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Dentist ads in Auckland: NZ$6.43 a click

A Google Ads click for a dentist in Auckland costs NZ$6.43 at the search-weighted average (16,052 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 11.1% on the 12 months before. Prices are in NZD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
NZ$6.43
Searches a month
16,052
Year on year
down 11.1%
Click cost per booked appointment
NZ$106

At a lead rate of 10.67% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Dentists & Dental Services) and a booking rate of 57.1% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Liine Dentistry Marketing Benchmark Report 2024), a booked appointment costs about NZ$106 in clicks at NZ$6.43 a click.

In Auckland, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at NZ$5.44. The highest click price on this page in Auckland is general searches at NZ$7.27.

Cost per booked appointment

What a booked appointment costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 10.67% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Dentists & Dental Services) and a booking rate of 57.1% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Liine Dentistry Marketing Benchmark Report 2024), a booked appointment costs about NZ$106 in clicks at NZ$6.43 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked appointment
General searchesNZ$7.27NZ$119
Near meNZ$6.32NZ$104
Specific jobsNZ$5.44NZ$89

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

By intent

Where the dentist searches are in Auckland

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

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Auckland, at 40.6%.

In Auckland, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at NZ$7.27 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“dentist”, “dental clinic”
Searches a month5,537, 34.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$7.27
In Auckland, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

“dentist near me”
Searches a month6,525, 40.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$6.32

Urgent

“emergency dentist”
Searches a month0, 0.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“teeth whitening”, “cosmetic dentist”, “dental implants”, “invisalign”, “root canal”, “wisdom teeth removal”, “kids dentist”, “bulk billing dentist”
Searches a month3,990, 24.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$5.44
In Auckland, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.
Plan

Plan a month of dentist ads in Auckland

Put in your own value per appointment 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
155.5
Calls or forms
16.6
Booked appointments
9.5
Click cost per booked appointment
NZ$106

NZ$1,000 at NZ$6.43 a click buys about 155.5 clicks a month.

If 10.67% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 57.1% of those calls, that is about 16.6 calls and 9.5 booked appointments, so each booked appointment costs about NZ$106 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every dentist keyword tracked in Auckland

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 dentist keywords in Auckland are “dentist near me” (6,525 searches a month at NZ$6.32 a click), “dentist” (4,808 searches a month at NZ$7.64 a click), and “invisalign” (1,500 searches a month at NZ$5.07 a click).

In Auckland, “dental implants” is the keyword furthest from the country median: NZ$12.45 a click, 107.2% above the NZ$6.01 median click price for dentist across this country's tracked cities.

In Auckland, “bulk billing dentist” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 3 searches a month.

In Auckland, 8 of the 12 counted dentist keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
dentistGeneral searches4,808NZ$7.64
dental clinicGeneral searches729NZ$4.86
dentist near meNear me6,525NZ$6.32
emergency dentistUrgentnoneno price
invisalignSpecific jobs1,500NZ$5.07
teeth whiteningSpecific jobs1,500NZ$3.72
cosmetic dentistSpecific jobs520NZ$6.75
dental implantsSpecific jobs346NZ$12.45
kids dentistSpecific jobs121NZ$5.90
bulk billing dentistSpecific jobs3no price
root canalSpecific jobsnoneno price
wisdom teeth removalSpecific jobsnoneno price
Ranks and trend

How Auckland compares in New Zealand

Over the 48 months tracked, dentists searches in Auckland peaked in March 2025 at 22,320 and were lowest in December 2025 at 13,060. Auckland's single latest tracked month is down 3.5% on the same month a year ago and up 2.8% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Auckland, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "bulk billing dentist", up 300.0%.

  • Auckland is 6th of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, the highest.
  • Auckland is 1st of 6 New Zealand cities by monthly searches, the highest.
  • Auckland is the only city in the Auckland region in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Auckland sits in Auckland, which is 1st of 6 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, the lowest (an average of 5.6 businesses per 10,000 people across Auckland).
  • Auckland's 893.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 880.7 for this service.
  • Auckland's median dentist click price of NZ$6.43 is 7.0% above the country median of NZ$6.01.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 11.1% on the 12 months before.
  • In Auckland, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, January, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Dentist businesses in Auckland

Stats NZ counts 1,014 businesses in this industry in Auckland (February 2025), about 5.6 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: geographic units, randomly rounded to base 3.

Population: 1,797,300 (Auckland). Source: Stats NZ subnational population estimates at 30 June, by urban area.

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

6 countries

Dentist click prices in 6 countries

New Zealand is 2nd of 6 countries by median dentist 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$2.351,315.75
New Zealand
this page's country
US$3.46880.76
United KingdomUS$6.74973.525
AustraliaUS$7.46969.725
CanadaUS$13.93958.913
United StatesUS$14.33524.650

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 dentists in New Zealand

Regulator or register: Dental Council (New Zealand).

FAQ

Questions people ask about dentist ads in Auckland

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a dentist in Auckland?

NZ$6.43 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted dentist search terms in Auckland (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Auckland is 6th of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, the highest.

How many people search for a dentist in Auckland each month?

16,052 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 11.1% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked appointment cost in clicks for dentists in Auckland?

At a lead rate of 10.67% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Dentists & Dental Services) and a booking rate of 57.10% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Liine Dentistry Marketing Benchmark Report 2024), a booked appointment costs about NZ$106 in clicks at NZ$6.43 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: Stats NZ: Business Demography Statistics: Enterprises by industry 2025 -- via Figure.NZ chart mirror. 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 New Zealand, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Auckland 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 appointment 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$; they convert to NZD at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 NZD = 0.5760 US$).

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), Dentists & Dental Services
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, February 2025
CC BY 4.0, Stats NZ
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

Related: Dentist in Christchurch, Dentist in Wellington, Dentist in Hamilton, Dentist across New Zealand, All services in Auckland.

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