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Pest control ads in Southampton: £3.97 a click

A Google Ads click for a pest controller in Southampton costs £3.97 at the search-weighted average (92 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are up 46.7% 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
£3.97
Searches a month
92
Year on year
up 46.7%
Click cost per booked treatment
£117

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 £117 in clicks at £3.97 a click.

In Southampton, the lowest click price on this page is near me at £0.88. The highest click price on this page in Southampton is general searches at £5.28.

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 £117 in clicks at £3.97 a click.

Cost per booked treatment 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 treatment
General searches£5.28£156
Near me£0.88£26
Specific jobs£3.07£91

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 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 49.5%.

In Southampton, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £5.28 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“pest control”
Searches a month46, 49.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£5.28
In Southampton, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“pest control near me”
Searches a month18, 19.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£0.88
In Southampton, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Urgent

“termite treatment”, “emergency pest control”
Searches a month10, 10.8% 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 month19, 20.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.07

Related keywords

Not counted
“fumigation”
Searches a month11
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 Southampton

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
251.9
Calls or forms
20.3
Booked treatments
8.5
Click cost per booked treatment
£117

£1,000 at £3.97 a click buys about 251.9 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 20.3 calls and 8.5 booked treatments, so each booked treatment costs about £117 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every pest control 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 pest control keywords in Southampton are “pest control” (46 searches a month at £5.28 a click), “pest control near me” (18 searches a month at £0.88 a click), and “rodent control” (8 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Southampton, “pest control near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.88 a click, 76.8% below the £3.80 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.

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

In Southampton, 3 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
pest controlGeneral searches46£5.28
pest control near meNear me18£0.88
termite treatmentUrgent6no price
emergency pest controlUrgent4no price
rodent controlSpecific jobs8no price
cockroach treatmentSpecific jobs5£3.07
pest inspectionSpecific jobs2no price
spider controlSpecific jobs2no price
ant treatmentSpecific jobs1no price
termite inspectionSpecific jobs1no price
pre-purchase pest inspectionSpecific jobs0no price
fumigation
Related, not counted
Related keywords11no price
Ranks and trend

How Southampton compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in Southampton peaked in October 2023 at 190 and were lowest in May 2025 at 30. Southampton's single latest tracked month is up 200.0% on the same month a year ago and up 100.0% 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 "emergency pest control", up 150.0%.

  • Southampton is 17th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Southampton is 21st 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 1st of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, the lowest (an average of 0.0 businesses per 10,000 people across Hampshire).
  • Southampton's 35.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 57.6 for this service.
  • Southampton's median pest control click price of £3.97 is 4.5% above the country median of £3.80.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 46.7% on the 12 months before.
  • In Southampton, searches peak in August, about 30.9% above the monthly average, and are lowest in January.
Businesses

Pest control businesses in Southampton

The Office for National Statistics counts 0 businesses in this industry in Southampton (2026), about 0.0 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

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.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$3.5988.55
New ZealandUS$5.0274.56
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$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 Southampton

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

£3.97 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted pest control search terms in Southampton (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Southampton is 17th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

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

92 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, up 46.7% 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 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 treatment costs about £117 in clicks at £3.97 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 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.

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

Related: Pest control in London, Pest control in Birmingham, Pest control in Manchester, Pest control across United Kingdom, All services in Southampton.

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