Vet ads in Reading: £2.02 a click

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 £57 in clicks at £2.02 a click.

Cost per booked appointment in Reading is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Reading 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 vet searches are in Reading

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 Reading, at 59.9%.

In Reading, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £2.78 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency vet”) costs £0.92 a click, against £1.85 for “vet”.

Plan a month of vet ads in Reading

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.

Every vet keyword tracked in Reading

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 Reading are “vet near me” (380 searches a month at £2.14 a click), “vet” (153 searches a month at £1.85 a click), and “animal hospital” (22 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Reading, “emergency vet” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.92 a click, 63.3% below the £2.51 median click price for vet across this country's tracked cities.

In Reading, “dog desexing” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

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

How Reading compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, vets searches in Reading peaked in September 2022 at 1,290 and were lowest in April 2023 at 470. Reading's single latest tracked month is up 9.4% on the same month a year ago and down 27.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Reading, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "animal hospital", up 170.0%.

• Reading is 8th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
• Reading is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Reading is 1st of 2 South East England cities by click price, the lowest.
• Reading is 2nd of 2 South East England cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
• For this service, Reading sits in South East England, which is 16th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.8 businesses per 10,000 people across South East England).
• Reading's 345.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 333.0 for this service.
• Reading's median vet click price of £2.02 is 19.5% below the country median of £2.51.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 16.5% on the 12 months before.
• In Reading, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, September, is not a strong peak.

Vet businesses in Reading

The Office for National Statistics counts 10 businesses in this industry in Reading (2026), about 0.5 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 183,762 (Reading). 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.

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.

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 for vets in the United Kingdom

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

Questions people ask about vet ads in Reading

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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.