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Dentist ads in Hamilton: NZ$6.13 a click

A Google Ads click for a dentist in Hamilton costs NZ$6.13 at the search-weighted average (1,473 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 5.5% on the 12 months before. Prices are in NZD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
NZ$6.13
Searches a month
1,473
Year on year
down 5.5%
Click cost per booked appointment
NZ$101

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$101 in clicks at NZ$6.13 a click.

In Hamilton, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at NZ$3.38. The highest click price on this page in Hamilton is general searches at NZ$8.59.

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$101 in clicks at NZ$6.13 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked appointment
General searchesNZ$8.59NZ$141
Near meNZ$5.76NZ$95
Specific jobsNZ$3.38NZ$55

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 Hamilton

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 Hamilton, at 36.5%.

In Hamilton, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at NZ$8.59 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“dentist”, “dental clinic”
Searches a month538, 36.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$8.59
In Hamilton, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

“dentist near me”
Searches a month520, 35.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$5.76

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 month414, 28.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$3.38
In Hamilton, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.
Plan

Plan a month of dentist ads in Hamilton

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
163.1
Calls or forms
17.4
Booked appointments
9.9
Click cost per booked appointment
NZ$101

NZ$1,000 at NZ$6.13 a click buys about 163.1 clicks a month.

If 10.67% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 57.1% of those calls, that is about 17.4 calls and 9.9 booked appointments, so each booked appointment costs about NZ$101 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every dentist keyword tracked in Hamilton

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 Hamilton are “dentist near me” (520 searches a month at NZ$5.76 a click), “dentist” (490 searches a month at NZ$8.82 a click), and “invisalign” (175 searches a month at NZ$3.47 a click).

In Hamilton, “teeth whitening” is the keyword furthest from the country median: NZ$2.36 a click, 60.7% below the NZ$6.01 median click price for dentist across this country's tracked cities.

In Hamilton, “cosmetic dentist” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 13 searches a month.

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

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
dentistGeneral searches490NZ$8.82
dental clinicGeneral searches48NZ$6.30
dentist near meNear me520NZ$5.76
emergency dentistUrgentnoneno price
invisalignSpecific jobs175NZ$3.47
teeth whiteningSpecific jobs173NZ$2.36
dental implantsSpecific jobs35NZ$5.68
kids dentistSpecific jobs18NZ$3.94
cosmetic dentistSpecific jobs13NZ$8.59
root canalSpecific jobsnoneno price
wisdom teeth removalSpecific jobsnoneno price
bulk billing dentistSpecific jobsnoneno price
Ranks and trend

How Hamilton compares in New Zealand

Over the 48 months tracked, dentists searches in Hamilton peaked in February 2025 at 1,890 and were lowest in December 2025 at 1,150. Hamilton's single latest tracked month is up 0.6% on the same month a year ago and up 9.9% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Hamilton, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "dental clinic", down 51.7%.

  • Hamilton is 4th of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, among the three highest.
  • Hamilton is 4th of 6 New Zealand cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Hamilton is the only city in the Waikato region in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Hamilton sits in Waikato, which is 2nd of 6 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 6.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Waikato).
  • Hamilton's 776.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 880.7 for this service.
  • Hamilton's median dentist click price of NZ$6.13 is 2.0% above the country median of NZ$6.01.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 5.5% on the 12 months before.
  • In Hamilton, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, January, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Dentist businesses in Hamilton

Stats NZ counts 120 businesses in this industry in Hamilton (February 2025), about 6.3 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 189,700 (Hamilton). 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 Hamilton

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

NZ$6.13 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted dentist search terms in Hamilton (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Hamilton is 4th of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, among the three highest.

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

1,473 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 5.5% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

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

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$101 in clicks at NZ$6.13 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton.

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