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Case Study

Sell My Car Pro

A new Perth car-buying brand entering one of the most competitive search categories in Western Australia. Built end to end across concept, brand, graphic design, logo, web design and custom web development, including a bespoke instant-valuation tool that powers the seller journey. SEO architecture, entity mapping, and a full content programme wired in from day one so the site could compete in market with the national platforms from launch.

320%
Increase in new users reaching the site
168
Keywords on page one in the first 90 days
60+
Keywords held on page one ongoing
285%
Increase in key events and valuation tool completions

About Sell My Car Pro

About Sell My Car Pro

A Licensed WA Motor Vehicle Dealer Built To Buy Cars Across Perth.

Sell My Car Pro is a Perth-based specialist car-buying service and Licensed WA Motor Vehicle Dealer, with Motor Trade Association membership and a clear remit to make selling a car simpler than the private-listing grind. The service buys used cars, financed cars, older and high-kilometre cars, damaged cars, and trade-ins across the Perth metro, with on-site valuations, same-day payment, and the paperwork handled cleanly through DoT. The product is sharp. The challenge was getting a brand-new entrant in front of the Perth sellers searching for it.

The Challenge

A New Car-Buying Brand In One Of Perth's Most Saturated Search Categories.

“Sell my car Perth” is a battlefield. The search results page is owned by national aggregators, dealer groups, and bidding platforms that have spent years and serious money building authority. For a brand starting from zero domain authority, zero local search presence, and no recognised mark in the category, the standard 6 to 12 month “ease into market” approach was not an option. A new entrant either lands with a brand and a digital experience strong enough to compete from launch day, or it loses 12 months to incumbents already on page one.

Sell My Car Pro had the licensing, the team, the operational capacity, and a clear positioning as a Licensed WA Motor Vehicle Dealer. What it lacked was a brand to stand behind, a custom digital experience designed for the way sellers actually behave, and an SEO foundation strong enough to compete with the national platforms from week one.

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The Solution

A Brand And Digital Build, End To End, With A Custom Tool At The Centre.

We delivered the full build from concept through to live site. The brand work covered the initial concept, the logo design, and a graphic design system that could carry across web, signage, social, and printed collateral. The web design translated the brand into a fully responsive, conversion-focused experience, with service architecture covering used cars, cars under finance, older and high-kilometre cars, damaged cars, and trade-ins. The web development was custom from the ground up, built to be fast, maintainable, and ready to scale.

The centrepiece of the build was a bespoke “Sell My Car” valuation tool. Rather than bolt on a generic third-party valuation widget, we engineered a custom tool tuned to the way Perth sellers describe their cars and the data points the Sell My Car Pro team actually use to make an offer. The result is a smoother seller journey, cleaner internal data, and a competitive advantage built into the website itself. SEO architecture was wired in alongside the build, structured around the full “sell my car Perth” keyword universe so the site could rank for transactional, research, and long-tail queries from launch.

On top of the keyword layer, we mapped the entity graph the site needed to own: the brand entity, the service entities (used cars, financed cars, damaged cars, trade-ins, older and high-kilometre cars), the geographic entities (Perth metro, WA), and the trust entities (Licensed WA Motor Vehicle Dealer, Motor Trade Association). Entity mapping connects the dots Google needs to confidently understand what the business does, where, and for whom. A long-form content programme was then built around those entities, with launch pillar articles, supporting cluster pages, and an ongoing editorial calendar that keeps the site compounding organic authority well past launch.

Concept & Creative Direction
The brand began with concept, mood boards, and a creative direction that landed on a confident, trustworthy mark for a Perth car-buying brand. Every later design decision flowed from that foundation, keeping the visual language coherent across every touchpoint.
Logo Design
A primary logo built to work across signage, web headers, social media, vehicle graphics, and printed collateral. Multiple configurations (horizontal, stacked, monogram, monochrome) and a usage guide protect the mark as the brand scales.
Graphic Design
A working graphic design system covering web banners, social tiles, brand collateral, and supporting visual assets. The design system is modular so the team can refresh seasonal campaigns and service updates without commissioning a new look every time.
Web Design
A clean, action-driven website translating the brand into a fully responsive, conversion-focused experience. Service pages built for each vertical, with trust signals (the WA Motor Vehicle Dealer licence, MTA membership) placed where they do the most work for seller confidence.
Custom Web Development
A bespoke development build from the ground up, with fast performance, clean code, and a maintainable structure the Sell My Car Pro team can update as the business grows. No off-the-shelf template constraints, no compromise on the seller experience.
Custom Sell My Car Valuation Tool
A bespoke instant-valuation tool engineered specifically for Sell My Car Pro. Tuned to the way Perth sellers describe their cars and the data points the team uses to make an offer, delivering a smoother seller journey and cleaner data than any off-the-shelf widget could offer.
SEO Architecture
A comprehensive keyword strategy spanning the full Perth car-selling search landscape, structured to rank for transactional, research, and long-tail planning queries that sellers run at every stage of the decision.
SEO Entity Mapping
A complete entity graph mapped across the brand, services, geographies, and trust signals that Google needs to understand who Sell My Car Pro is, what it does, and where. Entity coherence baked into the schema, the on-page content, and the internal linking, so the site reads as an authority in the category rather than just another keyword-stuffed page.
Content Creation
A launch cluster of pillar articles and ongoing editorial content covering the questions Perth sellers actually type into Google. Topics include timing the sale, finding market value, finance owing, insurance, paperwork, and luxury car tax. Written in brand voice, optimised for search, internally linked to service pages, and structured with FAQ schema to compete in the rich-result space.

The Result

320% More New Users. 168 Page-One Keywords In 90 Days.

Within the first 90 days, Sell My Car Pro had 168 keywords ranked on page one of Google across the Perth car-selling search landscape: branded queries, high-intent transactional terms (“sell my car Perth”, “car buyers Perth”), service-specific queries (cars under finance, damaged cars, trade-ins), and the long-tail planning questions that build organic authority over time. New users to the site increased 320% as organic search began compounding, and key events (enquiries, phone calls, custom valuation tool completions) increased 285%.

Over 60 keywords remain held on page one on an ongoing basis, keeping Sell My Car Pro visible across the highest-value seller searches in the Perth market. The custom valuation tool gives the business a competitive advantage that lives on the website itself, with cleaner internal data and a smoother seller experience than any off-the-shelf widget could deliver. A new entrant in a saturated category, competing with the national platforms from week one rather than month nine.

320%
Increase in new users reaching the site
168
Keywords on page one in the first 90 days
60+
Keywords held on page one ongoing
285%
Increase in key events and valuation tool completions
Ben helped our Sell My Car Pro develop a new website and took us through the tricks and traps to produce a fresh and professional image. I can highly recommend Ben and his team at Perth Digital Edge.
John Doe
Sell My Car Pro