Used car dealers · Pay per click advertising
Pay for the buyer searching for a car you hold, not for the words used cars.
Pay per click advertising for a used car dealer puts a paid result in front of a buyer searching for a particular car or budget in your city and sends him to that car's page. It works because the stock is real and the buyer is comparing now. GullySales builds campaigns around the cars on your lot and traces each click to a visit and a sale.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What pay per click advertising means
Pay per click advertising (PPC) is paying a fee each time someone clicks your advert on Google or another platform. It puts you at the top of a search page immediately, instead of waiting for ranking to build. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad text and checks spend against enquiries received.
Last updated 6 Oct 2026.
For used car dealers
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The ad promises a car that has sold”
An ad for one model keeps running after the car goes. The buyer clicks, finds it sold and trusts nothing else on the page. The campaign has to follow the lot, not the other way round.
“The cheap click is a student or a broker”
Searches such as used car price list or loan calculator, and the brokers looking for stock, bring people who will never visit. They have to be blocked by name, and the list grows as real search terms arrive.
“A call that nobody answers wastes the click”
A buyer who rings from an ad and hears it ring out rings the next dealer on the results page. The ad should run in the hours the phone is attended.
What we do
What we deliver for used car dealers.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Campaigns built around the cars on your lot
Separate campaigns for the models you hold, for budget and body-type searches and for your own dealership name, tied to the stock list.
Result: Money goes behind cars that exist today.
A negative list written for this trade
Searches for price lists, loan calculators, scrap, RC status, challans, brokers and jobs blocked, and extended as real search terms come in.
Result: You stop paying for clicks from people who want information, not a car.
A page for each advertised car or group
Each ad leads to the car's own page, or to a group page for the model, with the price, photographs and a button to call or book a visit.
Result: The click lands on the car the buyer searched for.
Ads that stop when the car is sold
A routine that links the ads to the stock list, so a sold car's ad is paused and a new arrival's ad is started.
Result: No buyer clicks through to a car that has gone.
A tracking number and an enquiry register
A phone number for the ads and a column in the register for how each caller found you, so a call can be traced to a visit.
Result: You can see which campaign brought a buyer to the lot.
A report from click to sale
Spend, enquiries, test drives and sales for each campaign, set against the baseline and against the portals' enquiries.
Result: You know what the advertising added to what the portals already brought.
How the result is measured
- Cost per click
- Cost per enquiry
- Enquiries from paid search
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Searches to bid on and block
The searches worth paying for at a used car dealer, and the ones to keep out.
- A model plus the city, such as second hand Creta in Mysuru
- Bid. The buyer is ready to visit. Send him to the page for that car if you hold it, or to the model's group page if you hold several, with price, photographs and a call button.
- Budget and body-type searches, such as used automatic hatchback
- Bid in separate campaigns by budget and body type. These buyers are open on the model, so send them to a page showing the cars in stock that fit, each with kilometres and owner number.
- Your own dealership name and its spellings
- Bid in a small campaign. A buyer who heard of you from a friend searches your name, and a portal or a rival can appear above you. Include the common misspellings.
- Sell my car, exchange and valuation searches
- Bid in a separate campaign, since the seller is a different person who needs a different page. Offer a valuation by visit or by photographs, and say the offer is confirmed after inspection.
- Block: price list, loan calculator, scrap, RC status and challan
- Add these as negatives, with broker, job, driver, rental and spare parts. They bring people who want information or a part, not a car from your lot.
- Counting a real enquiry
- Count a call about a named car that somebody answered, or a WhatsApp from the ad. Then count the visit and the test drive. Keep portal enquiries in a separate column to see what the ads added.
Who it is for
This is written for these used car dealers.
- Independent used car dealers
- Multi-brand pre-owned showrooms
- Dealers specialising in one segment
- Franchise pre-owned outlets
- Online-first used car sellers
- Dealers who also broker and consign
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the pay per click advertising work runs
- 1
Understand the total budget
We agree the full paid advertising budget available across all platforms, rather than planning each one separately.
- 2
Audit current platform performance
We compare existing campaigns on a shared basis to see where the budget currently performs best and worst.
- 3
Build the cross-platform plan
Campaigns are structured across platforms with a shared measurement standard from the outset.
- 4
Implement and monitor
Campaigns run with budget allocated dynamically based on real-time performance.
- 5
Measure and reallocate
We report performance and shift budget toward what is working, within agreed limits.
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Should we bid on a portal's name or a rival dealer's name?
Call-only ads or a form?
Which cars should we advertise first?
How do we tell which calls came from the ad?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
From the blog
Further reading for used car dealers.
5 min read · 6 Oct 2026How used car dealers move ageing stockA used car that has sat for two months is costing you every day. Find out why it is not selling, fix that cause before you cut the price, and put it in front of buyers who already asked.
6 min read · 6 Oct 2026How buyers choose a showroom, workshop or parts counterCar, bike, repair and parts buyers send one enquiry to several sellers and pick the first clear answer. This post lists what each buyer checks, and where a dealer or workshop quietly loses them.
7 min read · 19 Feb 2026How used car dealers should answer portal enquiriesThe same portal enquiry went to three dealers. The one who replies first with photographs of the flaws, the ownership details and an EMI figure gets the test drive.
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Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
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