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Vet ads in Edinburgh: £1.83 a click

A Google Ads click for a vet in Edinburgh costs £1.83 at the search-weighted average (1,948 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 12.5% 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
£1.83
Searches a month
1,948
Year on year
down 12.5%
Click cost per booked appointment
£51

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about £51 in clicks at £1.83 a click.

In Edinburgh, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at £1.31. The highest click price on this page in Edinburgh is urgent at £2.43.

Cost per booked appointment

What a booked appointment costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about £51 in clicks at £1.83 a click.

Cost per booked appointment 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 appointment
General searches£1.36£38
Near me£2.12£59
Urgent£2.43£68
Specific jobs£1.31£37

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

By intent

Where the vet 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 55.4%.

In Edinburgh, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £2.43 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency vet”) costs £2.43 a click, against £1.56 for “vet”.

General searches

“vet”, “veterinary clinic”, “vet clinic”
Searches a month701, 36.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.36

Near me

“vet near me”
Searches a month1,080, 55.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.12

Urgent

Highest click price on this page
“emergency vet”, “24 hour vet”
Searches a month67, 3.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.43
In Edinburgh, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“pet vaccination”, “dog vaccination”, “puppy vaccination”, “cat vet”, “dog desexing”, “animal hospital”
Searches a month100, 5.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.31
In Edinburgh, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.
Plan

Plan a month of vet ads in Edinburgh

Put in your own value per appointment 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
546.4
Calls or forms
88.6
Booked appointments
19.5
Click cost per booked appointment
£51

£1,000 at £1.83 a click buys about 546.4 clicks a month.

If 16.22% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 22% of those calls, that is about 88.6 calls and 19.5 booked appointments, so each booked appointment costs about £51 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every vet 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 vet keywords in Edinburgh are “vet near me” (1,080 searches a month at £2.12 a click), “vet” (609 searches a month at £1.56 a click), and “emergency vet” (56 searches a month at £2.43 a click).

In Edinburgh, “vet clinic” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.07 a click, 97.2% below the £2.51 median click price for vet across this country's tracked cities.

In Edinburgh, “dog desexing” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 3 searches a month.

In Edinburgh, 8 of the 12 counted vet keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
vetGeneral searches609£1.56
vet clinicGeneral searches46£0.07
veterinary clinicGeneral searches46£0.07
vet near meNear me1,080£2.12
emergency vetUrgent56£2.43
24 hour vetUrgent11no price
animal hospitalSpecific jobs41no price
puppy vaccinationSpecific jobs23£0.92
dog vaccinationSpecific jobs17£0.42
cat vetSpecific jobs10£3.74
pet vaccinationSpecific jobs6no price
dog desexingSpecific jobs3no price
Ranks and trend

How Edinburgh compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, vets searches in Edinburgh peaked in January 2023 at 2,740 and were lowest in December 2025 at 1,510. Edinburgh's single latest tracked month is down 11.8% on the same month a year ago and down 31.9% 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 "cat vet", down 50.0%.

  • Edinburgh is 5th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Edinburgh is 7th 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 10th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.7 businesses per 10,000 people across Scotland).
  • Edinburgh's 366.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 333.0 for this service.
  • Edinburgh's median vet click price of £1.83 is 27.1% below the country median of £2.51.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 12.5% on the 12 months before.
  • In Edinburgh, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, October, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Vet businesses in Edinburgh

The Office for National Statistics counts 50 businesses in this industry in Edinburgh (2026), about 0.9 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

Vet click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 4th of 6 countries by median vet 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$0.61520.55
New ZealandUS$1.92493.26
AustraliaUS$2.47704.125
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$3.36333.025
CanadaUS$3.50390.513
United StatesUS$9.54244.650

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.

Rules

Rules for vets in the United Kingdom

Regulator or register: Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).

FAQ

Questions people ask about vet ads in Edinburgh

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

£1.83 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted vet search terms in Edinburgh (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Edinburgh is 5th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a vet in Edinburgh each month?

1,948 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 12.5% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked appointment cost in clicks for vets in Edinburgh?

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about £51 in clicks at £1.83 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 appointment 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), Animals & Pets
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: Vet in Glasgow, Vet in London, Vet in Birmingham, Vet across United Kingdom, All services in Edinburgh.

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