Vet ads in Seattle: US$6.46 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 US$181 in clicks at US$6.46 a click.

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

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 Seattle, at 42.3%.

In Seattle, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$6.82 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency vet”) costs US$6.82 a click, against US$6.03 for “vet”.

Plan a month of vet ads in Seattle

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 Seattle

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 Seattle are “vet near me” (4,983 searches a month at US$6.53 a click), “vet” (3,800 searches a month at US$6.03 a click), and “emergency vet” (787 searches a month at US$6.82 a click).

In Seattle, “puppy vaccination” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$3.81 a click, 60.1% below the US$9.54 median click price for vet across this country's tracked cities.

In Seattle, “dog desexing” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 7 searches a month.

In Seattle, 11 of the 12 counted vet keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Seattle compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, vets searches in Seattle peaked in March 2025 at 20,190 and were lowest in May 2026 at 10,260. Seattle's single latest tracked month is up 6.2% on the same month a year ago and down 5.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Seattle, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "24 hour vet", down 44.0%.

• Seattle is 2nd of 50 United States cities by click price, among the three lowest.
• Seattle is 11th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Seattle is the only city in Washington in this set, so there is no same-state rank.
• For this service, Seattle sits in Washington, which is 26th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 1.1 businesses per 10,000 people across Washington).
• Seattle's 283.3 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 244.6 for this service.
• Seattle's median vet click price of US$6.46 is 32.3% below the country median of US$9.54.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 19.5% on the 12 months before.
• In Seattle, searches peak in September, about 15.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in May.

Vet businesses in Seattle

The US Census Bureau counts 475 businesses in this industry in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (2023), about 1.1 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 4,161,883 (Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA). 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.

Vet click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th 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 States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about vet ads in Seattle

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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.