Pest control ads in Edinburgh: £3.07 a click
A Google Ads click for a pest controller in Edinburgh costs £3.07 at the search-weighted average (282 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 39.0% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
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 £91 in clicks at £3.07 a click.
In Edinburgh, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at £0.12. The highest click price on this page in Edinburgh is general searches at £3.54.
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 £91 in clicks at £3.07 a click.
Cost per booked treatment 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 group | Click price | Per booked treatment |
|---|---|---|
| General searches | £3.54 | £105 |
| Near me | £2.37 | £70 |
| Specific jobs | £0.12 | £4 |
Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.
Where the pest control 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.
General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Edinburgh, at 54.8%.
In Edinburgh, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £3.54 a click.
General searches
Highest click price on this pageNear me
Urgent
Specific jobs
Lowest click price on this pageRelated keywords
Not countedPlan a month of pest control ads in Edinburgh
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)
£1,000 at £3.07 a click buys about 325.7 clicks a month.
If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 26.2 calls and 11.0 booked treatments, so each booked treatment costs about £91 in clicks.
Put in your value per treatment and your margin to see whether this pays back.
Every pest control 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 pest control keywords in Edinburgh are “pest control” (154 searches a month at £3.54 a click), “pest control near me” (80 searches a month at £2.37 a click), and “rodent control” (14 searches a month with no Google click price).
In Edinburgh, “ant treatment” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.12 a click, 96.8% below the £3.80 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.
In Edinburgh, “pre-purchase pest inspection” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.
In Edinburgh, 3 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.
| Keyword | Intent | Searches | Click |
|---|---|---|---|
| pest control | General searches | 154 | £3.54 |
| pest control near me | Near me | 80 | £2.37 |
| termite treatment | Urgent | 10 | no price |
| emergency pest control | Urgent | 8 | no price |
| rodent control | Specific jobs | 14 | no price |
| ant treatment | Specific jobs | 5 | £0.12 |
| cockroach treatment | Specific jobs | 3 | no price |
| spider control | Specific jobs | 3 | no price |
| pest inspection | Specific jobs | 2 | no price |
| termite inspection | Specific jobs | 2 | no price |
| pre-purchase pest inspection | Specific jobs | 0 | no price |
| fumigation Related, not counted | Related keywords | 26 | no price |
How Edinburgh compares in the United Kingdom
Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in Edinburgh peaked in December 2024 at 760 and were lowest in December 2025 at 180. Edinburgh's single latest tracked month is down 8.3% on the same month a year ago and down 10.8% 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 "pest inspection", down 75.0%.
- Edinburgh is 6th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
- Edinburgh is 8th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
- Edinburgh is 1st of 2 Scotland cities by click price, the lowest.
- Edinburgh is 2nd of 2 Scotland cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
- For this service, Edinburgh sits in Scotland, which is 14th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.1 businesses per 10,000 people across Scotland).
- Edinburgh's 53.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 57.6 for this service.
- Edinburgh's median pest control click price of £3.07 is 19.2% below the country median of £3.80.
- Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 39.0% on the 12 months before.
- In Edinburgh, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, December, is not a strong peak.
Pest control businesses in Edinburgh
The Office for National Statistics counts 5 businesses in this industry in Edinburgh (2026), about 0.1 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.
Pest control click prices in 6 countries
United Kingdom is 3rd of 6 countries by median pest control click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
| Country | Median click (US$) | Searches per 100,000 people | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | US$3.59 | 88.5 | 5 |
| New Zealand | US$5.02 | 74.5 | 6 |
| United Kingdom this page's country | US$5.09 | 57.6 | 25 |
| Canada | US$5.64 | 57.6 | 13 |
| Australia | US$11.76 | 168.1 | 25 |
| United States | US$33.05 | 54.4 | 50 |
Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.
Questions people ask about pest control ads in Edinburgh
How much does a Google Ads click cost for a pest controller in Edinburgh?
£3.07 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted pest control search terms in Edinburgh (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Edinburgh is 6th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
How many people search for a pest controller in Edinburgh each month?
282 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 39.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).
What does a booked treatment cost in clicks for pest controllers in Edinburgh?
At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked treatment costs about £91 in clicks at £3.07 a click.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). Click prices convert from US$ 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 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$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).
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.
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.
| Dataset | Licence |
|---|---|
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 |
ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district) Business counts, 2026 | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
Population | |
September 2026 monthly average | US government work |
Related: Pest control in Glasgow, Pest control in London, Pest control in Birmingham, Pest control across United Kingdom, All services in Edinburgh.
