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How to use PPC to inform your Link Building Strategy

PPC (pay-per-click) advertising, such as Google ads, can be a valuable tool for informing your link-building strategy.

By analyzing the performance of your PPC campaigns, you can gain valuable insights into which keywords and pages are driving the most traffic and conversions.

Tapping into valuable insights from your paid media efforts is a great way to improve your SEO.

Guest Posting

PPC data can help you identify websites that are relevant to your industry and have a large audience. By guest posting on these websites, you can build links back to your website, which can help to improve your search engine rankings and improve your overall domain authority, which is a valuable metric that Google uses to define whether or not your site is worthy of appearing on the first page of the SERPs. Also, guest posting can help you build relationships with other website owners and influencers in your industry.

Digital PR

To maximize the bang for your marketing buck, make sure that PPC and PR work together in harmony. Analyzing data from your campaigns helps you identify which pages of your website are driving conversions – use this intelligence to craft outreach plans targeting media influencers such as journalists who will promote your content through digital channels!

How to use PPC to inform your Link Building Strategy
How to use PPC to inform your Link Building Strategy

The power of PPC keywords and phrases

Leveraging the power of PPC and link-building together can help you get a clear view on which keywords are driving the highest traffic levels and conversions. Analyzing your existing PPC data provides valuable insights in terms of what words have proved to be effective: use those same key phrases when building links for an even stronger SEO performance!

Identify your strongest pages

Unlock the power of PPC data to supercharge your link-building efforts! Identify which landing pages are delivering you the most conversions, and use that knowledge as a starting point for building links. Increase rankings on key pages to drive further traffic – and ultimately more conversion success – back to your website.

Low performing pages

Ok, what about the other way around now?
With PPC data, it’s possible to identify pages with underperforming metrics that still contain substantial promise. Whether the page requires more attention or further optimization, these insights can be invaluable in taking your site’s performance to new heights!

Ride the buzz wave

Leverage your pay per click data to uncover potential content ideas and capitalize on trending topics. Dive into campaigns that are performing above average and explore the associated keywords further—this could inspire timely, relevant pieces of content tailored towards capturing audience attention.

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Which markets change your campaign, and how

A working companion to the multi-market playbook. Explore what actually differs between the UK, US, DACH and APAC — or answer four questions to see whether your account list needs one campaign structure or several.

United Kingdom

UK
Message-based formats
Available

Outside the EU/EEA/Switzerland exclusion since Brexit, so Conversation Ads (successor to Message Ads) are not caught by the EU restriction that applies to Germany.

Governing regime

UK GDPR. Standard UK GDPR employee-data handling applies; no equivalent to Germany's works-council co-determination layer.

Decision culture

Closer to US pace. Single decision-maker with committee sign-off is common; buying-group validation is typically faster than DACH.

Localization

English-native. No localisation tax on creative or landing pages for UK-only targeting.

United States

US
Message-based formats
Available

Conversation Ads run without the EU/EEA/Switzerland restriction.

Governing regime

CCPA / CPRA. California's B2B and employee-data exemptions expired 1 Jan 2023 (AB 25 / AB 1355 / AB 1281 not renewed). Business-contact data in ABM lists touching California residents is now in scope.

Decision culture

Fast-moving, champion-led. Often an internal champion drives the process with executive sign-off, rather than slower group consensus.

Localization

English-native. Tone and proof points differ from UK (ROI framing, case-study style) but no language barrier.

Germany-led DACH

DACH
Message-based formats
Unavailable in EU/EEA/CH

Following a Nov 2021 CJEU ruling that native inbox advertising needs direct-marketing consent under the ePrivacy framework, LinkedIn stopped EU-targeted Message/Conversation Ads (new campaigns blocked 15 Dec 2021, existing ones suspended 10 Jan 2022).

Governing regime

GDPR + BDSG. Germany's Federal Data Protection Act adds works-council (Betriebsrat) co-determination rights over some employee-data processing. A works agreement cannot itself legitimate otherwise-inadmissible processing (German court ruling reported Jan 2025).

Decision culture

Consensus-driven. Formal sign-off and longer internal validation typically precede commercial conversations — plan reporting windows accordingly.

Localization

German materially outperforms English. True below enterprise-only accounts; enterprise buying groups are more English-tolerant, but mid-market is not.

Singapore-led APAC

APAC
Message-based formats
Confirm in Campaign Manager

Singapore sits outside the EU/EEA/Switzerland exclusion, so formats are presumed available — but coverage isn't centrally documented by geography, so verify before planning.

Governing regime

PDPA (Singapore). A distinct consent-and-purpose-limitation regime, not equivalent to GDPR. Treat as its own compliance track, not a GDPR analogue.

Decision culture

Not representative of wider APAC. Singapore is English-language and Western-business-norm-adjacent; this does not extend to Japan, Korea or Greater China buying culture.

Localization

English viable — for Singapore only. Do not treat English-only creative as a proxy for the rest of APAC if the account list extends beyond Singapore/Hong Kong hubs.

Decision-culture notes are directional, not universal — treat as a planning prior, not a rule for every account.

Is the target account list evaluated by one centralised, cross-border buying committee, or by in-market/regional committees?

Does the plan rely on message-based formats (Conversation Ads) in any EU/EEA/Switzerland market?

Does language localisation materially change conversion quality in at least one target market (e.g. DACH below enterprise, or APAC beyond Singapore/Hong Kong)?

Is your target-account list in every market comfortably above LinkedIn's practical minimum audience size (commonly cited around 300)?

Recommendation

Answer the questions above

Select one answer for each question to see the recommendation.

Recommendation

A unified structure fits your answers

Your account list is centrally decided, doesn't depend on a restricted message format, and localisation isn't a material factor — the exception case for a single, unified campaign structure.

  • None of the market-splitting triggers apply — re-check this if your account list or market mix changes.

Recommendation

Split by market: separate campaign groups, budgets and thresholds

At least one structural factor makes a shared template unreliable across your markets.

  • Regional buying committees mean each market is a separate decision unit — a shared campaign group would blend distinct audiences.
  • A message-format plan cannot run as one structure if it includes an EU/EEA/Switzerland market — Conversation Ads aren't available there, so at minimum that market needs a different format mix.
  • Where localisation changes conversion quality, a shared budget and qualification threshold will misread the localised market's real performance.
  • At least one market may sit below the practical minimum audience size — consider folding that market into a regional structure rather than giving it a standalone campaign group.
  • Check each market's target-account list against LinkedIn's minimum audience guidance before finalising how many standalone campaign groups to build.
Built from the claim ledger behind LinkedIn Ads for Enterprise Technology: A Multi-Market Demand Generation Playbook . Two items (EU/EEA/Switzerland message-format restriction, ~300-account audience floor) are corroborated across independent sources but not verified against LinkedIn's own current help pages — confirm both in Campaign Manager before final budget commitment. Last reviewed 14 August 2026.

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