Why Search at StartLocal®?

StartLocal® is Australia's interactive local search engine that delivers accurate local business results every time.

With some highly innovative features that keep relevancy at the forefront of your search, StartLocal® is the smart choice to find local businesses.

Here are just some of the useful features of StartLocal®:

  • Local Presence: Our search engine is constantly evolving as every Australian business with a genuine local presence is able to list themselves 100% free of charge
  • Expand Your Radius: While doing a local search, easily expand your local search radius anywhere from 5 to 50 km
  • Feature Rich Profiles: As we don't charge businesses for adding in extras, you will find feature rich business profiles with pictures, user recommendations, products offered, services provided, brands, specialties, opening hours, urls, local maps and customised business documents like brochures, menus and catalogues.
  • Refine Your Search: Refine your search based on categories, postcodes, regions and tags
  • Tags: We search through product tags, service tags as well as our extensive database to bring you greater relevancy for your search.
  • Free Listings: Unlike other directories, paid listings do not affect our search results, so you get real local results every time. This means no more having to sift through pages of ads to find what you are looking for
  • Over 1.2 Million Listings: Well over 1.2 million unique business listings from around Australia and this number is constantly growing. This figure is also not distorted with out of date and duplicate listings that lurk in some of our competitors websites.
  • Feedback: StartLocal® is a complete web 2.0 platform; we incorporate feedback from our users to make sure that each listing is as up to date as possible as well as continuing to improve our system with your recommendations.
  • Predictive Text: Predictive text to help you complete your keyword and location search.

We are constantly evolving to improve your experience with us and we welcome all feedback.

With well over 2 million visitors every month we have quickly grown to become one of the largest local search engines in Australia and we aim to keep on growing to serve you better.

We hope you enjoy using StartLocal®.