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Movers ads in Halifax: C$11.34 a click

A Google Ads click for a mover in Halifax costs C$11.34 at the search-weighted average (398 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 9.0% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$11.34
Searches a month
398
Year on year
down 9.0%
Click cost per booked move
C$335

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 move costs about C$335 in clicks at C$11.34 a click.

In Halifax, the lowest click price on this page is near me at C$5.30. The highest click price on this page in Halifax is specific jobs at C$21.38.

Cost per booked move

What a booked move 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 move costs about C$335 in clicks at C$11.34 a click.

Cost per booked move 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 move
General searchesC$13.09C$387
Near meC$5.30C$157
Specific jobsC$21.38C$632

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

By intent

Where the movers 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.

General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Halifax, at 58.8%.

In Halifax, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$21.38 a click.

General searches

“movers”, “moving company”
Searches a month233, 58.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$13.09

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“movers near me”
Searches a month102, 25.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$5.30
In Halifax, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“long distance movers”, “local movers”, “furniture movers”, “office movers”, “piano movers”, “packing services movers”
Searches a month61, 15.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$21.38
In Halifax, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“full service movers”, “storage movers”
Searches a month10
Click price, weighted avgC$4.86
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 movers ads in Halifax

Put in your own value per move 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
88.2
Calls or forms
7.1
Booked moves
3.0
Click cost per booked move
C$335

C$1,000 at C$11.34 a click buys about 88.2 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 7.1 calls and 3.0 booked moves, so each booked move costs about C$335 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every movers 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 movers keywords in Halifax are “moving company” (149 searches a month at C$12.13 a click), “movers near me” (102 searches a month at C$5.30 a click), and “movers” (84 searches a month at C$14.78 a click).

In Halifax, “movers near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$5.30 a click, 70.6% below the C$18.02 median click price for movers across this country's tracked cities.

In Halifax, “long distance movers” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 9 searches a month.

In Halifax, 5 of the 9 counted movers keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
moving companyGeneral searches149C$12.13
moversGeneral searches84C$14.78
movers near meNear me102C$5.30
office moversSpecific jobs20no price
local moversSpecific jobs12C$28.45
furniture moversSpecific jobs10no price
piano moversSpecific jobs10no price
long distance moversSpecific jobs9C$11.96
packing services moversSpecific jobsnoneno price
full service movers
Related, not counted
Related keywords8C$4.86
storage movers
Related, not counted
Related keywords2no price
Ranks and trend

How Halifax compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, movers searches in Halifax peaked in July 2024 at 850 and were lowest in April 2023 at 150. Halifax's single latest tracked month is down 41.3% on the same month a year ago and down 28.8% 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 "office movers", up 84.6%.

  • Halifax is 2nd of 13 Canada cities by click price, among the three lowest.
  • Halifax is 12th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Halifax is the only city in Nova Scotia in this set, so there is no same-province rank.
  • Halifax's 73.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 99.0 for this service.
  • Halifax's median movers click price of C$11.34 is 37.1% below the country median of C$18.02.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 9.0% on the 12 months before.
  • In Halifax, searches peak in July, about 36.1% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Movers businesses in Halifax

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for movers in Halifax at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes counts for Halifax only for broader industry groups, which mix movers with other businesses. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many movers 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

Movers click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 4th of 6 countries by median movers 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$2.4557.05
United KingdomUS$7.1377.625
New ZealandUS$8.5764.56
Canada
this page's country
US$12.9099.013
AustraliaUS$16.70156.425
United StatesUS$28.4390.450

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.

FAQ

Questions people ask about movers ads in Halifax

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

C$11.34 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted movers search terms in Halifax (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Halifax is 2nd of 13 Canada cities by click price, among the three lowest.

How many people search for a mover in Halifax each month?

398 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 9.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked move cost in clicks for movers 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 move costs about C$335 in clicks at C$11.34 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: StatCan publishes CMA/CSD-level business counts (table 33-10-1016-01) to 4-digit NAICS only (verified: max classificationCode length 4 across all 445 members). NAICS 484210 shares its 4-digit group 4842 with other 6-digit codes, so the 6-digit figure cannot be isolated at CMA geography without silently substituting the coarser group. 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 move 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

Related: Movers in Toronto, Movers in Vancouver, Movers in Calgary, Movers across Canada, All services in Halifax.

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