Rank for the car, the part number and the question.
Parts buyers search by vehicle ("Mk7 Fiesta ST coilovers"), by number ("1K0615301AA") and, increasingly, by asking an AI what fits. Automotive SEO means being the answer to all three.
Search demand is vehicle-shaped
Nobody searches "suspension". They search for suspension for their car. That means the pages that win are vehicle-and-system pages — "Fiesta ST Mk7 suspension", "Golf GTI Mk7 brakes", "Defender TD5 exhaust" — backed by product pages that make it unambiguous which vehicles each part fits. Most parts sites have neither: a flat category tree, product pages with fitment buried in a paragraph, and 20,000 URLs Google can't tell apart.
What we do
- Vehicle & brand landing pages — generated from your fitment data, not hand-written: every vehicle you sell for, by system, with real products, real stock and useful copy.
- Product & Vehicle structured data — Product, Offer, Brand, MPN, GTIN, and the vehicle compatibility markup that tells Google (and AI engines) exactly what fits what.
- Part-number visibility — OE numbers, cross-references and superseded numbers indexed and rankable, because a surprising amount of high-intent search is someone typing a number off the old part.
- Technical SEO for big catalogues — faceted navigation that doesn't spawn a million URLs, canonical rules, crawl budget, Core Web Vitals on image-heavy product pages, proper handling of out-of-stock and discontinued lines.
- Content that answers real questions — fitment guides, "which variant have I got" explainers, install notes. The stuff your phone gets asked, written once.
- AI search / AEO — structured, factual, unambiguous pages that AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity can cite with confidence. Being the source they quote beats being the tenth blue link.
- Local & brand — Google Business Profile for the counter trade, brand-name protection, reviews.
Signs you need this
- You rank for your brand name and almost nothing else
- Your eBay store outranks your own website for your own products
- Google Search Console shows thousands of "crawled — not indexed" pages
- Competitors with a worse range and worse prices are above you for vehicle searches
- You've never seen your site mentioned in an AI answer
How an engagement goes
- Audit & baseline. Technical crawl, fitment data review, keyword research by vehicle and system, competitor set, 90-day baseline.
- Foundations. Fix the technical blockers, structure the catalogue, add structured data.
- Build the pages. Vehicle and system landing pages from your data; content for the questions your customers actually ask.
- Compound. Monthly: new pages as the range grows, content, links from the scene, and a report you can read in five minutes.
See how this looks in practice: NS 4×4 — taking an Irish Toyota 4×4 parts specialist into the UK.
Questions
Automotive SEO FAQ
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What is AEO or AI search optimisation?
How long before we see results?
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Not sure where to start? Get a free fitment audit.
We'll check your site and eBay store for the fitment problems that cost parts sellers sales — and tell you exactly what to fix.