Paste each prompt into Claude, one at a time. Let it finish before you paste the next one. Anything in [brackets] is yours to fill in.
What you need connected:
GA4 for your store or stores
Market inventory: the scraper database in Supabase
Rankmatic open in a Chrome tab, with Claude in Chrome connected
Nothing here changes your website, your ad accounts, or your data. Every prompt only reads, and every email is a draft.
1
Is your website sending the events you'll need?
The Automotive Standards Council (ASC) GA4 standard is on version 1.2. Plenty of stores still aren't on 1.0.
1aAudit every store
Prompt 1a
Read the ASC GA4 Standard v1.2 event list here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lrx7-qL3p17tMA7Dpox2q7yIAfmeIZ6W7NtkWBTU2j0/export?format=csv&gid=0
Then:
1. List every GA4 property I can access and which store each one belongs to.
2. For each property, pull event counts by event name for the last 90 days. Where the event_owner parameter is available, include it so we can see which vendor is sending each event.
3. Compare each store against the ASC 1.2 list. Mark every ASC event as Firing or Missing. If an event only makes sense for a tool the store may not have (parts forms, video calls, chat), mark it "No activity, confirm with vendor" instead of Missing.
4. Assign every missing event to the vendor responsible:
- Website provider: page views, item and list page views, CTA, menu, media, special offer, form engagement, click to call, and sales form submissions
- Service scheduler: service and service appointment submissions
- Call tracking provider: voice engagement and voice submission events
- Chat or texting provider: comm engagement and comm submission events
- Digital retailing tool: retail process events
5. Show me one table: store, vendor, missing events, and the store's GA4 property ID.
Don't guess. If you can't tell whether an event is firing, say so. Stop after the table and check with me before writing anything else.
1bDraft the vendor emails
Prompt 1b
For each store and vendor with missing events, draft an email to that vendor.
Each email should include:
- The store name and website
- The GA4 property ID
- Each missing event by its exact name, with a one-line description from the ASC spec
- A request to implement ASC GA4 Standard v1.2, including the event_owner parameter
- A request for a go-live date within 30 days
Keep each email under 150 words, friendly, and specific. Group them by vendor in one document so I can copy each one. Draft only. Do not send anything.
2
Are your ad platforms optimizing toward the right thing?
Prompt
Look at the key events marked on each of my GA4 properties. For each key event, tell me whether it's a real lead (a form, a call, a chat, or an appointment) or just engagement (a page view, a click, a scroll).
Then explain, in plain English, what Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, and TikTok would be optimizing toward if they bid on the conversions I have today. Rank the fixes by how much ad spend they affect.
3
Find the traffic hitting dead pages (404s)
3aFind every 404 and where it came from
Prompt 3a
Using GA4 for the last 90 days, find every page view that landed on a "page not found" page. GA4 doesn't record HTTP status codes, so find them by page title ("Page Not Found", "404", "Oops") and by the error_code parameter on asc_pageview if the site sends it. Tell me which method found what.
For each broken URL, show:
- Sessions and users
- Where the traffic came from: source / medium, campaign, and referring site
- What the URL was probably for: a sold vehicle's VDP, an old model page, an expired special, an old service page, or something else
Sort by sessions. Group the results by who caused the broken link:
- Our website (old internal links, deleted pages)
- Our ads (Google, Microsoft, Meta, or TikTok ads pointing at a dead URL)
- A third party (a listing site, the OEM site, a directory, an email or text campaign)
Stop after the table and check with me.
3bBuild the redirect list and the emails
Prompt 3b
For each broken URL, recommend the best live page to 301 redirect it to:
- A sold vehicle goes to the search results page for that same make, model, and condition
- An old model or specials page goes to the current one
- Anything else goes to the closest matching page, never just the homepage
Give me the redirect list as a two-column table (old URL, new URL) the website provider can load directly. Then draft emails:
- To our website provider, with the redirect list attached
- To whoever runs our ads, listing each ad or campaign still sending traffic to a dead URL
- To each third party linking to a dead page, with the correct URL
Draft only. Do not send anything.
