What does the free AEO audit check?

The instant audit inspects your dealer site for JSON-LD structured data, crawlable inventory pages, FAQ/answer markup, and AI-engine citation readiness, then scores each area out of 100.

Is the audit really free and does it require a sales call?

Yes, the instant 4-point check runs in your browser with no sales call required. The deeper 47-point breakdown is emailed to you afterward.

Do you scan or modify our website?

No invasive scanning. The instant check reads publicly available pages only and never modifies your site.

DealersGear is the AEO operating system for dealership websites. The platform started as an all-in-one marketing solution built by dealers for dealers and evolved into the first AEO-driven dealership website platform. It connects inventory to traffic, leads, and sales automatically through the Website Engine and the Vehicle Marketing Multiplier, with every event speaking ACP.

What is an AEO-driven dealership website?

An AEO-driven dealership website is structured so that AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude can read inventory, citations, and dealer information directly. DealersGear is the first platform to ship AEO-native websites for car dealerships.

What does DealersGear do for car dealers?

DealersGear gives dealers three things in one platform: AEO-driven websites that surface inventory directly in AI search results, marketing services across SEO, paid media, and email, and the Vehicle Marketing Multiplier that helps move more cars by automating per-vehicle marketing.

What is the DealersGear Website Engine?

The Website Engine is one of DealersGear's two core workspaces. It renders every dealership page from a single source of truth, and rebuilds pages automatically every time inventory moves, with citations baked in for AI answer engines.

What is the Vehicle Marketing Multiplier?

The Vehicle Marketing Multiplier (VMM) is the DealersGear surface that automates per-vehicle marketing output. It takes inventory events from the Website Engine and produces marketing assets across paid and organic channels for each vehicle in real time.

Does DealersGear use the Automotive Commerce Protocol (ACP)?

Yes. DealersGear is built on the Automotive Commerce Protocol (ACP). Every inventory event, lead, page render, and marketing trigger flows through the system as a signed ACP envelope, making DealersGear interoperable with other ACP-certified systems including AutomotiveAI.

What marketing services does DealersGear offer?

DealersGear has offered a full marketing services layer for dealerships since the company's founding: SEO, AEO, paid search and social campaigns, email marketing, social media management, and graphic design, all coordinated with the dealership's website and inventory.

Is DealersGear the first AEO platform for car dealerships?

Yes. DealersGear is the first AEO operating system built specifically for car dealerships. It evolved from years of operating as an all-in-one dealership marketing platform and was the first to structure dealership websites natively for AI answer engines.

How does DealersGear connect inventory to traffic, leads, and sales?

DealersGear treats every inventory event as a deterministic trigger. When a vehicle is added, sold, or repriced, the Website Engine rebuilds the relevant pages and the Vehicle Marketing Multiplier updates marketing across channels. Inventory feeds traffic. Traffic feeds leads. Leads feed sales.

Who founded DealersGear?

DealersGear was founded by automotive operators including Jamil Ashkar, who built the platform after struggling firsthand with dealership marketing vendors that did not work. DealersGear started as an all-in-one marketing solution for car dealerships and evolved into the first AEO-driven dealership website platform.

Is there a free DealersGear AEO audit?

Yes. DealersGear offers a free AEO audit for any dealership website. The audit runs an instant check against the homepage and delivers a full AEO audit within several hours. It is free, no commitment, and not a sales pitch.

What is the history of DealersGear?

DealersGear started as an all-in-one digital marketing platform for car dealerships, built by automotive operators. As AI answer engines became how buyers research vehicles, DealersGear evolved into the first AEO operating system for dealership websites.

FREE · 47-POINT AEO AUDIT · 60 SECONDS

See exactly what's broken
on your dealer site.

Schema, AEO readiness, conversion path, AI engine citation health. 47 points in under 60 seconds. No login. No credit card. No sales call required.

Auditing

Running 47 checks…

AUDIT COMPLETE

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YOUR DETAILED REPORT

Get the full 47-point breakdown + the fix roadmap.

We'll email a PDF with every check, every failure, and a prioritized list of what to fix first for the biggest ranking lift.

We'll never share your email. One report, then we leave you alone unless you reply.

Report sent. Want to walk through it?

