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Mission Beach Shores • Mission Beach
- Create high quality website for Mission Beach Shores luxury beachfront accommodation venue.
- Establish high profile online brand awareness.
- Establish search engine rankings.
- Online enquiry and reservations functionality complete with e-commerce ability to accept credit card payments for accommodation booking deposits.
The Result
A clean and crisp website that reflects the quality of the actual venue to a tee. Sporting friendly navigation, the colours used are exactly those used on the complex itself. Pockets of Flash™ animation compliment the uncluttered design and add to the attractiveness of the theme resulting in improved visitor attention.
The site is the recipient of the prestigious Gold Web Award presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers.
The  e-Path Internet Payment Gateway service is used to enable guests to pay accommodation booking deposits by credit card online.
At one stage the owners secured the services of a professional website Search Engine Optimisation company, taking this site out of our hands. The results weren't exactly satisfactory and after three months the responsibility for the continued optimisation and marketing of the site was returned back to us. We promptly went about restoring the sites rankings.
*Search engine rankings are excellent, within the top ten position across all search engines using targeted keyword phrases such as Mission Beach beachfront accommodation, Mission Beach bungalows, Mission Beach luxury accommodation. 'Owns' position #1 in Live™, AltaVista™ and Yahoo™ for Mission Beach beachfront, Mission Beach beachfront accommodation, Mission Beach bungalow accommodation. The venue enjoys an average occupancy rate of near 75%, of which over 50% derives directly from our Mission Beach Shores website. [permission granted by owner to publish these figures].
Hosting:  Netports Classic Web Hosting
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Cassawong Cottages • Mission Beach
- Establish high quality internet presence for Cassawong Cottages Mission Beach family beachfront accommodation complex.
- Develop and market online branding.
- Establish search engine rankings.
- Focus on children friendly.
- Establish and integrate online credit card payment gateway.
The Result
A highly attractive website that makes good use of Flash™ animation to highlight the backing rainforest location and lush tropical surrounds. Clean and easy navigation and user friendly layout with well positioned and totally unique quality artistry all adds strength to the sites appeal.
Another site that utilses the very affordable e-Path Internet Payment Gateway service to enable guests to safely and securely pay accommodation booking deposits by credit card online.
The site is the recipient of the prestigious Gold Web Award presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers. The complex itself has won a Tropical North Queensland Tourism Award and was a finalist in the state wide Tourism Queensland Awards.
*Search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo™, Live™, Lycos™, AltaVista™ sees Cassawong Cottages as one of the leading accommodation venues for Mission Beach on the internet. Multiple pages appearing within top 5 positions for chosen keyword phrases of Mission Beach family accommodation, family beachfront accommodation, family accommodation Mission Beach.
Enjoys sensational top 3 position for beachfront accommodation Queensland and family holiday accommodation Queensland ahead of websites from the Gold Coast, Port Douglas, Arlie Beach etc., and ranks very highly with other similar search words mixes.
Hosting: Netports Failover Web Hosting
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The Mission Beach Australia Website
[owned and operated by Netports Australia]
- Develop a portal tourism website that would bring the Mission Beach community together for the purpose of promoting Mission Beach as a major holiday destination in its own right.
- Build brand awareness.
- Reduce reliance on Cairns and Townsville based tourism organisations.
- Establish search engine rankings.
The mymissionbeach.com website is a personal project of the founder of Netports Australia, Peter Thwaites. Created in 2001, the free Mission Beach Community website is now one of Queenslands most visited regional tourism sites on the internet - and we should know, we have to pay for the traffic bandwidth the site uses!!
The Result
Cool blues together with a design that highlights core assets of the Mission Beach area teamed with simple yet effective text link navigation makes this site a very user friendly and appealing resource. Peter first created his now very popular Ulysses butterfly Flash™ animation for this site.
The gentle undulating curves, both coloured and semi transparent used in the design were a departure from the "boxie" layouts of that time. Now, some five years later, similar design themes can be found everywhere, especially on other North Queensland based websites. The site contains one of the most thorough History sections of any tourism website of the region.
The website is the recipient of the prestigious Gold Web Award presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers and won Yahoo™ (world wide) tourism website of the month in November 2002. The site also made it to a finals position in the Telstra Country Wide Media Awards.
* This website can be seen within countless top 3 positions across all search engines when using keywords that pertain to its topic, for example Mission Beach beachfront accommodation, Mission Beach holiday accommodation, Mission Beach holiday accommodation and is usually always within the top ten when similarly relevant search terms are used, such as Mission Beach tours and Mission Beach bed and breakfast and others.
Apart from its purpose to promote Mission Beach, the site is used extensively to help promote other Mission Beach websites and is responsible for thousands of click-throughs to accommodation, tours and activities websites and many others within the Mission Beach community.
Search engine positions fluctuate extensively with this website. Due to the high number of websites listed on this site, when any of them are down search engines will record it as a negative not only for the website experiencing problems but also for the source site. When a website has trouble like this it is usually because of poor quality web hosting.
Since its launch in 2001, visitors to the website have sent out a total of 264,337 Mission Beach Postcards (as at June, 2007) - from the postcard function available on the site. A lot of people are hearing about Mission Beach!
Netports Australia remains committed to continuing to provide this free website for the benefit of the whole Mission Beach community.
Hosting: Netports Queensland Web Hosting
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Mission Beach Rainforest Motel • Mission Beach
- Establish new website presence for Mission Beach Rainforest Motel accommodation complex.
- Develop and market online branding.
- Establish search engine rankings.
The Result
A website that indeed shows off the creativity of our web development team, and again is a total departure from harsh square type design layouts that are common place on the net. Soft flowing undulating curves give the site an easy and friendly appeal while Flash™ animation is brilliantly used to deliver little butterflies as the mouse chooses a menu item from the top header.
This is another website that retains the integrity of its presentation across all screen resolutions - in other words it doesn't distort trying to meet with various monitor sizes.
The site is the recipient of the prestigious Gold Web Award presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers in 2003.
*Search engine positions remain very healthy and consistent with numerous top 5 positions for Mission Beach motel accommodation, motel accommodation Mission Beach and similar.
Hosting: Netports Classic Web Hosting
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