Your buyers are asking AI. Your dealership isn't answering.

AI answer engines are rewriting how people find dealers. VulcanAX makes your group visible where buyers are looking now.

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Most dealer SEO is still selling last year's playbook. VulcanAX builds for where search is going.
You pay for the work your website actually gets, not for managers jumping from account to account.
The Showroom Is Moving

The search layer your platform vendor doesn't touch.

Buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews before they ever reach your site. The engines build answers from structured data, reviews, and content authority, and most automotive SEO retainers still optimize the ten blue links those buyers skip.

VulcanAX is an automotive SEO agency built for that shift. It works on top of the platform you already run, and specializes in multi-rooftop groups where the stores are competing with each other unnoticed.

Why the showroom is moving →
0%
Cox Automotive, Jan 2026
of new-car buyers used AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Overviews) while researching their purchase. Car Buyer Journey Study, 2,300 buyers.
0%
Moz, 2026
of Google AI Mode citations don't appear in the organic top 10. The answer happens upstream. 40,000 queries.

What VulcanAX does

01

AI Search Visibility

Getting your group cited in AI answers (the industry calls it AEO/GEO): ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and every surface displacing Google's first page for vehicle shoppers.
See how AI search visibility works →
02

Content Strategy

Stop your own pages from competing for the same buyers: cannibalization analysis, consolidation roadmaps, and inventory-aware content.
See the content strategy →
03

Technical SEO

Schema deployment, crawl architecture, Core Web Vitals, platform migrations. The foundation everything else sits on.
See the technical work →
04

Competitive Analysis

Market-level intelligence on where your competitors rank, what they publish, and where the gaps are in your local market (your DMA).
See competitive analysis →

How it works

From audit to compounding results in four phases.
01

Technical audit

Full-scope crawl, Google Search Console (GSC) analysis, schema review, AI visibility baseline. You see every finding before strategy starts.
Inside the audit →
02

Strategy build

Prioritized plan based on severity, commercial impact, and what your competitors are actually doing.
How the strategy gets built →
03

Execution

Content production, technical fixes, schema deployment, and AI-search optimization. Same operator, strategy and execution.
How execution works →
04

Compounding

Monthly GSC reviews, quarterly business reviews, continuous AI visibility monitoring. Every month builds on the last.
Why it compounds →

How VulcanAX compares

Every rate is published, so the table can end in a number instead of a sales call.
CapabilityPlatform SEOTemplated tierBoutique agenciesPremium, multi-layerVulcanAXFrom $1,165 / rooftop / mo
AI-search visibilityNot includedEmerging add-onCore focus
Cannibalization analysis across rooftopsNot includedVaries by shopIncluded
Schema depthTemplate defaultsVaries by shopCustom, validated
Who does the workSupport queue, distributedAccount manager + teamOne operator
Turnaround / ability to pivotFixed cycleAccount manager approvalOn a dime
Works on top of existing platformPlatform is the productYesYes
Strategy + execution from one personNoNoYes
Pricing published without a callNoNoYes
Contract lengthAnnual, typical6–12 months, typicalMonth-to-month
One client per marketNoRarelyAbsolute

$1,165 per rooftop per month at Core, falling to $792 for groups of 15 or more. Month-to-month, no annual contract. See all three tiers and the volume bands →

See the full comparison →

What you get

Every engagement produces documents you keep and act on.

Technical audit with severity scoring

Full crawl analysis, schema validation, Core Web Vitals, and AI visibility baseline. Every finding scored by severity and commercial impact.

Content cannibalization map

Page-by-page inventory of keyword overlap, self-competition, and consolidation opportunities across your entire domain.

6 to 20 content actions per month

New pages, optimizations, and consolidations, allocated each month from your GSC data, not a preset calendar. The number tracks your tier and what the market demands.

AI visibility monitoring

Continuous tracking of how your dealership appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other AI surfaces.
Case studies will appear here as client results mature. VulcanAX doesn't publish projections.
See the deliverables →

Working notes

What VulcanAX is seeing across dealer-group engagements: what changed, what got fixed, and what it means.
All notes →
AI Search

Automotive search engine optimization, rebuilt for the way buyers actually search

Automotive search engine optimization built for AI answer engines, not last year's ten blue links. How dealer groups get found where buyers actually search.

Jul 17, 202611 min read
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AI Search

AI SEO for car dealerships: getting cited when buyers ask the engine

AI SEO for car dealerships means getting cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, where vehicle buyers now get their answers.

Jul 17, 20268 min read
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Comparisons

How to evaluate an automotive SEO agency for your dealer group

A vendor-neutral way to evaluate an automotive SEO and AI-visibility partner in 2026: the three models on the market, what each is built for, and the questions that separate them.

Jun 17, 202611 min read
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One conversation with the person who does the work.

Send a domain and a rooftop count. You get back a real read on your technical surface, a tier, and a number, usually within one business day. No SDR, no discovery call to earn a price.

  • From $1,165 per rooftop / mo
  • Month-to-month, no contract
  • One client per market
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