4
Is your ad traffic landing in the right place?
Every campaign has a job. A vehicle listing ad (VLA) is selling one car, so it should land on that car's VDP. If it lands on a search results page instead, the car probably sold, the feed is stale, or the ad catalog is broken, and you're paying for a click that has to start shopping over.
4aFind campaigns landing on the wrong page type
Prompt 4a
Using GA4 for the last 30 days, pull sessions by source / medium, campaign, and landing page. Classify every landing page as one of: VDP (one vehicle), SRP (search results or inventory list), model page, specials, service or scheduler, finance or trade, homepage, 404, or other. Use the URL patterns on my site, and tell me the patterns you used.
Then compare each campaign's intent to where it actually landed:
- Vehicle listing ads (Google VLA, Microsoft, and Meta or TikTok inventory and catalog ads) should land on a VDP
- Model or trim search campaigns should land on a model page or a filtered SRP
- Service campaigns should land on a service page or the scheduler
- Brand campaigns can land on the homepage
List every campaign where more than [10]% of sessions landed on the wrong page type. Show sessions, engagement rate, and lead rate for the right landing vs the wrong one.
4bFind the cause and draft the fix
Prompt 4b
For each mismatch, tell me the most likely cause:
- A VLA or catalog ad landing on an SRP or a 404: the vehicle sold and the inventory feed or ad catalog didn't update, or the feed's link template is wrong
- Inventory ads landing on the homepage: the catalog's URL field is broken
- Search or service campaigns landing on the wrong page: the ad's final URL is wrong
Estimate what those wrong landings cost: sessions on the wrong page times the difference in lead rate. Then draft one email per responsible party: our website provider, our inventory feed provider, and whoever manages each ad account. Draft only.
5
Talk to your market (inventory scraper)
The scraper reads every competitor's public inventory once a day. It knows what's on their lot, what they're asking, when they cut the price, and when a car disappears (which usually means it sold).
Some prompts need history. Price cuts, days on lot, and how fast cars sell only show up after the scraper has run daily for at least two weeks. On day one, run 5f, 5a, 5b, and 5e.
Every inventory prompt starts with this line. Dealer websites spell the same trim differently ("Lariat" and "Lariat®", "SEL" and "SEL AWD", "Transit-350" and "Transit Commercial"), and without it, Claude reports gaps that aren't real.
5aWhat should I buy or order?
Prompt 5a
Before comparing anything, normalize names: ignore ® and ™, ignore case, treat drive type words in the trim (AWD, FWD, 4WD, 4x4) as part of drivetrain, not trim, and group model variants that are the same vehicle. Show me any names you merged.
Using the market inventory database, find the models and trims that competitors in my market stock in real volume and I have little or none of. Only include makes my store sells. Only count a trim if at least two different competitors carry it, so one dealer's opinion doesn't count as a trend.
If the scraper has at least two weeks of history, also check how fast each trim sells in my market: how many days units lasted on competitors' sites before disappearing. Rank by volume (and speed, if available), and give me a buy list for the used car manager and an order list for new.
5bWhere am I priced wrong, in both directions?
Prompt 5b
Before comparing anything, normalize names: ignore ® and ™, ignore case, treat drive type words in the trim (AWD, FWD, 4WD, 4x4) as part of drivetrain, not trim, and group model variants that are the same vehicle. Show me any names you merged.
Compare my pricing to competitors for every model and trim we both have, same condition and same model year. Don't compare raw prices: packages swing MSRP by $15,000 on the same trim. Compare discount off MSRP instead, and convert the difference to dollars per unit.
Leave out competitors that don't publish MSRP, or whose price always equals MSRP (they probably only show MSRP), and tell me which ones you left out.
Give me two lists:
1. Discounted less than the market. These are my first price conversations.
2. Discounted more than the market. I may be leaving money on the table.
For each, show store, stock numbers, my discount, the market discount, the number of competitor units compared, and dollars per unit. If the scraper has two weeks of history, add days on lot. Flag any gap over 15% as "check equipment before repricing."
