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Dentist ads in Dunedin: NZ$5.48 a click

A Google Ads click for a dentist in Dunedin costs NZ$5.48 at the search-weighted average (757 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 12.9% on the 12 months before. Prices are in NZD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
NZ$5.48
Searches a month
757
Year on year
down 12.9%
Click cost per booked appointment
NZ$90

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$90 in clicks at NZ$5.48 a click.

In Dunedin, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at NZ$2.41. The highest click price on this page in Dunedin is general searches at NZ$7.51.

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$90 in clicks at NZ$5.48 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked appointment
General searchesNZ$7.51NZ$123
Near meNZ$4.50NZ$74
Specific jobsNZ$2.41NZ$40

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 Dunedin

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 Dunedin, at 48.9%.

In Dunedin, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at NZ$7.51 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“dentist”, “dental clinic”
Searches a month370, 48.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$7.51
In Dunedin, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

“dentist near me”
Searches a month180, 23.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$4.50

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 month206, 27.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$2.41
In Dunedin, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.
Plan

Plan a month of dentist ads in Dunedin

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
182.5
Calls or forms
19.5
Booked appointments
11.1
Click cost per booked appointment
NZ$90

NZ$1,000 at NZ$5.48 a click buys about 182.5 clicks a month.

If 10.67% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 57.1% of those calls, that is about 19.5 calls and 11.1 booked appointments, so each booked appointment costs about NZ$90 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every dentist keyword tracked in Dunedin

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 Dunedin are “dentist” (340 searches a month at NZ$7.50 a click), “dentist near me” (180 searches a month at NZ$4.50 a click), and “teeth whitening” (83 searches a month at NZ$2.17 a click).

In Dunedin, “dental implants” is the keyword furthest from the country median: NZ$0.36 a click, 94.0% below the NZ$6.01 median click price for dentist across this country's tracked cities.

In Dunedin, “kids dentist” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In Dunedin, 6 of the 12 counted dentist keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
dentistGeneral searches340NZ$7.50
dental clinicGeneral searches30NZ$7.57
dentist near meNear me180NZ$4.50
emergency dentistUrgentnoneno price
teeth whiteningSpecific jobs83NZ$2.17
invisalignSpecific jobs80NZ$3.25
dental implantsSpecific jobs23NZ$0.36
cosmetic dentistSpecific jobs12no price
kids dentistSpecific jobs8no price
root canalSpecific jobsnoneno price
wisdom teeth removalSpecific jobsnoneno price
bulk billing dentistSpecific jobsnoneno price
Ranks and trend

How Dunedin compares in New Zealand

Over the 48 months tracked, dentists searches in Dunedin peaked in August 2025 at 1,520 and were lowest in December 2025 at 430. Dunedin's single latest tracked month is down 28.9% on the same month a year ago and up 12.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Dunedin, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "dental clinic", down 35.7%.

  • Dunedin is 2nd of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, among the three lowest.
  • Dunedin is 6th of 6 New Zealand cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • Dunedin is the only city in the Otago region in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Dunedin sits in Otago, which is 5th of 6 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three highest (an average of 8.7 businesses per 10,000 people across Otago).
  • Dunedin's 574.4 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 880.7 for this service.
  • Dunedin's median dentist click price of NZ$5.48 is 8.8% below the country median of NZ$6.01.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 12.9% on the 12 months before.
  • In Dunedin, searches peak in August, about 40.1% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Dentist businesses in Dunedin

Stats NZ counts 114 businesses in this industry in Dunedin (February 2025), about 8.7 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 131,800 (Dunedin). 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 Dunedin

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

NZ$5.48 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted dentist search terms in Dunedin (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Dunedin is 2nd of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, among the three lowest.

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

757 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 12.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

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

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$90 in clicks at NZ$5.48 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 Dunedin 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 Auckland, Dentist in Christchurch, Dentist in Wellington, Dentist across New Zealand, All services in Dunedin.

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