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Carpet cleaner ads in Southampton: £1.67 a click

A Google Ads click for a carpet cleaner in Southampton costs £1.67 at the search-weighted average (731 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are up 67.0% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
£1.67
Searches a month
731
Year on year
up 67.0%
Click cost per booked clean
£49

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 clean costs about £49 in clicks at £1.67 a click.

In Southampton, the lowest click price on this page is near me at £1.11. The highest click price on this page in Southampton is specific jobs at £3.15.

Cost per booked clean

What a booked clean 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 clean costs about £49 in clicks at £1.67 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked clean
General searches£1.57£46
Near me£1.11£33
Specific jobs£3.15£93

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

By intent

Where the carpet cleaner searches are in Southampton

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 Southampton, at 88.6%.

In Southampton, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £3.15 a click.

General searches

“carpet cleaner”, “carpet cleaning”
Searches a month646, 88.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.57

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“carpet cleaner near me”, “carpet cleaning near me”
Searches a month24, 3.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.11
In Southampton, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“steam carpet cleaning”, “carpet cleaning service”, “rug cleaning”, “carpet stain removal”, “end of lease carpet cleaning”, “commercial carpet cleaning”, “carpet cleaning quote”
Searches a month59, 8.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.15
In Southampton, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“upholstery cleaning”
Searches a month9
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 carpet cleaner ads in Southampton

Put in your own value per clean 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
598.8
Calls or forms
48.2
Booked cleans
20.2
Click cost per booked clean
£49

£1,000 at £1.67 a click buys about 598.8 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 48.2 calls and 20.2 booked cleans, so each booked clean costs about £49 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every carpet cleaner keyword tracked in Southampton

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 carpet cleaner keywords in Southampton are “carpet cleaner” (323 searches a month at £1.57 a click), “carpet cleaning” (323 searches a month at £1.57 a click), and “steam carpet cleaning” (23 searches a month at £1.16 a click).

In Southampton, “carpet cleaning quote” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £7.36 a click, 441.2% above the £1.36 median click price for carpet cleaner across this country's tracked cities.

In Southampton, “carpet cleaning quote” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 3 searches a month.

In Southampton, 9 of the 11 counted carpet cleaner keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
carpet cleanerGeneral searches323£1.57
carpet cleaningGeneral searches323£1.57
carpet cleaner near meNear me12£1.11
carpet cleaning near meNear me12£1.11
steam carpet cleaningSpecific jobs23£1.16
carpet cleaning serviceSpecific jobs10£4.57
rug cleaningSpecific jobs9£3.57
commercial carpet cleaningSpecific jobs8£5.08
carpet stain removalSpecific jobs6no price
carpet cleaning quoteSpecific jobs3£7.36
end of lease carpet cleaningSpecific jobsnoneno price
upholstery cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords9no price
Ranks and trend

How Southampton compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, carpet cleaners searches in Southampton peaked in August 2026 at 1,580 and were lowest in January 2026 at 340. Southampton's single latest tracked month is up 285.4% on the same month a year ago and up 167.8% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Southampton, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "steam carpet cleaning", up 86.7%.

  • Southampton is 20th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Southampton is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Southampton is the only city in Hampshire in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Southampton sits in Hampshire, which is 10th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 5.2 businesses per 10,000 people across Hampshire).
  • Southampton's 282.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 341.4 for this service.
  • Southampton's median carpet cleaner click price of £1.67 is 22.8% above the country median of £1.36.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 67.0% on the 12 months before.
  • In Southampton, searches peak in August, about 23.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in February.
Businesses

Carpet cleaner businesses in Southampton

The Office for National Statistics counts 135 businesses in this industry in Southampton (2026), about 5.2 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: local units, VAT or PAYE registered, rounded to 5.

Population: 259,230 (Southampton). Source: ONS mid-year population estimates via Nomis, dataset NM_2002_1, 2025.

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

6 countries

Carpet cleaner click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 3rd of 6 countries by median carpet cleaner 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$0.74403.25
New ZealandUS$1.63543.86
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$1.82341.425
AustraliaUS$2.26446.825
CanadaUS$2.82166.713
United StatesUS$7.5899.950

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 carpet cleaner ads in Southampton

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a carpet cleaner in Southampton?

£1.67 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted carpet cleaner search terms in Southampton (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Southampton is 20th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

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

731 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, up 67.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked clean cost in clicks for carpet cleaners in Southampton?

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 clean costs about £49 in clicks at £1.67 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: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). 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 United Kingdom, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Southampton 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 clean 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$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).

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, 2026
Open Government Licence v3.0
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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