5cWhen do my competitors blink? needs 2+ weeks of daily scrapes
Prompt 5c
Look at every competitor price cut in the price history. For each competitor, tell me:
- How many days a unit usually sits before the first cut
- How big the first cut usually is, in dollars and percent
- Which models they cut most
Then tell me, for this week, which of their units are coming up on their usual cut day, and whether I have the same trim. That's who is about to undercut me.
5dWho is stuck, and what does that mean for me? needs 90+ days of history
Prompt 5d
Find competitor units that have been on their lot more than 90 days. Group by dealer and model. For each group, tell me:
- If I have the same trim, whether I'm priced above or below them
- If I don't have it, whether it's a dealer trade opportunity
- Whether this is a model the whole market is stuck on, and I should slow down buying it
5eWhere should my ad money go this week?
Prompt 5e
Before comparing anything, normalize names: ignore ® and ™, ignore case, treat drive type words in the trim (AWD, FWD, 4WD, 4x4) as part of drivetrain, not trim, and group model variants that are the same vehicle. Show me any names you merged.
Using the market inventory database, find the trims where I have at least three units and my discount off MSRP is at or above the market's. If the scraper has two weeks of history, also require that the market sells them quickly. Those are the units my ads should push this week.
Then find trims where I discount well below the market or the market is flooded. Those are the ones to pause or lower bids on until the price changes. Give me both lists by store.
5fIs the scraper telling the truth?
Run this first if anything above looks strange.
Prompt 5f
Check the scraper runs for the last 7 days. List any dealer that errored, found zero vehicles, or dropped more than 30% in unit count from one day to the next.
Then check data quality by dealer: missing MSRP, missing price, price above MSRP, and fields holding the wrong thing (like a transmission in the drivetrain field). Tell me which dealers' data I shouldn't trust for pricing yet, and why.
6
Put two systems together (this is where agents win)
6aCars nobody is looking at
Prompt 6a
Compare my active inventory in the market database against GA4 item page views (asc_item_pageview, matched on VIN or stock number) for the last 14 days. List every unit on my lot with zero or almost zero views. For each, suggest why: missing photos, price above market, not syndicating, or low demand for that trim.
6bViews but no leads
Prompt 6b
Find my units with the most GA4 item page views in the last 14 days and no form, call, or chat leads tied to them. Compare each one's price to the market. Tell me which look like pricing problems and which look like merchandising problems.
6cWhat shoppers want vs what I stock
Prompt 6c
Rank the makes, models, and trims shoppers view most on my website over the last 30 days. Put that next to how many units I have and how many my competitors have. Where is demand high and my supply low?
6dAds still running on cars that are gone
Prompt 6d
Find VDP URLs that got paid traffic in GA4 in the last 14 days for vehicles that are no longer active in the market database for my store. Those are ads, feeds, or catalogs still spending money on cars I already sold. List them by campaign and ad platform.
7
Question the dashboard (Rankmatic in Chrome)
7aWhat does each number actually mean?
Prompt 7a
Read the Rankmatic dashboard open in my Chrome tab. List every metric on the page and exactly how it's calculated. Flag any metric whose name might not mean what a GM thinks it means, and ask me the five questions you need answered to interpret it correctly.
7bCheck the dashboard against the source
Prompt 7b
Take three numbers from the Rankmatic dashboard in my Chrome tab and pull the same numbers directly from GA4 for the same date range. Where they don't match, explain why.
7cHow could these numbers lie?
Prompt 7c
For each KPI on the Rankmatic dashboard, describe a realistic way the number could improve while the store gets less profitable. Then check the data for signs that's happening now.
8
Monday morning
Prompt
Write a one-page Monday note for my GM using GA4, the market database, and the Rankmatic dashboard: what changed last week, the three things that need attention, and who should own each one. Plain English, no charts, under 300 words.
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Tell me what you found when you ran these. I'm Dustin Schuler, Marketing Director at Bud Clary Auto Group.