Accountant ads in Louisville: US$13.88 a click
A Google Ads click for an accountant in Louisville costs US$13.88 at the search-weighted average (263 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 39.9% on the 12 months before.
There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.
What a booked return costs in clicks
There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.
Cost per booked return in Louisville is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Louisville figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.
| Intent group | Click price | Per booked return |
|---|---|---|
| Near me | US$13.88 | put in your rates |
Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.
Where the accountant searches are in Louisville
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 Louisville, at 62.9%.
In Louisville, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$13.88 a click.
General searches
Near me
Specific jobs
Related keywords
Not countedPlan a month of accountant ads in Louisville
Put in your own value per return 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)
US$1,000 at US$13.88 a click buys about 72.0 clicks a month.
Put in your call and booking rates to see how many booked returns this buys.
Put in your value per return and your margin to see whether this pays back.
Every accountant keyword tracked in Louisville
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 accountant keywords in Louisville are “accountant” (166 searches a month with no Google click price), “accountant near me” (42 searches a month at US$13.88 a click), and “tax accountant” (23 searches a month with no Google click price).
In Louisville, “tax return accountant” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.
In Louisville, 1 of the 7 counted accountant keywords tracked here has a recorded Google click price.
| Keyword | Intent | Searches | Click |
|---|---|---|---|
| accountant | General searches | 166 | no price |
| accountant near me | Near me | 42 | US$13.88 |
| tax accountant | Specific jobs | 23 | no price |
| small business accountant | Specific jobs | 12 | no price |
| business accountant | Specific jobs | 11 | no price |
| tax agent | Specific jobs | 10 | no price |
| tax return accountant | Specific jobs | 0 | no price |
| bookkeeper Related, not counted | Related keywords | 117 | no price |
| bookkeeping services Related, not counted | Related keywords | 27 | US$27.57 |
How Louisville compares in the United States
Over the 48 months tracked, accountants searches in Louisville peaked in June 2025 at 810 and were lowest in August 2023 at 160. Louisville's single latest tracked month is down 14.7% on the same month a year ago and up 20.8% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Louisville, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "tax return accountant", down 100.0%.
- Louisville is 16th of 49 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
- Louisville is 41st of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
- Louisville is the only city in Kentucky in this set, so there is no same-state rank.
- For this service, Louisville sits in Kentucky, which is 4th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 1.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Kentucky).
- Louisville's 18.8 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 22.2 for this service.
- Louisville's median accountant click price of US$13.88 is 30.0% below the country median of US$19.83.
- Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 39.9% on the 12 months before.
- In Louisville, searches peak in March, about 59.9% above the monthly average, and are lowest in September.
Accountant businesses in Louisville
The US Census Bureau counts 181 businesses in this industry in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN (2023), about 1.3 for every 10,000 people.
What is counted: employer establishments.
Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.
Population: 1,402,509 (Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.
Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.
Accountant click prices in 6 countries
United States is 6th of 6 countries by median accountant click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
| Country | Median click (US$) | Searches per 100,000 people | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | US$5.00 | 150.1 | 5 |
| Canada | US$6.12 | 57.5 | 13 |
| Australia | US$7.75 | 176.6 | 25 |
| New Zealand | US$8.46 | 107.8 | 6 |
| United Kingdom | US$13.84 | 75.8 | 25 |
| United States this page's country | US$19.83 | 22.2 | 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.
Rules for accountants in the United States
Licensing is set by each state. CPA licensure specifically is a state board matter; there is no federal CPA license.
Questions people ask about accountant ads in Louisville
How much does a Google Ads click cost for an accountant in Louisville?
US$13.88 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted accountant search terms in Louisville (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Louisville is 16th of 49 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
How many people search for an accountant in Louisville each month?
263 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 39.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).
What does a booked return cost in clicks for accountants in Louisville?
There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (Offices of Certified Public Accountants). 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 States, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Louisville 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 return 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.
Google Ads reports click prices in US$, so no currency conversion applies.
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 October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.
| Dataset | License |
|---|---|
DataForSEO, retrieved October 13, 2026 | DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API) |
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Finance & Insurance | Published benchmark, cited |
Business counts, 2023 | US government work / public domain |
Population |
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