What we delivered, and why it keeps paying off.
Quality matters more than volume here. Every placement sits on a high-authority site, inside an article relevant to your space, the kind of mention that's hard to earn in the car category. Their value compounds in the months after they land, so the earliest placements are already pulling the most weight. With 30 more sourced or planned, the link total keeps climbing.
A sample of the live placements. Full list of 27 in the tracker.
Every page that ranks is an acquisition channel you already paid to build. Deleting the wrong ones writes that off for good. We reviewed all 726 pages flagged for removal against 16 months of the site's own Search Console history and the backlinks, before anything shipped.
| Page | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| /how-it-works | Keep | Steady ranked traffic; core entry page. |
| /cash-for-junk-cars | Keep | Earns clicks on a high-intent term. |
| /sell-damaged-car | Keep | Backlinks point here; equity to protect. |
| /sell-non-running-car | Redirect | Overlaps a stronger page; fold the value in. |
| /sell-my-car/audi/a8 | Redirect | Thin model page; send to the model hub. |
| /blog/selling-basics/title | Remove | No traffic, no links, no recovery path. |
Per-URL verdicts, with the reasoning shown for each.
More search now happens inside AI answers. We rewrote four of your priority pages so AI answers can pull from them directly. That means answer-first structure, with the specific facts and entities the models look for, written deep enough to earn a citation.
| Article | Target page | Anchor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| What Is My Car Worth | peddle.com/how-it-works | "vehicle pickup and required paperwork" | Internal Supporting |
| What Is My Car Worth | peddle.com/cash-for-junk-cars | "junk cars for cash" | Internal Approved |
| What Is My Car Worth | peddle.com/sell-my-car | "sell your car online" | Internal Approved |
| What Is My Car Worth | nhtsa.gov/odometer-fraud | "odometer fraud protections" | External Authority |
| Sell My Car Fast | peddle.com/car-value | "car value estimate" | Internal Approved |
| Get Cash For Your Junk Car | ftc.gov/clear-personal-data | "clear personal data" | External Authority |
Every placement logged: article, target page, anchor, and a campaign-anchor check.
We won't claim all of that. Your team's own page work earns most of it. The 27 links, the decommission review, and the rebuilt content sit underneath as the authority layer, and the pages we backed are the ones already moving most.
All figures from first-party Google Search Console: total US organic clicks, the partnership's first 90 days versus the most recent.
We backed four of your pages with high-authority links, and every one now pulls more Google clicks than when the work started. The page we backed most heavily (/sell-non-running-car, 12 links) is up 302%. Every number here comes straight from Google Search Console, Peddle's own data.
| Page | Links | Google clicks / mo | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| /sell-non-running-car | 12 | 188 → 756 | +302% |
| /sell-damaged-car | 8 | 1 → 89 | +88 |
| /car-value | 3 | 248 → 425 | +71% |
| /cash-for-junk-cars | 1 | 1,212 → 2,045 | +69% |
Monthly Google clicks, Sept 2025 vs the latest 30 days. First-party Search Console. These four pages carry the links that have had the most time to mature.
The first stretch pays for the foundation. The returns build over the months that follow, as the links and pages already in place keep maturing.