GateWAy Blog

The Albany GateWAy web portal provides free and paid advertising for business and community users resident in the Great Southern.

For the past 10 years Albany Gateway has provided residents, communities, organizations and businesses of the Great Southern an online web portal to communicate within the region as well as on the world wide web with great success.

If you advertise on the internet, it is necessary however to be able to recognize an internet SCAM.
You will find all the information you need to recognize a scam on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s website www.scamwatch.gov.au
The SCAM email is identified by five key indicators:

1. The “buyer” is always in a remote location, overseas or offshore
2. The “buyer” has no phone access only internet access.
3. The “buyer” can only make payment through PayPal.
4. The “buyer” is offering more money for the vehicle than what’s been advertised without ever having viewed the vehicle.
5. The “buyer” is purchasing the vehicle for someone else

Visitors to Albany Gateway have been increasing from November to December.  See below for our December statistics;

•    Hits – Average per day 100,568 December – 97,784 November
•    Hits – Best day  153,111 December – 133,256 November
•    Page Views – Total 250,384 – December 243,326 November
•    Page Views – Average per day 8,076 December – 8,110 November
•    Average time spent on the site – 447 seconds (7.14 minutes) December
371 seconds (6.18 minutes) November

•    Demographics:
-    Total Hits from Australia 2,753,116 December 2,624,636 November
-    Total Hits from US 144,676 December 119,544 November
-    Total Hits from Great Britain 18,143 December 14,487 November

We are providing free training for all our current paid advertisers in the Albany GateWAy business directory.

This training was initially promoted in December, the first 2 dates are full, but there are a few places still left.

Computers will be supplied, you will;

> Login to change your own advertising.

> Learn about keywords and how to update, add and change photo’s and generally make the most of what Albany GateWAy can do for you.

> Bring your stuff and we will be there to show you how to do it.

Dates still available:

Mon 24 January 11:45am – 1:15pm
Tues 25 January 5:45pm – 7:15pm

To book phone 9842 9895 or email us admin@albanygateway.com.au

Christmas lights in York St Albany

Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year!

It has been a great year at Albany GateWAy this year and we would like to thank all our regular visitors who have contributed to giving the site a sense of community.  There has been so many great stories come our way of how useful it has been in connecting everyone to local businesses, community groups, buying and selling on the classifieds and events on the calendar.

The staff and board of management wish you and your loved ones a Christmas that is bright and cheerful and a prosperous New Year!  Office and Sales Staff: Debbie McBride, Tracey Sands, Jack Hamilton
Management Committee: Dave Rowley, Vicki Brown, Barb Helsby, Julie Wallis, Trish Ryans-Taylor, Vince Calleja

Just emailed the newsletter for December to all our GateWAy advertisers.

This months newsletter is about:

*  Your New Year’s Gift – Free Training – making the most of your Albany Gateway online advertising.
*  Like us on Facebook
*  November Statistics
*  Summer Opening Hours
*  Small Business Online Seminars

If you are a Albany GateWAy advertiser, go to your inbox and check it out, you will be glad you did.

The tradition of giving at Christmas is a very popular way to express appreciation and gratitude to friends, colleagues, acquaintances and last but not least, family.

What to buy for friends and family that is original, unique, useful or interesting is always a dilemma.  To make life a bit easier for you, we have setup a Christmas Gifts page, to give you some new ideas for what to buy this Christmas.

Not only will you be giving a gift to your loved one, you will be buying local because all the gifts are available in Albany.  Click here to find them.

We ran 2 competitions at this year’s Albany Show.

FREE BUSINESS ADVERTISING
The winner of the draw for advertising in the business directory is Jo Leadbeatter Beach Forest Treasures.
They have made the most of our offer and taken out features to the value of $580 which will give them 12 months.

We also had 2 prizes for all the people who completed our survey.

Mark was the winner of the Bruce Willis Frangrance set valued at $179.90 thanks to LR Health & Beauty.
Rachel was the winner of the Harmony Top Body Massage valued t $55 thanks to Harmony Touch.

As luxury accommodation providers, our aim is to give our guests the ultimate experience while in Albany.  We like to recommend places to eat, so we are trying the many restaurants in Albany.

Tonight we headed off to the ‘new’ Rustlers Steak House. The minute we walked through the door we were immediately impressed by the gorgeous surroundings. Rustlers have chosen their colours wisely and used the space well of what used to be a Health Club. (more…)

Awesome colours of the wild flowers

The Stirling Range National Park is about 80 kms north of Albany. The ranges rise abruptly from the lowlands which have been mostly cleared for farming. The ranges stretch for more than 65 kms, there are barren cliff faces, awesome views and brilliant coloured wildflowers. We walked along part of the Bluff Knoll Trail. (more…)

We went on long beach walk today from Ledge Beach to Gull Rock.Gull Rock Beach named of course, because of the large number of Gulls found on the rock just off shore, one of whom Captain Kalgan thinks might have been Jonathan Livingstone! Gull Rock is 26k East of Albany. The water was a turquoise colour and we were tempted to jump in. Albany has some of the most stunning and pristine beaches in Australia if not the world. There are beaches for fishing, snorkelling, swimming, surfing and body boarding. Stay at HideAway Haven while in Albany and enjoy some time at the beach. We have facilities for washing bathers and towels at the end of a day at the beach.

Ledge Beach

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