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Case Study · Premier Watersports

How Premier Watersports sold 65 more boats in five months

Premier Watersports

Real numbers. A real dealer. Same inventory, same market.

Premier Watersports is a three-location marine dealership in Tennessee — Knoxville, Nashville/Gallatin, and Norris Lake — selling Supra, Moomba, and pre-owned inventory. They were the first dealership on DealerEdge. Every figure below — boats sold, leads, traffic, rankings — compares March 6 – July 29, 2026 against the exact same dates in 2025, on the site it replaced.

+33% Boats sold — year over year
+65 More boats off the lot than 2025
117→800 Form leads — +584%
The Business Result

65 more boats sold

March 6 – July 29, 2026, measured against the identical dates in 2025: Premier's unit sales are up 33% — 65 more boats off the lot, from the same three stores, in the same market, against the same season.

We won't tell you a website sold those boats. What we'll tell you is what changed around them: same inventory, same team, same lakes — and a front door that went from 117 form leads to 800, from 34 ranking keywords to 122, and from a 13.8-second mobile load to 2.3.

Every other number on this page is a leading indicator. This is the number they were supposed to move.

Lead Volume

117 → 800 form leads

Across the same five-month window, named form-lead submissions rose from 117 to 800 — a 584% increase. The site also got dramatically better at converting the traffic it already had: 0.32% → 1.66%, from one lead every 312 sessions to one every 60. That is 5.2× the conversion efficiency on the same visitors.

Lead channel Since launch
Boat inquiry forms 662
Phone clicks 617
Chat conversations 134
Text-us submissions 128
Scheduled visits 10

Total lead interactions across every channel: 778 → 1,551, up 99% year over year.

The Site

From failing to perfect scores

Metric Before DealerEdge After DealerEdge
Mobile page load 13.8 seconds 2.3 seconds (83% faster)
Google PageSpeed (mobile) Failed performance & accessibility 100 performance · 100 accessibility · 96 best practices · 100 SEO
Security header grade F (0/6 headers) A (6/6 headers)
Schema markup None AutoDealer schema across all 3 locations
Meta / OG / sitemap Missing Complete, unique per page

Premier is now the only dealer in its competitive set with structured data.

34→122 Keywords ranking — +259%
7→49 Top-10 keywords — +600%
1,948 US organic keywords today
Search Visibility

+259% in 17 days

Tracked against Tennessee-targeted keywords over the first 17 days after launch (March 6 → March 23):

  • Keywords ranking: 34 → 122 (+259%)
  • Keywords in the top 10: 7 → 49 (+600%)
  • “boats for sale knoxville tn” (390 searches/mo): #22 → #9
  • “pontoon boats for sale in knoxville tn”: #61 → #14
  • “supra boat dealers”: unranked → #5
  • “moomba boat dealer near me”: unranked → #6
  • “boat dealers knoxville tn”: #26 → #6

Today premierwatersports.net ranks for 1,948 US organic keywords with a Semrush Authority Score of 27 — the highest in its competitive set.

Traffic

More of everything, five months running

March 6 – July 29, against the identical dates in 2025:

Metric Old site (2025) DealerEdge (2026) Change
Users 23,192 29,253 +26%
Sessions 36,523 48,062 +32%
Page views 128,797 199,847 +55%
Organic search sessions 20,159 28,472 +41%
Boat detail views 26,324 39,827 +51%
Organic engagement rate 70.9% 76.5% +5.6 pts
The Part Nobody Believes

Paid traffic down 97%

Over the same five months, paid sessions fell from 6,220 to 205 — a 97% drop. Premier grew users 26%, organic sessions 41%, and boat detail views 51% while almost entirely switching off bought traffic.

That is the whole argument for owning your search presence instead of renting it. The traffic that replaced it earns itself, every month, without a media budget behind it.

Market Position

BDPI 79 — “Dominates”

On the Boat Dealer Presence Index, Premier scores 79 — 33 points ahead of the #2 dealer in its market (Bunch Marine, 46). Pillar scores: Site Health 89, Search Visibility 75, AI Readiness 74.

“…we’re getting more leads, and better leads.”

Zach Hommerding, Premier Watersports — sending over the sales numbers, five months in.

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“What other dealers
do you have?”

An honest answer: Premier Watersports is our flagship dealership — the first dealer on the platform, and we publish their numbers in full because they're measured, dated, and verifiable.

Before DealerEdge existed as a dealer platform, our team built and ran the digital platforms behind boat manufacturers themselves — Supra (cost per lead cut 89%), Moomba (leads grown 809%), Regulator, and the Jayco family of brands. Those are manufacturer results, not dealer case studies — and we label them that way. That manufacturer work is where the platform's engine comes from; Premier is the proof of what it does at the dealership level. As more dealers launch, their results will be published here the same way — real windows, real numbers, real dealers, year over year.

Want us to run the same before/after on your dealership? Schedule a demo and we'll baseline your current site, search visibility, and lead volume before you decide anything.

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How This Was Measured

One window throughout: March 6 – July 29, 2026 against the identical dates in 2025 — DealerEdge on one side, the site it replaced on the other. Traffic and lead figures come from Google Analytics 4 (property 441605442). Unit sales are Premier's own figures over that same window. Keyword positions are Semrush position tracking against a Tennessee-targeted set; the +259% ranking move is the first 17 days after launch, and is labelled as such. Page performance is the Google PageSpeed Insights API on mobile; security grades are a response-header audit. Last updated July 30, 2026.

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