Customer Journey Mapping: Google Search Console + LinkedIn Ads
What do customers do before they call or book? askotter reads Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer journey mapping with Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads work for a small business?
askotter reads Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads side by side so it can map the path customers take across your accounts. The whole path in one view, with every visit and decision point on it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Google Search Console
- Search queries and impressions, Click-through rates by query, Average position by keyword.
- From LinkedIn Ads
- Campaign performance, Audience demographics, Lead gen form data.
- Status
- LinkedIn Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Google Search Console or LinkedIn Ads. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
What do customers do before they call or book?
On paper the path is simple: someone sees an ad, visits the site and books. In real life they search twice, read reviews and come back days later on a different phone. Each tool sees only its own piece.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads side by side, so it can map the path customers take across your accounts.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our local SEO services work.
How Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads records line up
Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in Search Console clicks can be read against what LinkedIn Ads recorded in the same hours.
What customer journey mapping uses from each
Customer journey mapping needs the order of events for one person.
From Google Search Console that means the queries that bring first-time visitors to each page. From LinkedIn Ads it means the campaign and creative each lead responded to.
These two tools hold no shared customer identifier, so per-customer answers need a third connected tool that each side can match, such as GA4 or your CRM. Daily totals work with these two alone.
LinkedIn Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Google Search Console on its own
Search Console sees the search up to the click and stops there. It cannot say whether that visitor booked, bought or left.
Timing. Search Console numbers usually arrive two to three days behind, reported as daily totals per query and page.
Access. The Search Console API with read access to the property.
LinkedIn Ads on its own
LinkedIn sees clicks, lead-form submissions and the companies it reached. It never sees whether a lead became a deal.
Timing. LinkedIn reports conversions under its own windows, thirty days after a click and seven after a view by default.
Access. The LinkedIn Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
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Questions about Google Search Console + LinkedIn Ads
Do I need a developer to connect Google Search Console and LinkedIn Ads?
How is askotter's Customer Journey Mapping different from what Google Search Console shows on its own?
Google Search Console + LinkedIn Ads is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
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