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Carpet cleaner ads in Canberra, by opportunity

A Google Ads click for a carpet cleaner in Canberra costs A$6.61 at the median (2,196 searches a month, pulled October 2026, Google Ads via DataForSEO). No margin is published for carpet cleaners 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.

The 10-second read
Worked example: clean values are from published sources; call and booking rates are US averages. Put in your own numbers below.

No margin is published for carpet cleaners 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 clean" 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.

Fresh
Pulled 2026-10-12. Next refresh January 2027.
Prices complete
12 of 12 keywords have a Google price.
Volumes steadier
6 of 12 keywords flagged volatile.
Keywords tracked
12 keywords tracked; 0 have no Google price.
The niches

Where the money is, by niche

No niche clears a payback test on these numbers, so every niche is shown together. Figures use Canberra click prices and the clean rates in the plan below; change the rates there and these update.

Every niche Put in your rates
No niche clears the payback tests yet
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed), Whole-house steam clean (4-bed), Per-room clean, End-of-lease carpet clean, Rug cleaning, Upholstery cleaning, Stain/odour treatment
Searches a month2,059, 94% of all core keywords
Figures for Whole-house steam clean (3-bed), the strongest here
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed) A$5.78 (strongest) · Whole-house steam clean (4-bed) A$5.78 · Per-room clean A$6.61 · End-of-lease carpet clean A$20.30 · Rug cleaning A$6.04 · Upholstery cleaning A$6.61 · Stain/odour treatment A$8.89
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed): Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Whole-house steam clean (4-bed): Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Per-room clean: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
End-of-lease carpet clean: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Rug cleaning: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Upholstery cleaning: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Stain/odour treatment: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Cost per click · High confidenceA$5.78
Typical cleanA$220
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Fits if you can put in your own clean value, call rate and margin.
Needs your own numbers in the plan below.
Plan Every niche
Shared pool
General and near me: 138 searches a month (6% of all core keywords), A$7.11 a click (A$6.61 is the typical cost per click across all carpet cleaner keywords)
Most of these searches don't say what the clean is, so your ad copy and landing page decide which segment they land in. 1.6% of all carpet cleaner searches here say 'near me', so your Google Business Profile carries as much weight as the ad.
Plan a segment

Every niche: Whole-house steam clean (3-bed)

No niche clears the payback tests yet. Whole-house steam clean (3-bed) covers 'carpet cleaning' and 'steam carpet cleaning': 1,116 searches a month at A$5.78 a click.

Niche to plan
Clean rates for Whole-house steam clean (3-bed)

What A$1,000 a month buys in Every niche (worked example)

0.0 clicks0.0 calls0.0 cleans

Enter a budget and the clean rates to see what this segment buys.

Keywords in Every niche

carpet cleaner892 a month, A$6.61
Per-room clean. Close to the typical click here.
carpet cleaning892 a month, A$6.61
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed). Close to the typical click here.
steam carpet cleaning224 a month, A$2.47
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed). Below the typical click here.
rug cleaning27 a month, A$7.34
Rug cleaning. Close to the typical click here.
upholstery cleaning15 a month, A$14.79
Upholstery cleaning. Above the typical click here.
carpet stain removal12 a month, A$20.22
Stain/odour treatment. Above the typical click here.
end of lease carpet cleaning12 a month, A$14.62
End-of-lease carpet clean. Above the typical click here.

The shared pool keywords, 'carpet cleaner near me', 'carpet cleaning near me', 'carpet cleaning quote', 'carpet cleaning service' and 'commercial carpet cleaning', can feed any segment. See the full keyword table.

Compare

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.

