive retail industry, prides himself on thinking analytically \u2013 always trying to dig in and discover what really makes something work, what makes it successful (or not). So it\u2019s no surprise that when he invited our COO, Mike Ambrose, to be a guest on his podcast, that he wanted to dig in and address the questions that other automotive marketers or dealers may have about making the switch to the .Auto domain. One of those potential questions was in regards to availability of the new domains, and according to Jason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cYou\u2019re not gonna have the squatters who are scooping up the domains in bulk. Your chance of actually getting the domain that\u2019s going to work for you is better. And if you\u2019re interested in one of those geo-targeted domains, Detroit.Cars, whatever it is, the chances of you getting that are better&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He continued on to note that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cGoogle knows that these domains aren\u2019t cheap and that if someone has a .Auto, .Car, .Cars domain that it is a serious business behind it and if they follow best practices and if they have good content and a good user experience and everything else, I think that, ya know, that it\u2019s, that potentially Google can put some serious weight into that\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"heading__3 t__color-light-teal\">The Transition<\/h3>\n<p>Marketers can rest assured that SEO, page ranking, and emails will all be preserved \u2013 especially when taking advantage of our complimentary white-glove migration services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say it went off without a hitch. It started at night, by the morning it was done. And then as I Googled myself, within a day, Google had already processed all the new pages, everything was showing up MarketPunch.Auto, so there wasn\u2019t a lapse from the search engine side as it reinducts the new domain,\u201d reported Jason.<\/p>\n<p>MarketPunch.Auto currently ranks #1 on Google for \u2018Market Punch\u2019 and #4 for \u2018Jason Stum\u2019 (only below his own LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook profiles).<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s Jason\u2019s overall takeaway from this experience? \u201cThis is a pretty good investment in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To secure your .Cars \/ .Car \/ .Auto domains now, you can search for your company\u2019s name at the link below or <a href=\"\/contact\">contact&nbsp;us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"s__center s__padding-top s__margin-top\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/register\" class=\"button button__medium\">Register my domain now<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketPunch was founded in 2013, by Jason Stum, as an online resource for anyone in the automotive industry who is responsible for the digital marketing efforts in their dealership or automotive group. The site &ndash; providing tips, tricks, &amp; how-tos for email marketing, social media, blogging, video production, graphic design, and data analysis &ndash; is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"blog__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/marketpunch-auto\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go.cars\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}