Dealer Spike
The Dealer Spike alternative for RV dealers
Dealer Spike is the incumbent in this category. This page is a straight account of what changes when an RV dealer moves to ScoutRV, written for someone who is already looking.
What Dealer Spike is
Dealer Spike is one of the largest dealer website and digital-marketing providers in North America, serving RV, powersports, marine, trailer, agriculture and heavy-equipment dealers. Alongside websites it sells SEO, paid search, reputation and other managed marketing services.
What Dealer Spike offers
Stated from public information about the company, so you can weigh it yourself:
- Serves RV, powersports, marine, trailer, agriculture and heavy-equipment dealers from one vendor.
- Sells websites alongside SEO, paid search and reputation management as a bundle.
Why dealers tell us they move
What follows is what dealers said when they switched. It is reported experience, not a measurement we made of Dealer Spike’s product — we are careful about that distinction and you should be sceptical of any vendor who is not.
- Turnaround on site changes. This is the single most common thing dealers raise with us — not that changes are impossible, but that they route through a ticket queue and land in weeks rather than the same day.
- Template familiarity. Dealers tell us their site looks like the other dealers in their market, because it does — that is what a large templated platform produces.
- Lead volume from the traffic they already had. Dealers who switch are usually not trying to buy more traffic; they are trying to convert the traffic they are already paying for.
Side by side
ScoutRV compared with Dealer Spike
Where a cell says Not published, that vendor does not publish the information and we are not going to invent it. Where it says Varies by package, it genuinely differs by tier — ask them directly.
| ScoutRV | Dealer Spike | |
|---|---|---|
| Google Lighthouse performance | 96 mobile / 82 desktop — #1 in the RV dealer-platform category | Not published |
| Plain-English inventory search | Included — "30ft bunkhouse under $45k, sleeps 6" returns real units | Not published |
| AI shopping concierge | Included, 24/7, hands off to your team with full context | Not published |
| Partial lead capture | Multi-step forms surface usable contact data from incomplete submissions | Not published |
| Dedicated account rep | Every dealer, named, who knows your store | Varies by package |
| Turnaround on site changes | Same day | Varies by package |
| DMS + CRM integration | All major RV DMS and CRM providers — no manual uploads | Varies by package |
| Dealer-editable site | Drag-and-drop visual editor your team runs without us | Varies by package |
Verify our column rather than trusting it. Ask us for three live customer URLs and run them through Google PageSpeed Insights on mobile — and ask Dealer Spike for the same.
What actually changes
Across active dealer groups, the average is a 2× lift in unique leads per day in the first 30 days, measured against each dealer’s own pre-launch baseline rather than an industry benchmark.
We publish the individual results behind that average, including one that came in below it — because an average with no bottom half is not an average.
Common questions
Switching from Dealer Spike
Is ScoutRV cheaper than Dealer Spike?+
We price per dealership rather than off a public rate card, so a straight comparison depends on which Dealer Spike package you are on and what services are bundled into it. Bring your current invoice to the demo and we will map it line by line against what Scout includes — most of the value dealers find is in the lead lift, not the line item.
What happens to my SEO if I move off Dealer Spike?+
This is the part most dealers are right to worry about, and it is the part we handle with the most care. Every URL on your old site gets a 301 redirect to its closest equivalent on the new one, mapped from six months of your own Search Console click data, and your highest-traffic pages keep their existing titles and copy rather than being replaced with generated text. Vehicle detail pages are matched one-to-one by stock number.
Can I keep my current domain and email?+
Yes. Your domain moves to us with no interruption, and your email is unaffected — it runs on separate DNS records that we do not touch.
How long does the switch take?+
Most dealers go live within a few weeks of kickoff. Inventory, branding and content migrate for you; you are not rebuilding your site by hand.
Bring your current invoice and your lead volume.
We will map it against what Scout includes, in the open, on the first call.
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