ABOUT MPO

Mornington Peninsula Online is a joint commercial venture between Southern Cross Internet Services Pty.Ltd and Exclusive Web Services Pty.Ltd

Back in 1996 Ross Wilson, the director of Southern Cross, decided to develop an Online guide to the Mornington Peninsula. This was an exercise to both learn more about web design and construction, in what was then a very new industry, and to secondly promote the Mornington Peninsula where he has spent most of his life.

Ross then met and married Monica, who luck would have it, was a professional web designer who ran her own business, Exclusive Web Services.

Southern Cross, as a local ISP, merged with Foxnet to form Satlink Internet Services and grew to be the largest Internet Provider on the Mornington Peninsula.

The Mornington Peninsula Guide also grew in popularity being both linked from the Satlink web site and coming up as number 1 in the search engines.

With the web site averaging over 50,000 hits per month Monica suggested that she re-develop and expand the site with a fully programmed and searchable data base of every business on the Peninsula.

This was a huge undertaking and took over 12 months and in between developing web sites for her clients, occupied most of her spare time.

Satlink Internet Services was sold to Chariot in 2004 but Ross retained MPO and has continued to work with Monica in maintaining the directory and further updating it.

Ross says, that with the huge growth in the Internet and more and more people turning to the Net to find what they are looking for, the hardest thing for businesses wanting to market themselves on the Internet, is to be found.

This is where a Regional Directory like MPO comes to the forefront. It is already found and ranking in the search engines and locals use it to look up names and addresses or perhaps decide where to go for dinner.

MPO is now attracting over 15,000 hits per day

So even if you already have your own web site, to make the most of it, you should be linked from MPO

If you don't have a web site yet, you can start with your own web page in the MPO directory at very little cost.