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Pest control ads in Tauranga: NZ$7.62 a click

A Google Ads click for a pest controller in Tauranga costs NZ$7.62 at the search-weighted average (83 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are level with the 12 months before. Prices are in NZD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
NZ$7.62
Searches a month
83
Year on year
0.0%
Click cost per booked treatment
NZ$225

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 treatment costs about NZ$225 in clicks at NZ$7.62 a click.

Cost per booked treatment

What a booked treatment 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 treatment costs about NZ$225 in clicks at NZ$7.62 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked treatment
General searchesNZ$5.23NZ$155
Near meNZ$14.01NZ$414

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

By intent

Where the pest control searches are in Tauranga

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 Tauranga, at 39.5%.

In Tauranga, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at NZ$14.01 a click.

General searches

“pest control”
Searches a month32, 39.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$5.23

Near me

“pest control near me”
Searches a month12, 14.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$14.01

Urgent

“termite treatment”, “emergency pest control”
Searches a month8, 9.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Specific jobs

“pest inspection”, “termite inspection”, “cockroach treatment”, “rodent control”, “spider control”, “ant treatment”, “pre-purchase pest inspection”
Searches a month29, 35.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Related keywords

Not counted
“fumigation”
Searches a month10
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
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 pest control ads in Tauranga

Put in your own value per treatment 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
131.2
Calls or forms
10.6
Booked treatments
4.4
Click cost per booked treatment
NZ$225

NZ$1,000 at NZ$7.62 a click buys about 131.2 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 10.6 calls and 4.4 booked treatments, so each booked treatment costs about NZ$225 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every pest control keyword tracked in Tauranga

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 pest control keywords in Tauranga are “pest control” (32 searches a month at NZ$5.23 a click), “pest control near me” (12 searches a month at NZ$14.01 a click), and “rodent control” (9 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Tauranga, “pest control near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: NZ$14.01 a click, 60.8% above the NZ$8.71 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.

In Tauranga, “pest inspection” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Tauranga, 2 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
pest controlGeneral searches32NZ$5.23
pest control near meNear me12NZ$14.01
termite treatmentUrgent8no price
emergency pest controlUrgentnoneno price
rodent controlSpecific jobs9no price
termite inspectionSpecific jobs8no price
spider controlSpecific jobs6no price
ant treatmentSpecific jobs3no price
cockroach treatmentSpecific jobs3no price
pest inspectionSpecific jobs0no price
pre-purchase pest inspectionSpecific jobsnoneno price
fumigation
Related, not counted
Related keywords10no price
Ranks and trend

How Tauranga compares in New Zealand

Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in Tauranga peaked in December 2022 at 330 and were lowest in August 2023 at 40. Tauranga's single latest tracked month is up 16.7% on the same month a year ago and level with the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Tauranga, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "termite treatment", up 100.0%.

  • Tauranga is 3rd of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, among the three lowest.
  • Tauranga is 5th of 6 New Zealand cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Tauranga is the only city in the Bay of Plenty region in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Tauranga sits in Bay of Plenty, which is 5th of 6 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three highest (an average of 0.9 businesses per 10,000 people across Bay of Plenty).
  • Tauranga's 51.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 74.5 for this service.
  • Tauranga's median pest control click price of NZ$7.62 is 12.5% below the country median of NZ$8.71.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are level with the 12 months before.
  • In Tauranga, searches peak in December, about 55.8% above the monthly average, and are lowest in August.
Businesses

Pest control businesses in Tauranga

Stats NZ counts 15 businesses in this industry in Tauranga (February 2025), about 0.9 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 161,300 (Tauranga). 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

Pest control click prices in 6 countries

New Zealand is 2nd of 6 countries by median pest control 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$3.5988.55
New Zealand
this page's country
US$5.0274.56
United KingdomUS$5.0957.625
CanadaUS$5.6457.613
AustraliaUS$11.76168.125
United StatesUS$33.0554.450

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 pest control ads in Tauranga

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a pest controller in Tauranga?

NZ$7.62 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted pest control search terms in Tauranga (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Tauranga is 3rd of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, among the three lowest.

How many people search for a pest controller in Tauranga each month?

83 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, level with the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked treatment cost in clicks for pest controllers in Tauranga?

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 treatment costs about NZ$225 in clicks at NZ$7.62 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 Tauranga 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 treatment 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), Home & Home Improvement
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: Pest control in Auckland, Pest control in Christchurch, Pest control in Wellington, Pest control across New Zealand, All services in Tauranga.

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