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Paid Search and SEO for Industrial Software

SCADA, MES and IIoT software gets bought by engineers who check every claim and plant leaders who want to see the payback. The research takes months, and the deal closes through sales long after the first click.

We tie your ad spend to booked revenue and build the pages engineers search for, so you can see which channel brings orders.

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Industrial automation leader: 512% return on ad spend Paid search: $3.6M+ booked revenue attributed
Illustration of a Greek ship with ad banners for sails, sailing across a blue blueprint sea toward a small harbor temple

Sound familiar?

What industrial software teams tell us on discovery calls.

"Our ads bring form fills, and we can't say which ones became orders."

The ad platform counts a demo request as a win, while the real deal closes in your CRM months later. So the budget follows the campaigns that look busy, which aren't always the ones that sell.

"Controls engineers skip anything that reads like a brochure."

They want to know which PLCs you support, whether you speak OPC UA or MQTT and how long a rollout takes on one line. A page about "improved efficiency" loses them in the first paragraph.

"IT and OT both have a say, and they ask different questions."

The plant team wants uptime, IT wants to know how your software connects to their network, and finance wants the payback period. One product page can't answer all three.

"A lot of our deals start with a system integrator."

Integrators often pick the software they recommend for a client's project, and they research it the same way plant teams do. If your site only talks to the end user, the people who shape the shortlist go elsewhere for answers.

How we help industrial software teams bring in orders

Paid search brings demand now. Search, AI answers and LinkedIn build the trust that long industrial deals need.

Paid search

Ad spend tied to booked orders

For an industrial automation leader, we imported booked revenue from the CRM into the ad platform and rebuilt the account around Performance Max. Bidding then aimed at closed orders instead of form fills, and paid search became the top revenue channel across all digital sources.

We run the same CRM sync for software teams, so you can see which keywords bring pipeline in a sales cycle that runs for months.

Paid ads for B2B SaaS

BOFU SEO

Searches with a project behind them

We start with searches like mes software for discrete manufacturing, scada software comparison or oee tracking software. People who type those usually have a project and a budget. Then we build comparison and use case pages around them, each with the specs an engineer looks for and a clear next step to a demo.

SEO for B2B SaaS

Content marketing

Written with your application engineers

Our writers interview your application engineers and solutions team, then write guides with the details engineers care about, like supported protocols, data volumes and rollout time on one line. Your engineers review every draft before it goes live.

Ads stop the day you stop paying, while a strong guide keeps bringing in qualified engineers for years. That's why I'd never build an industrial pipeline on ads alone.

Content marketing for B2B SaaS

AI search (GEO)

In the summary and the click after it

In research from TREW Marketing and GlobalSpec, 75% of engineers had noticed AI summaries in their search results, but only 6% said the summary is usually enough. So you need to be named in the summary and own the page they click next. We write pages AI tools can quote, with specs, comparison tables and clear definitions, and track which prompts name you.

GEO for B2B SaaS

LinkedIn thought leadership

Lessons from the plant floor

Engineers trust people who've done the work. We interview your founder or CTO every two weeks and turn their views on IT and OT, legacy SCADA upgrades or rollout lessons into posts in their voice. You review every post before it goes out.

LinkedIn thought leadership

Paid search results from an industrial automation leader

One industrial project with the numbers its case study reports, next to the B2B software brands we work with.

Industrial automation leaderAnonymous client
Industrial automation / Paid search

512% ROAS on paid search, tracked to booked orders

An established maker of automation and control systems spent a real ad budget with no clear read on what it earned. We imported booked revenue from the CRM into the ad platform and rebuilt the account around Performance Max, so bids followed closed orders instead of form fills.

512%
Return on ad spend
$3.6M+
Booked revenue attributed to paid
63%
Lower cost per qualified opportunity
Read the industrial automation case study
B2B software clients

We've worked with B2B software brands like Katalon, Arrowsterr and Omniscient

  • Katalon

    Katalon, test automation software for QA teams.

  • Arrowsterr

    Arrowsterr, an agentic SEO and GEO platform.

  • Omniscient

    Omniscient, an agentic CRM.

1,000+posts published

The industrial client builds automation and control systems for production lines and sells to engineering teams who specify equipment carefully. The software clients next to it come from our wider B2B software work. See every project in our case studies.

What you get in the first 90 days

The same four steps we run for every client, set up for a long industrial sales cycle.

  1. 01
    Weeks 1 to 2

    Discovery

    We interview your application engineers and sales team and read notes from recent deals. We also audit your ad accounts and CRM to see which campaigns can be traced to an order today.

  2. 02
    Weeks 2 to 4

    Strategy

    • Offline conversion tracking plan
    • Keyword map for engineers, IT and plant leaders
    • AI search plan
    • 90-day content calendar
  3. 03
    Month 2 onward

    Publishing

    Campaigns move to revenue-based bidding once CRM data flows in. BOFU pages ship into your CMS, then technical guides on topics like MES rollouts or SCADA upgrades, each reviewed by your engineers.

  4. 04
    Month 3

    Measure

    You get a report on booked revenue by campaign, rankings, AI answer mentions and demo requests. Then we move budget and content toward what brings orders.

Industrial software marketing questions

What industrial software teams ask us most. For anything else, book a call.

Do you have industrial experience?

Yes. We ran paid search for an industrial automation leader that makes automation and control systems, and reached 512% return on ad spend with $3.6M+ in booked revenue attributed to paid.

That client sells systems and hardware, and we haven't published a case study from a SCADA or MES software company yet. We've also written about the category in our industrial content marketing guide.

How do you track ads when a deal takes months to close?

We set up offline conversion tracking that imports booked revenue from your CRM into the ad platform. Each closed order flows back to the campaign that sourced it, so automated bidding learns from real deal values instead of form fills.

That's the setup behind the 512% return on ad spend in our industrial automation case study.

Can your writers handle topics like OPC UA or MES integration?

They write from interviews with your engineers, so the technical detail comes from the people who know it best. Every draft goes back to your team for a technical review before it's published.

We add their notes to a style guide, so later drafts need fewer fixes and reviews get faster.

Should we start with paid search or SEO?

If you need pipeline this quarter, start with paid search on your highest-intent keywords, with revenue tracking from day one. SEO takes longer: rankings usually start moving within 30 to 45 days, and demo requests tend to show up around 90 to 120 days.

We usually suggest running both on one keyword list. Ads stop the day you stop paying, while a strong page keeps bringing in engineers.

How much does it cost?

SEO and GEO plans are $4,000 a month for Starter, $8,000 for Growth and $10,000+ for Authority, on a 12-month term. LinkedIn is priced per profile, from $2,500 a month. Paid ads management has its own plans, from $4,000 a month plus your ad spend, on our paid ads page.

A 6-month term adds 5% and a 3-month term adds 10%. Everything each plan includes is on our pricing page.

Let's tie your marketing to booked orders

Tell us about your software, your buyers and how deals close today. You can also email us at vincent@perceptric.com.

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