Search Tips

Keywords can narrow your search results, helping you to find the type of business opportunity you’re after. This can be either a particular industry, location, business name or a term important to you (eg. mobile business, work from home etc.)

 

Remember that by default, your search results will be listed in the order of most recent opporutnities, even if you have used keywords in your search. If you would like the results to appear in the order of relevance, you can select 'Relevance' from the Sort By drop down, located above the listings in your Search Results page.

Some tips to get the most relevant results:

One word
Depending on the word, the results will show you business opportunities that have that word in the ad description or, if the word is the same as one of SEEK Commercial’s industry categories, the results will list business opportunities classified in that category.

More than one word
If you search for two words, for example coffee shop, your results will list all the positions that include the words coffee AND shop. These words would not necessarily appear together. You can use or to list ads including either word.

Phrase searches
Use quotes to search for an exact phrase. For example "coffee shop" returns results with this exact phrase, where the words appear together. However SEEK Commercial’s technology is smart enough to recognise some common phrases and common variations, for example self starter, self-starter, selfstarter, and deliver all ads that mention self-starter, even if you don’t put quotes around them or use different spelling.

Excluding words
Use NOT to exclude keywords. A search of cafe NOT restaurant would list ads that include the word ‘cafe', but not those that include the word 'restaurant'.

Multiple words
SEEK Commercial also supports nested searches using brackets, for example cafe NOT (restaurant or take-away). In this case the search results will list ads that include the word ‘cafe' but none that also include the words ‘restaurant' or 'take-away'.

Capitalisation
SEEK Commercial searches are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for Coffee Shop, coffee shop or cOfFeE ShOp will all return the same results.

Automatic exclusion of common words
SEEK Commercial ignores common words and characters such as the, an, also, symbols such % and / and some phrases such as I am looking for… These tend to slow down your search without improving the results.