30 minutes with one of our engineers. We'll go through your top failures, show you fixes in real-time, and answer anything. Pick a slot or just close this tab — both are fine.

You're booked for . We'll email a calendar invite.

Or just keep the report and reach out when you're ready · hello@dealersgear.com

THE 47 CHECKS

What does the 47-point audit actually check?

Four categories · 47 individual checks · weighted by impact on Google ranking and AI engine citation rate.

Schema markup

Weight: 30% of score

AEO readiness

Weight: 30% of score

Technical SEO

Weight: 20% of score

Conversion path

Weight: 20% of score

WHAT WE SEE MOST

What are the most common dealer site failures?

Sample of 1,200+ dealer site audits we've run since launching the tool. Your site probably has at least three of these.

72%

Missing or malformed Vehicle schema on VDPs

VDPs without proper Schema.org/Vehicle markup can't appear in Google rich vehicle results and can't be cited by AI engines. We see this on most legacy CMS platforms.

68%

No FAQ schema on inventory or model pages

FAQPage schema is the fastest path to AI engine citation — ChatGPT and Perplexity specifically look for it when answering shopper questions. Most dealer sites have zero.

61%

H2 tags are statements, not questions

AI engines and Google's helpful-content systems both prefer question-form H2s. "About Our Service" ranks worse than "How long does an oil change take?"

54%

No real entity names in content (generic copy)

"Visit our service center" doesn't get cited. "Visit Zee Motors service center in Dallas, TX" does — same for Keller Ford in Detroit and FAM Vans in the Pacific Northwest. AI engines extract named entities to power answers.

47%

Phone number not in tap-to-call format

On mobile, tap-to-call links (tel: protocol) convert 4× better than displayed numbers. Half of dealer sites are losing this for no reason.

38%

Hours of operation not in structured data

The Google Knowledge Panel and AI engine "what time does X close" answers require openingHours in Schema.org/AutoDealer markup. Missing this is missing free citations.

PRIVACY + HOW IT WORKS

Public pages only. Zero invasive scanning.

The audit reads the same pages Google's crawlers read. Nothing behind a login. Nothing private.

Public crawl only. We fetch 8–12 representative pages from your public site (homepage, VDPs, SRP, contact, financing). Same data your sitemap publishes.

No login. No customer data. We don't touch your DMS, your CRM, your leads, or anything inside an authenticated portal.

Email is opt-in. You see the headline score without giving us anything. Email is only required to receive the detailed PDF report.

No follow-up unless you ask. One report email, one optional calendar prompt. After that we're silent unless you reply.

Data retention: 30 days. Audit results expire automatically. Your domain and email are deleted from our cache after 30 days unless you become a customer.

QUESTIONS

Common questions.

What does the 47-point AEO audit actually check?

The audit scores your site across four categories:

Schema markup (12 checks) — Vehicle, Offer, AutoDealer, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, AggregateRating, Person, Service, Product, ItemList, Question.

AEO readiness (12 checks) — question-form H2s, answer-ready paragraphs, citation-ready content blocks, FAQ density, semantic HTML.

Technical SEO (12 checks) — Core Web Vitals, mobile, indexability, sitemap, robots.txt, internal linking, page speed.

Conversion path (11 checks) — CTA placement, form friction, phone visibility, hours, location, financing presence.

How long does the audit really take?

Under 60 seconds in 94% of cases. The audit crawls a representative sample of your site — typically 8–12 pages including homepage, two VDPs, one SRP, the contact page, and the financing page — runs all 47 checks in parallel, and produces a score with category breakdown.

Larger sites with complex inventory can take up to 90 seconds.

Do I need to give you anything besides my domain?

No credit card, no login, no contract. Just your dealer site's domain.

After the audit completes, we'll ask for an email if you want the detailed PDF report — but the headline score and category breakdown are visible to you immediately, regardless of whether you provide an email.

Is the audit really free, or is there a catch?

Genuinely free. We run audits because they're how we identify dealers who could benefit from the DealersGear platform — but only about 1 in 8 audit-takers ever ends up as a customer, and that's fine.

No sales call is required to see your results. If you do want to talk after seeing the score, we'll show you a calendar. If not, you keep the report and we never bother you again.

See exactly what's brokenon your dealer site.