Accountant ads in Sunshine Coast, by opportunity
A Google Ads click for an accountant in Sunshine Coast costs A$16.22 at the median (377 searches a month, pulled October 2026, Google Ads via DataForSEO). No margin or call-to-book rate is published for accountants here, so the payback figures need your own. No niche clears the Quick cash, Big tickets or Client book tests on these numbers, so the plan below works niche by niche.
No margin or call-to-book rate is published for accountants here, so the payback figures need your own.
Dot colour: a niche pays back within the US benchmark call rate (green), needs up to twice that call rate (amber), or needs more than twice that call rate (red); a red niche only reads "needs repeat work or a bigger return" when its break-even call rate is over 100%. Teal means no urgent-intent benchmark exists for this niche, so compare the break-even rate with your own call rate instead.
Where the money is, by niche
No niche clears a payback test on these numbers, so every niche is shown together. Figures use Sunshine Coast click prices and the return rates in the plan below; change the rates there and these update.
Every niche: Individual tax return
No niche clears the payback tests yet. Individual tax return covers 'tax accountant', 'tax return accountant' and 'accountant near me': 132 searches a month at A$7.33 a click.
What A$1,000 a month buys in Every niche (worked example)
Enter a budget and the return rates to see what this segment buys.
Keywords in Every niche
The shared pool keywords, 'accountant' and 'tax agent', can feed any segment. See the full keyword table.
Every niche, grouped by segment
Tap Plan on a niche to plan it. Use Sort to re-order. Green pays back within the US benchmark call rate, amber needs up to twice that, red needs more.
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| Niche | Return value (default) | Clicks that call | Calls that book | Margin per extra return | Repeat | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual tax return | A$250 | 2.64% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Finance & Insurance) | put in yours | put in yours | put in yours | None |
| Small business accounting / BAS compliance | A$2,500 | 2.64% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Finance & Insurance) | put in yours | put in yours | put in yours | None |
| BAS agent (quarterly lodgement) | A$300 | 2.64% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Finance & Insurance) | put in yours | put in yours | put in yours | None |
| SMSF accountant (admin + audit) | A$4,139 | 2.64% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Finance & Insurance) | put in yours | put in yours | put in yours | None |
| Bookkeeping (adjacent) | A$1,000 | 2.64% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Finance & Insurance) | put in yours | put in yours | put in yours | None |
Keyword table
Two keywords carry more than half of the searches. Each keyword is tagged with the segment its niche belongs to; the shared pool can feed any of them. Google rounds search volumes and estimates prices; treat small differences as noise. "Top-of-page bid, low to high" is Google Ads' own estimate of what you would need to bid to show near the top of the results page, not a price anyone has paid.
The market every segment shares
These numbers don't pick a segment for you. They set the size of the prize and the price of entry for all of them.
Accountant ads across 8 Qld cities
8th of 8 QLD cities by median cost per click, the dearest. 3rd of 8 QLD cities by monthly searches, among the three most.
| City | Cost per click (A$, median) | Searches a month | Searches per 10,000 people |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane | A$10.89 | 5,577 | 19.7 |
| Gold Coast | A$12.58 | 1,248 | 16.4 |
| Sunshine Coast | A$16.22 | 377 | 8.9 |
| Toowoomba | A$13.06 | 242 | 15.7 |
| Townsville | A$10.82 | 232 | 12.2 |
| Cairns | A$7.25 | 215 | 13.1 |
| Mackay | A$3.50 | 128 | 14.3 |
| Rockhampton | A$2.02 | 103 | 12.3 |
Searches per 10,000 people use each city's own population (ABS 2025). Bold is Sunshine Coast.
Accountant ads across the 25 cities
Wagga Wagga has the dearest clicks (A$45.50) and Rockhampton the cheapest (A$2.02). Sunshine Coast is 21st of 25 cities by median cost per click, mid-table, and 10th of 25 cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
| City | Cost per click (A$, median) | Searches a month | Change vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wagga Wagga | 46 |
74 |
-62.4% |
| Ballarat | 27 |
185 |
+5.7% |
| Geelong | 17 |
250 |
-15.5% |
| Central Coast | 17 |
412 |
-26.9% |
| Sunshine Coast | 16 |
377 |
-20.8% |
| Newcastle | 13 |
460 |
-17.6% |
| Toowoomba | 13 |
242 |
-5.2% |
| Gold Coast | 13 |
1,248 |
-20.7% |
| Perth | 12 |
3,452 |
-25.6% |
| Adelaide | 12 |
2,362 |
-23.1% |
| Wollongong | 12 |
284 |
-16.0% |
| Sydney | 11 |
10,408 |
-26.1% |
| Brisbane | 11 |
5,577 |
-29.4% |
| Townsville | 11 |
232 |
-16.8% |
| Bunbury | 11 |
88 |
-12.4% |
| Launceston | 11 |
109 |
-26.8% |
| Canberra | 10 |
652 |
-22.9% |
| Darwin | 9.94 |
154 |
-11.9% |
| Melbourne | 9.81 |
12,686 |
-26.0% |
| Albury-Wodonga | 7.66 |
89 |
-11.6% |
| Cairns | 7.25 |
215 |
-14.3% |
| Hobart | 5.69 |
188 |
-29.9% |
| Bendigo | 3.85 |
148 |
+23.8% |
| Mackay | 3.50 |
128 |
-17.2% |
| Rockhampton | 2.02 |
103 |
-6.8% |
Sorted by cost per click, dearest first. The number in each cell is the value and the bar behind it shows its size. Prices from A$10 up are rounded to the dollar; prices under A$10 show cents; a city with no Google price sits at the bottom. Amber bars are falls in change vs last year. A dark dot marks a capital city. Sunshine Coast is in bold with darker bars.