Sort
Per-room cleanNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month1,784
Cost per clickA$6.61
Typical cleanA$45
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed)Not proven on these numbers
Searches a month1,116
Cost per clickA$5.78
Typical cleanA$220
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Whole-house steam clean (4-bed)Not proven on these numbers
Searches a month1,116
Cost per clickA$5.78
Typical cleanA$300
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Rug cleaningNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month27
Cost per clickA$6.04
Typical cleanA$70
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Upholstery cleaningNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month15, incl. related keyword "upholstery cleaning" (15/mo)
Cost per clickA$6.61
Typical cleanA$130
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
End-of-lease carpet cleanNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month12
Cost per clickA$20.30
Typical cleanA$210
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Stain/odour treatmentNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month12
Cost per clickA$8.89
Typical cleanA$35
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
General and near meShared pool (no single clean value)
Searches a month1,922
Cost per clickA$7.11
Typical cleanput in yours
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per cleanput in yours
Profit on the cleanput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Google data+
Searches and click prices, Canberra, pulled 2026-10-12.
Published price guides+
Typical clean sizes from published Australian sources: whole-house steam clean (3-bed), whole-house steam clean (4-bed), per-room clean, end-of-lease carpet clean, rug cleaning, upholstery cleaning and stain/odour treatment (retrieved October 2026). No price source yet for general and near me: put in yours.
US benchmarks+
8.05% of carpet cleaner clicks convert (US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026); 42% of calls book (US benchmark, ServiceTitan). No Australian equivalent published.
Assumptions+
NicheClean value (default)Clicks that callCalls that bookMargin per extra cleanRepeatConfidence
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed)A$2208.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Whole-house steam clean (4-bed)A$3008.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Per-room cleanA$458.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
End-of-lease carpet cleanA$2108.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Rug cleaningA$708.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Upholstery cleaningA$1308.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Stain/odour treatmentA$358.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
General and near meput in yours8.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Clicks to a clean = clicks that call x calls that book. Every figure above is editable in the plan; repeat cleans per customer are left blank, put in yours.
Keywords

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.

Type
12 of 12 keywords, 2,212 searches a month
Sort
carpet cleanerNot proven on these numbers
Per-room clean. Close to the typical click here.
Searches a month892
Cost per click (A$)A$6.61
Cost per click (US$)US$4.70
Competition index100
TypeGeneric
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$4.68 to A$15.67
carpet cleaningNot proven on these numbers
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed). Close to the typical click here.
Searches a month892
Cost per click (A$)A$6.61
Cost per click (US$)US$4.70
Competition index100
TypeGeneric
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$4.68 to A$15.67
steam carpet cleaningNot proven on these numbers
Whole-house steam clean (3-bed). Below the typical click here.
Searches a month224
Cost per click (A$)A$2.47
Cost per click (US$)US$1.76
Competition index100
TypeService
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$3.02 to A$12.78
carpet cleaning serviceShared pool
General and near me. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month74
Cost per click (A$)A$13.13
Cost per click (US$)US$9.34
Competition index59
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$4.86 to A$24.03
rug cleaningNot proven on these numbers
Rug cleaning. Close to the typical click here.
Searches a month27
Cost per click (A$)A$7.34
Cost per click (US$)US$5.22
Competition index73
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$2.83 to A$9.26
carpet cleaner near meShared pool
General and near me. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month18
Cost per click (A$)A$9.40
Cost per click (US$)US$6.69
Competition index92
TypeNear me
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$11.95 to A$21.28
carpet cleaning near meShared pool
General and near me. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month18
Cost per click (A$)A$9.40
Cost per click (US$)US$6.69
Competition index92
TypeNear me
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$11.95 to A$21.28
commercial carpet cleaningShared pool
General and near me. Below the typical click here.
Searches a month18
Cost per click (A$)A$1.50
Cost per click (US$)US$1.07
Competition index100
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highno data
upholstery cleaningNot proven on these numbers
Upholstery cleaning. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month15
Cost per click (A$)A$14.79
Cost per click (US$)US$10.52
Competition indexno data
TypeAdjacent
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highno data
carpet stain removalNot proven on these numbers
Stain/odour treatment. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month12
Cost per click (A$)A$20.22
Cost per click (US$)US$14.39
Competition index61
TypeService
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$3.04 to A$14.74
end of lease carpet cleaningNot proven on these numbers
End-of-lease carpet clean. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month12
Cost per click (A$)A$14.62
Cost per click (US$)US$10.40
Competition index96
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$7.43 to A$33.18
carpet cleaning quoteShared pool
General and near me. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month10
Cost per click (A$)A$18.62
Cost per click (US$)US$13.25
Competition index100
TypeService
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highno data
Market backdrop

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.

Market size
Large
2,196 searches a month, 7th of 25 cities by monthly searches, mid-table
Momentum
Falling
-9.6% vs prior 12 months; job ads +26.4%
Click cost
Dear
A$6.61 typical, 23rd of 25 cities by median cost per click, among the three dearest
Rivals per head
Crowded
31.12 carpet cleaner businesses per 10,000 people in Australian Capital Territory; 6th of 8 states and territories by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three most crowded
Searches per business
Thin
1.5 a month per business (estimate).
Where Canberra sits

Carpet cleaner ads across the 25 cities

Perth has the dearest clicks (A$6.90) and Darwin the cheapest (A$1.24). Canberra is 23rd of 25 cities by median cost per click, among the three dearest, and 7th of 25 cities by monthly searches, mid-table.

