Case Study: D&P Performance

Your DealerSpike site looks like every other dealer's site.
That's the problem.

D&P Performance was stuck on DealerSpike — same template, same limitations, same invisible SEO ceiling as a thousand other dealers. We migrated them to a custom-built platform and gave them something DealerSpike can't: control.

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The DealerSpike Problem

Every one of these was costing D&P Performance leads, rankings, and money.

Your URLs are a mess

DealerSpike generates URLs like /about-us-atvs-utvs-snowmobiles-dealership--info. Google reads that as noise. Clean URLs rank better.

Your site is slow

Template bloat means slow load times. Google penalizes slow sites. Your competitors with faster sites get shown first.

You look like everyone else

Your site uses the same template as hundreds of other DealerSpike dealers. Your customers can't tell you apart from the guy three towns over.

You don't own your SEO

No access to robots.txt, limited schema, no custom landing pages. You're paying for a platform that actively prevents you from ranking.

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DealerSpike SEO limitations identified
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Dealers sharing the same template
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SEO control after migration
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From kickoff to launch

DealerSpike vs. Custom-Built

A side-by-side comparison of what D&P had vs. what they have now.

FeatureDealerSpikeCustom-Built
URL Structure/about-us-atvs-utvs-snowmobiles-dealership--info/about
Page Speed (Mobile)35-5090+
Custom Landing PagesNot availableUnlimited
Schema MarkupLimited / noneFull LocalBusiness, Product, Service
Blog / Content CMSBasic, template-lockedFull CMS, any layout
The D&P Performance Story

From template to takeover

D&P Performance is a long-established powersports dealership in Cedar City, Utah — the kind of shop serious riders trust. But their online presence didn't reflect that. It looked like every other DealerSpike site on the internet.

The old site couldn't rank for service keywords because DealerSpike wouldn't let them create custom service pages. They couldn't target “UTV repair Cedar City” or “Can-Am service Southern Utah” because the template didn't support those pages. Their competitors on DX1 had the same problem — but they didn't know it was a problem.

We migrated D&P to a fully custom platform. Clean URLs. Full schema markup. Custom service pages for every keyword they want to rank for. A blog that actually works. Page speeds that don't embarrass them on mobile.

The result: D&P now owns their SEO. They can create any page, target any keyword, and outrank competitors who are still locked inside the same template.

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What the migration looks like

Eight weeks from kickoff to launch. No downtime. No lost rankings.

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Week 1-2

Discovery & Strategy

SEO audit of your current DealerSpike site. Competitive analysis. Keyword mapping. Content strategy.

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Week 3-5

Design & Build

Custom design based on your brand. Built from scratch on a modern platform. Every page optimized.

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Week 6-7

Content & SEO

Service pages, brand pages, local landing pages. Schema markup. Internal linking architecture. Blog setup.

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Week 8

Launch & Handoff

DNS migration. 301 redirects from old URLs. Google Search Console setup. Training on your new CMS.

20+ years of software development experience. Not templates. Not a marketing agency that outsources the work. I write the code myself, right here in Southern Utah.

David Sanders
Cedar City Web Design / Lighting Software Development LLC

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