Pest control ads in Southend-on-Sea: £3.62 a click

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 £107 in clicks at £3.62 a click.

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

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

Where the pest control searches are in Southend-on-Sea

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 Southend-on-Sea, at 46.3%.

In Southend-on-Sea, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £5.00 a click.

Plan a month of pest control ads in Southend-on-Sea

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.

Every pest control keyword tracked in Southend-on-Sea

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 Southend-on-Sea are “pest control” (44 searches a month at £2.77 a click), “pest control near me” (32 searches a month at £5.00 a click), and “rodent control” (7 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Southend-on-Sea, “spider control” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.18 a click, 95.3% below the £3.80 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.

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

In Southend-on-Sea, 3 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Southend-on-Sea compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in Southend-on-Sea peaked in May 2023 at 240 and were lowest in April 2023 at 60. Southend-on-Sea's single latest tracked month is down 47.1% on the same month a year ago and down 30.8% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Southend-on-Sea, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "pest inspection", down 100.0%.

• Southend-on-Sea is 12th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
• Southend-on-Sea is 20th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Southend-on-Sea is the only city in East of England in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
• For this service, Southend-on-Sea sits in East of England, which is 19th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, the highest (an average of 0.3 businesses per 10,000 people across East of England).
• Southend-on-Sea's 51.3 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 57.6 for this service.
• Southend-on-Sea's median pest control click price of £3.62 is 4.7% below the country median of £3.80.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 30.1% on the 12 months before.
• In Southend-on-Sea, searches peak in November, about 36.8% above the monthly average, and are lowest in April.

Pest control businesses in Southend-on-Sea

The Office for National Statistics counts 5 businesses in this industry in Southend-on-Sea (2026), about 0.3 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 185,214 (Southend-on-Sea). 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.

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.

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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.