What Determines a Dealership's Ranking on a Directory Page?
A: A dealership's ranking on a DealerRater directory is determined by the following factors:
- Number of reviews received over the past two years (factored into the weighted rating.)
- Average score of all reviews received in the past two years (factored into the weighted rating.)
- Whether any dealership in the directory has won a Dealer of the Year award for the current calendar year.
While weighted rating is the default display order, dealerships can also be sorted by either the number of reviews received, alphabetically by name, or, if the directory is displayed based on a a zip-code search, by distance from the target zip code.
Dealer of the Year: One other factor that can change the order of dealerships listed in a directory is the Dealer of the Year award: any dealership which has received a Dealer of the Year award for the current calendar year is automatically placed at the top of any directory they are displayed in.
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