ABOUT MPO

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.

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

Satlink Internet Services was sold to Chariot in 2004 but Ross retained the guide and renamed it Mornington Peninsula Online (MPO). It was then further enhanced and updated to a full data base application with improved resources and features.

Nick Le Page, a local programmer and web designer who had worked on the site and the data base bought MPO in 2008 and is working on further development of this popular directory.

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.