Commercial feeds from GasBuddy, AAA, OPIS, and Wex cover hundreds of thousands of stations with current pricing per grade. Brand-specific rosters from Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, and Chevron expose their own stations through partner APIs. Open data like the US AFDC catalog adds alternative fuels (E85, biodiesel, CNG, hydrogen). SleekRank reads CSV, JSON, REST, or Google Sheets, so any source works. Production sites usually combine a brand roster for metadata with a price feed for current pricing.

Daily refresh is the practical baseline since wholesale fuel costs shift overnight and most stations re-price each morning. For high-traffic urban markets where stations re-price intraday, an hourly cache cycle is reasonable but increases feed cost. Set cacheDuration to 86400 for daily or 3600 for hourly. SleekRank's WP-CLI cache flush also lets you trigger ad-hoc refreshes when wholesale pricing makes a major move.

Store fuel grades as an array of objects with grade name, price, and timestamp, and use a list mapping to render the comparison table on each station page. Most price feeds publish per-grade pricing in this shape directly. For premium-versus-regular spread analysis or 30-day pricing trends, embed a chart widget on the base template that reads time-series data from the same feed or a separate analytics source.

Many stations now host EV chargers (BP Pulse, Shell Recharge, Chevron-installed third-party). Add an ev-chargers array column on the station row with connector types and power levels, then use a list mapping to render an EV section on stations that have it. Selector mappings hide the section at gas-only stations. For users searching for fuel-and-charging stops, this makes the station page useful to both ICE and EV drivers.

Add a status column with values like open, closed, rebranded, and under-construction, then either filter the source or use selector mappings to swap copy when a station is offline. Rebranded stations (Hess to Speedway, Sunoco to 7-Eleven) often retain inbound links to the old brand for years, so keeping the page live with a clear rebrand notice plus updated brand info preserves SEO equity.

Some sites operate as co-branded stations, like a Sunoco fuel canopy with a 7-Eleven convenience store, or a Shell pump with a Tim Hortons cafe. Model these as one row with separate fuel-brand and convenience-brand columns, or as a brands array if more than two. The base template renders both prominently. Co-branded sites often draw search traffic for either brand, so getting both in the page metadata helps.

Yes. The full US fuel station catalog has roughly 150,000 retail sites and SleekRank's caching layer handles catalogs of that size. The bottleneck on national fuel directories is usually crawl budget and feed cost, so the practical move is to filter to operational stations in target geographies and let lower-traffic rural sites rely on aggregator coverage rather than maintaining individual pages.

Yes. Use additional page groups at /gas-brands/{slug}/ to list every station in a brand, and at /gas-cities/{slug}/ to list stations in a city sorted by current price. Both source from the same station dataset filtered appropriately. Per-city sorted-by-price indexes capture high-intent search demand for queries like 'cheapest gas in Houston' that per-station pages alone can't cover.