Competition in Queensland
Business counts and job ads are published by state, not by city, so this section shows Queensland figures for accountants; every Qld city in this set shares them.
Accountant job ads in Qld and accountant searches in Sunshine Coast, each against the year before.
Qld is 5th of 8 states and territories by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table.
Estimate: searches per business, Sunshine Coast: 0.4 a month (assumes even business density across Queensland; Sunshine Coast holds 7.5% of Queensland's population).
Four years of accountant searches in Sunshine Coast
Accountant searches in Sunshine Coast are down 20.8% year on year, averaging 377 a month. The last 12 months are in dark blue.
Total searches in each 12-month block.
Seasonality
July is the peak month, running 54.4% above the average month for accountant searches in Sunshine Coast; December is the quietest, 39.9% below.
Advertising rules
The advertising rules for this profession are set nationally; read the guidance from the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) before you write ad copy. For general advertising and consumer-law obligations, see the ACCC advertising and selling guide.
Questions people ask about accountant ads in Sunshine Coast
What does a Google Ads click cost for an accountant in Sunshine Coast?
A$16.22 a click is the typical (median) cost across all accountant search terms in Sunshine Coast (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12). That is 21st of 25 cities by median cost per click, mid-table.
How many people search for an accountant in Sunshine Coast each month?
377 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 20.8% year on year (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12).
Which accountant return pays back fastest on Google Ads in Sunshine Coast?
No margin or call-to-book rate is published for accountants here, so the payback figures need your own. Put in your own numbers in the planner to see which pays back.
How does Sunshine Coast compare with other Qld cities for accountant ads?
Sunshine Coast is 8th of 8 QLD cities by median cost per click, the dearest, and 3rd of 8 QLD cities by monthly searches, among the three most (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12).
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Google Ads search volume and cost per click from DataForSEO (pulled 2026-10-12); return values from published Australian sources where one exists; click-to-call and call-to-book rates from US industry benchmarks; business counts from the ABS. Full sources are listed at the bottom of this page.
Where this page sits
This is one of 541 pages: 22 services across 25 cities, all listed on the data hub. Every page uses the same keyword method, pull date and formulas, so figures compare directly.
Business counts and job ads are published by state, so the Qld figures on this page cover the whole state, not just Sunshine Coast; search volumes and click prices are pulled for Sunshine Coast itself.
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Method
Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service, tagged by intent (generic, near me, service and adjacent), targeted to each city using Google Ads city-level location codes, not a text match.
Headline monthly searches is the mean of the last 12 months of the core keyword set; the full 48-month series is shown on the chart.
Year-on-year change is total core-keyword searches in the last 12 months against the 12 months before that, for Sunshine Coast's own totals (the two most recent 12-month blocks in the demand table).
Headline cost per click is the volume-weighted median of each keyword's mean cost per click over the core set, called "typical cost per click (median)" throughout. The top-of-page bid is shown separately with its own label; the highest single-keyword cost per click is never the headline.
A keyword is flagged Volatile when its 24-month maximum is 2.5 times its minimum or more, or when a single month makes up 40% or more of its 12-month total. Volatile keywords stay in the totals.
Prices convert from Google Ads US dollars to Australian dollars at the US Federal Reserve's H.10 monthly average rate for September 2026 (1 AUD = 0.7115 USD). Ranks compare cost per click (cheapest to dearest) and monthly searches (most to fewest) across the 25 cities with data for this service and across the cities in the same state, and business density (fewest to most) across 8 states and territories; a trend is only stated when the change is 5% or more.
Segments: each niche is tagged by how its own numbers pay back. Quick cash clears its ad cost on the first return; Big tickets have the largest profit per return in the service; Client book pays back over 12 months of repeat visits. A niche can carry up to two tags, or none ("not proven on these numbers") if neither test clears the bar. A niche with no published price carries "No price source yet" and asks you to put in yours. General and near-me keywords sit in a shared pool.
Confidence: each niche carries a confidence level (High/Medium/Low/None) for its weakest input among search volume, click price, return value and margin. High means sourced for this exact city or an official AU figure. Medium means AU-sourced but national or industry-level. Low means a single weak source, an overseas figure or a US benchmark. None means no sourced figure; put in your own.
The modelled figure on this page is "searches per business" in the competition section, which assumes business density is even within a state, so a city's share of state businesses is approximated by its share of state population; it is the only number tagged "(estimate)". The segment cards, niche table and plan are a worked example using example return rates you can replace with your own. Every other figure is a direct read from the source cited in the data section.
Data and sources
Next refresh planned January 2027. Download the monthly data as CSV.
| Dataset | Licence |
|---|---|
DataForSEO Google Ads search volume DataForSEO, retrieved 2026-10-12 | DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API licence) |
ABS Counts of Australian Businesses (CABEE) Australian Bureau of Statistics | CC BY 4.0 |
ABS Estimated Resident Population Australian Bureau of Statistics | CC BY 4.0 |
JSA Internet Vacancy Index, ANZSCO 2211 Jobs and Skills Australia | CC BY 4.0 International |
US Federal Reserve H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Public domain (US government work) |
Search data pulled 2026-10-12 from Google Ads via DataForSEO. Prices in A$ at the US Federal Reserve September 2026 average (1 AUD = 0.7115 USD). Method, sources and CSV.
Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you'll pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.
About this data
Search volumes and click prices are licensed from DataForSEO (Google Ads data) and can't be re-pulled without a paid account. Business counts, job ads and exchange rates are open government data you can download yourself. Published by Sixty Steps, which runs ad accounts for local businesses.
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