City Cost per click (A$, median) Searches a month Change vs last year
Perth
6.90
10,696
-18.9%
Gold Coast
6.75
3,774
-17.7%
Canberra
6.61
2,196
-9.6%
Geelong
6.45
872
-17.2%
Melbourne
6.10
26,315
-14.7%
Sunshine Coast
5.86
954
-12.5%
Brisbane
5.85
15,175
-20.4%
Sydney
5.71
24,137
-18.3%
Central Coast
4.03
1,529
-8.4%
Adelaide
3.84
6,772
-10.2%
Wollongong
3.64
1,162
+2.4%
Toowoomba
3.42
810
-11.2%
Newcastle
3.18
1,379
-13.7%
Bendigo
2.87
412
-10.3%
Mackay
2.52
383
-8.7%
Launceston
2.38
546
-5.3%
Hobart
2.32
810
-18.0%
Ballarat
2.09
647
-6.6%
Wagga Wagga
2.09
288
-3.6%
Rockhampton
2.05
331
-6.8%
Townsville
2.02
1,015
+0.4%
Cairns
1.81
470
-2.3%
Albury-Wodonga
1.56
303
-2.7%
Bunbury
1.48
292
-15.0%
Darwin
1.24
231
-11.5%

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. Canberra is in bold with darker bars.

Competition

Competition in Australian Capital Territory

Business counts and job ads are published by state, not by city, so this section shows Australian Capital Territory figures for carpet cleaners; every ACT city in this set shares them.

The business count uses ANZSIC 7311 Building and Other Industrial Cleaning Services and job ads use ANZSCO 8116 Other Cleaners, the closest published codes; they cover more businesses than carpet cleaners alone.

Businesses, June 2025
1,508
New entries, FY2025
410
Exits, FY2025
273
Opposite directions, year on year
+26.4% job ads
-9.6% searches

Carpet cleaner job ads in ACT and carpet cleaner searches in Canberra, each against the year before.

Carpet cleaner businesses per 10,000 people
Tas
21.52
Qld
28.05
WA
28.48
NT
29.75
NSW
30.35
ACT
31.12
SA
33.87
Vic
40.24

ACT is 6th of 8 states and territories by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three most crowded.

Estimate: searches per business, Canberra: 1.5 a month (assumes even business density across Australian Capital Territory; Canberra holds 100.0% of Australian Capital Territory's population).

Demand

Four years of carpet cleaner searches in Canberra

Carpet cleaner searches in Canberra are down 9.6% year on year, averaging 2,196 a month. The last 12 months are in dark blue.

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023
23,900
Sep 2023 to Aug 2024
27,510
Sep 2024 to Aug 2025
29,150
Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
26,350

Total searches in each 12-month block.

Seasons

Seasonality

J F M A M J J A S O N D

Searches are fairly even through the year; March is the busiest month, 13.8% above the average month.

Rules

Advertising rules

Sixty Steps found no national advertising code specific to carpet cleaners; check any licence-display rule with your own state regulator before relying on this page. For general advertising and consumer-law obligations, see the ACCC advertising and selling guide.

FAQ

Questions people ask about carpet cleaner ads in Canberra

What does a Google Ads click cost for a carpet cleaner in Canberra?

A$6.61 a click is the typical (median) cost across all carpet cleaner search terms in Canberra (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12). That is 23rd of 25 cities by median cost per click, among the three dearest.

How many people search for a carpet cleaner in Canberra each month?

2,196 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 9.6% year on year (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12).

Which carpet cleaner clean pays back fastest on Google Ads in Canberra?

No margin is published for carpet cleaners here, so the payback figures need your own. Put in your own numbers in the planner to see which pays back.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Google Ads search volume and cost per click from DataForSEO (pulled 2026-10-12); clean 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.

The wider set

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.

Service
Home services
Carpet cleaner in Canberra, this page
Other services in Canberra
Place
Australia, 25 cities
Australian Capital Territory, 1 city in this set
Carpet cleaner in the other 24 cities

Business counts and job ads are published by state, so the ACT figures on this page cover the whole state, not just Canberra; search volumes and click prices are pulled for Canberra 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 Canberra'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 clean; Big tickets have the largest profit per clean 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, clean 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 clean 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.

DatasetLicence
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 8116
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.

Related: Carpet cleaner in Melbourne, Carpet cleaner in Sydney, Carpet cleaner in Brisbane, Carpet cleaner across Australia.

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