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House cleaning ads in Edinburgh: £4.01 a click

A Google Ads click for a house cleaner in Edinburgh costs £4.01 at the search-weighted average (223 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 56.6% 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
£4.01
Searches a month
223
Year on year
down 56.6%
Click cost per booked clean
£119

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 £119 in clicks at £4.01 a click.

In Edinburgh, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at £1.76. The highest click price on this page in Edinburgh is general searches at £5.53.

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 £119 in clicks at £4.01 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked clean
General searches£5.53£164
Near me£2.89£85
Specific jobs£1.76£52

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

By intent

Where the house cleaning searches are in Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh, at 44.6%.

In Edinburgh, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £5.53 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“house cleaning”, “cleaning services”
Searches a month93, 41.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£5.53
In Edinburgh, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

“house cleaning near me”, “cleaning services near me”
Searches a month100, 44.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.89

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“end of lease cleaning”, “bond cleaning”, “deep cleaning service”, “regular house cleaning”, “spring cleaning service”
Searches a month31, 13.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.76
In Edinburgh, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“office cleaning”, “carpet cleaning”
Searches a month807
Click price, weighted avg£1.31
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 house cleaning ads in Edinburgh

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
249.4
Calls or forms
20.1
Booked cleans
8.4
Click cost per booked clean
£119

£1,000 at £4.01 a click buys about 249.4 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 20.1 calls and 8.4 booked cleans, so each booked clean costs about £119 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every house cleaning keyword tracked in Edinburgh

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 house cleaning keywords in Edinburgh are “cleaning services near me” (63 searches a month at £4.11 a click), “cleaning services” (61 searches a month at £5.59 a click), and “house cleaning near me” (37 searches a month at £0.82 a click).

In Edinburgh, “cleaning services” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £5.59 a click, 124.5% above the £2.49 median click price for house cleaning across this country's tracked cities.

In Edinburgh, “bond cleaning” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Edinburgh, 6 of the 9 counted house cleaning keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
cleaning servicesGeneral searches61£5.59
house cleaningGeneral searches32£5.42
cleaning services near meNear me63£4.11
house cleaning near meNear me37£0.82
deep cleaning serviceSpecific jobs11£1.15
end of lease cleaningSpecific jobs8no price
spring cleaning serviceSpecific jobs8no price
bond cleaningSpecific jobs2no price
regular house cleaningSpecific jobs2£5.11
carpet cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords782£1.31
office cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords25no price
Ranks and trend

How Edinburgh compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, house cleaners searches in Edinburgh peaked in January 2025 at 1,130 and were lowest in December 2025 at 120. Edinburgh's single latest tracked month is down 25.9% on the same month a year ago and down 28.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Edinburgh, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "regular house cleaning", down 87.5%.

  • Edinburgh is 22nd of 24 United Kingdom cities by click price, among the three highest.
  • Edinburgh is 8th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Edinburgh is 2nd of 2 Scotland cities by click price, the highest.
  • Edinburgh is 2nd of 2 Scotland cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • For this service, Edinburgh sits in Scotland, which is 16th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 6.5 businesses per 10,000 people across Scotland).
  • Edinburgh's 42.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 47.1 for this service.
  • Edinburgh's median house cleaning click price of £4.01 is 61.0% above the country median of £2.49.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 56.6% on the 12 months before.
  • In Edinburgh, searches peak in October, about 50.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.
Businesses

House cleaning businesses in Edinburgh

The Office for National Statistics counts 355 businesses in this industry in Edinburgh (2026), about 6.7 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 531,370 (Edinburgh). 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

House cleaning click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 2nd of 6 countries by median house cleaning 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$1.88104.25
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$3.3447.125
CanadaUS$5.2543.813
New ZealandUS$5.3857.46
AustraliaUS$8.75106.725
United StatesUS$11.7740.550

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 house cleaning ads in Edinburgh

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a house cleaner in Edinburgh?

£4.01 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted house cleaning search terms in Edinburgh (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Edinburgh is 22nd of 24 United Kingdom cities by click price, among the three highest.

How many people search for a house cleaner in Edinburgh each month?

223 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 56.6% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked clean cost in clicks for house cleaners in Edinburgh?

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 £119 in clicks at £4.01 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 Edinburgh 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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