Pest control ads in St. Louis: US$28.16 a click
A Google Ads click for a pest controller in St. Louis costs US$28.16 at the search-weighted average (1,117 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 29.5% on the 12 months before.
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 US$833 in clicks at US$28.16 a click.
In St. Louis, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at US$9.97. The highest click price on this page in St. Louis is near me at US$39.84.
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 US$833 in clicks at US$28.16 a click.
Cost per booked treatment in St. Louis is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not St. Louis figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.
| Intent group | Click price | Per booked treatment |
|---|---|---|
| General searches | US$25.73 | US$761 |
| Near me | US$39.84 | US$1,178 |
| Urgent | US$32.26 | US$954 |
| Specific jobs | US$9.97 | US$295 |
Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.
Where the pest control searches are in St. Louis
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 St. Louis, at 35.2%.
In St. Louis, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$39.84 a click.
An urgent search (“emergency pest control”) costs US$83.99 a click, against US$25.73 for “pest control”.
General searches
Near me
Highest click price on this pageUrgent
Specific jobs
Lowest click price on this pageRelated keywords
Not countedPlan a month of pest control ads in St. Louis
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)
US$1,000 at US$28.16 a click buys about 35.5 clicks a month.
If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 2.9 calls and 1.2 booked treatments, so each booked treatment costs about US$833 in clicks.
Put in your value per treatment and your margin to see whether this pays back.
Every pest control keyword tracked in St. Louis
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 St. Louis are “pest control near me” (394 searches a month at US$39.84 a click), “pest control” (371 searches a month at US$25.73 a click), and “termite inspection” (108 searches a month at US$13.28 a click).
In St. Louis, “emergency pest control” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$83.99 a click, 154.1% above the US$33.05 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.
In St. Louis, “pre-purchase pest inspection” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.
In St. Louis, 7 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.
| Keyword | Intent | Searches | Click |
|---|---|---|---|
| pest control | General searches | 371 | US$25.73 |
| pest control near me | Near me | 394 | US$39.84 |
| termite treatment | Urgent | 85 | US$24.96 |
| emergency pest control | Urgent | 12 | US$83.99 |
| termite inspection | Specific jobs | 108 | US$13.28 |
| rodent control | Specific jobs | 69 | US$6.05 |
| spider control | Specific jobs | 48 | US$8.15 |
| pest inspection | Specific jobs | 13 | no price |
| cockroach treatment | Specific jobs | 11 | no price |
| ant treatment | Specific jobs | 7 | no price |
| pre-purchase pest inspection | Specific jobs | 0 | no price |
| fumigation Related, not counted | Related keywords | 52 | no price |
How St. Louis compares in the United States
Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in St. Louis peaked in May 2023 at 2,330 and were lowest in February 2026 at 690. St. Louis's single latest tracked month is down 18.9% on the same month a year ago and down 21.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In St. Louis, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "pre-purchase pest inspection", down 100.0%.
- St. Louis is 16th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
- St. Louis is 37th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
- St. Louis is 1st of 2 Missouri cities by click price, the lowest.
- St. Louis is 2nd of 2 Missouri cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
- For this service, St. Louis sits in Missouri, which is 21st of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.5 businesses per 10,000 people across Missouri).
- St. Louis's 39.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 54.4 for this service.
- St. Louis's median pest control click price of US$28.16 is 14.8% below the country median of US$33.05.
- Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 29.5% on the 12 months before.
- In St. Louis, searches peak in May, about 32.5% above the monthly average, and are lowest in February.
Pest control businesses in St. Louis
The US Census Bureau counts 126 businesses in this industry in St. Louis, MO-IL (2023), about 0.5 for every 10,000 people.
What is counted: employer establishments.
Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.
Population: 2,814,421 (St. Louis, MO-IL). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.
Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.
Pest control click prices in 6 countries
United States is 6th of 6 countries by median pest control click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
| Country | Median click (US$) | Searches per 100,000 people | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | US$3.59 | 88.5 | 5 |
| New Zealand | US$5.02 | 74.5 | 6 |
| United Kingdom | US$5.09 | 57.6 | 25 |
| Canada | US$5.64 | 57.6 | 13 |
| Australia | US$11.76 | 168.1 | 25 |
| United States this page's country | US$33.05 | 54.4 | 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 pest controllers in the United States
Licensing is set by each state.
Questions people ask about pest control ads in St. Louis
How much does a Google Ads click cost for a pest controller in St. Louis?
US$28.16 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted pest control search terms in St. Louis (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). St. Louis is 16th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
How many people search for a pest controller in St. Louis each month?
1,117 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 29.5% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).
What does a booked treatment cost in clicks for pest controllers in St. Louis?
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 US$833 in clicks at US$28.16 a click.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (Exterminating and Pest Control Services). Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.
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Method
Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United States, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to St. Louis with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.
Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.
Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.
Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.
Cost per booked treatment is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.
Google Ads reports click prices in US$, 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), Home & Home Improvement | Published benchmark, cited |
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades | Published benchmark, cited |
Business counts, 2023 | US government work / public domain |
Population |
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