Adding your business details to Gumtree’s business directory is a good way of getting some more enquiries.

  • It does seem that Gumtree gets a reasonable amount of people visiting the pages.
  • Gumtree popularity appears to be increasing with more people using it more often.
  • Listing cost is initially free and lasts 45 days.
  • Gumtree pages do show up in Google search results occasionally.
  • It’s pretty easy to create a business listing on Gumtree and takes about 10min to complete.

So, now that you know it’s worth doing lets see how we setup a business listing on Gumtree.

First, head to gumtree.com.au/p-post-ad.html to post an ad.

Post an ad on Gumtree


Select Business Services, Category, Sub category, I'm offering a service


Enter your business name, slogan and add a logo


Here is a sample square photoshop logo file: download the zip and extract.

Add 5 areas of expertise or benefits and as much description text as you like


Add up to 10 photos


City / address and opening hours details


Contact information name, email, phone, website


Post the ad


If not already registered then do so


Check email to validate listing


Add listing approved


Login to check or edit ad


Add summary


Example of add listing in search results


Example of add listing in search results


The example above was for the promotion of Ceramex for tiling in Newcastle, www.ceramex.com.au so that people can more easily find the services listed via Gumtree.