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General Contractor ads in Halifax: C$12.15 a click

A Google Ads click for a general contractor in Halifax costs C$12.15 at the search-weighted average (171 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 22.9% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$12.15
Searches a month
171
Year on year
down 22.9%
Click cost per booked job
C$359

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about C$359 in clicks at C$12.15 a click.

In Halifax, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at C$8.58. The highest click price on this page in Halifax is general searches at C$17.23.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about C$359 in clicks at C$12.15 a click.

Cost per booked job in Halifax is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Halifax figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesC$17.23C$510
Near meC$12.46C$369
Specific jobsC$8.58C$254

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the general contractor searches are in Halifax

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Halifax, at 57.6%.

In Halifax, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$17.23 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“general contractor”, “home renovator”
Searches a month40, 23.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$17.23
In Halifax, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

“general contractors near me”
Searches a month33, 19.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$12.46

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“home renovations”, “kitchen renovation”, “bathroom renovation”, “home additions”, “basement renovation”, “custom home builder”, “home extensions”, “whole home renovation”
Searches a month99, 57.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$8.58
In Halifax, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“new home builder”
Searches a month11
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of general contractor ads in Halifax

Put in your own value per job and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
82.3
Calls or forms
6.6
Booked jobs
2.8
Click cost per booked job
C$359

C$1,000 at C$12.15 a click buys about 82.3 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 6.6 calls and 2.8 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about C$359 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every general contractor keyword tracked in Halifax

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched general contractor keywords in Halifax are “general contractors near me” (33 searches a month at C$12.46 a click), “bathroom renovation” (28 searches a month at C$14.11 a click), and “general contractor” (28 searches a month at C$21.28 a click).

In Halifax, “kitchen renovation” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$1.33 a click, 89.8% below the C$13.01 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In Halifax, “whole home renovation” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 1 search a month.

In Halifax, 6 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
general contractorGeneral searches28C$21.28
home renovatorGeneral searches12C$7.78
general contractors near meNear me33C$12.46
bathroom renovationSpecific jobs28C$14.11
kitchen renovationSpecific jobs20C$1.33
basement renovationSpecific jobs13no price
home renovationsSpecific jobs12C$7.78
custom home builderSpecific jobs11no price
home additionsSpecific jobs7no price
home extensionsSpecific jobs7no price
whole home renovationSpecific jobs1no price
new home builder
Related, not counted
Related keywords11no price
Ranks and trend

How Halifax compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in Halifax peaked in January 2025 at 520 and were lowest in December 2025 at 90. Halifax's single latest tracked month is down 27.8% on the same month a year ago and down 23.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Halifax, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "home extensions", up 300.0%.

  • Halifax is 6th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Halifax is 13th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • Halifax is the only city in Nova Scotia in this set, so there is no same-province rank.
  • Halifax's 31.4 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 83.8 for this service.
  • Halifax's median general contractor click price of C$12.15 is 6.6% below the country median of C$13.01.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 22.9% on the 12 months before.
  • In Halifax, searches peak in January, about 36.5% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

General contractor businesses in Halifax

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for general contractors in Halifax at this level, so this page shows none. No published industry code matches general contractors at this geography. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many general contractors work here.

Population: 544,834 (Halifax (CMA), Nova Scotia). Source: Statistics Canada table 17-10-0148-01, population estimates by CMA/CA, July 1 vintage.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

General contractor click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 5th of 6 countries by median general contractor click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$2.7685.85
United KingdomUS$4.3853.225
AustraliaUS$6.72155.425
New ZealandUS$7.2191.36
Canada
this page's country
US$9.3183.813
United StatesUS$18.5075.950

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules

Rules for general contractors in Canada

Licensing is set by each province or territory. General-contractor licensing or registration varies by province; several provinces have no licence requirement at all.

FAQ

Questions people ask about general contractor ads in Halifax

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a general contractor in Halifax?

C$12.15 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted general contractor search terms in Halifax (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Halifax is 6th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a general contractor in Halifax each month?

171 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 22.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for general contractors in Halifax?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about C$359 in clicks at C$12.15 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: Statistics Canada NAICS Canada 2022 has no code 236118; the sole 6-digit child of 2361 Residential building construction is 236110. services_v5.json's industry_code for CA 'builder' (236118 Residential Remodelers) is a US NAICS 2022 code, not a Canadian one. Click prices convert from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 2026-09 average. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for Canada, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Halifax with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

DataForSEO reports click prices in US$; they convert to CAD at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 CAD = 0.7157 US$).

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled 13 October 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO, retrieved 13 October 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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