WHY ADVERTISE YOUR GITE OR RENTAL PROPERTY WITH US?

We have two options: Free Listings and £25 a Year Listings

Some reasons to list your gite with us:

1. WE GET RESULTS! Every day several thousand visitors visit France This Way, many of them to make their travel plans. We don't have enough properties to offer these visitors!

These visitors come from the search engines. As an example, we rate highly in google for many phrases including 'gites in France', 'France travel', 'visit France',  'travel to France' and literally thousands of phrases related to individual places within France. We are not talking about ambitious future plans that will never be met, these visitors are already on our site, day and night.

2. VALUE FOR MONEY - we offer free listings for qualifying sites, and charge just £25 per year for other listings or sites not wanting to link back to us. Both of these listings provide great value.

3. WE SEND VISITORS STRAIGHT TO YOUR WEBSITE - (unlike most rental listing sites). This will increase your chances of converting visitors to bookings. Hence you do need to have a website.

4. LIMIT TO NUMBER OF PROPERTIES THAT WE LIST - there is a maximum on the number of properties we will accept - 25 properties per region, per size category (small, medium and large). Your property will always be on page 1 for its category. The order of properties shown will be randomly changed so everyone gets a go at the top.

As gite owners ourselves we realise it is a bit of a gamble for property owners when choosing a new listing site for a holiday property. Try us for a year and we are confident you will renew!

 

We have 2 options for you - PAID and FREE

PAID ADVERTISING

- A paid listing costs just £25/ 40 euros per year.

- Properties are found through the 'Select from Private and featured Listings' box on each main regional page. You can see a sample of how a listing page looks HERE

Any questions? contact us

FREE ADVERTISING

With this option you really have nothing to lose. We will list your property on this site without charge if you add a direct link to our site on your website. Your website must be:

• more than 6 months old
• the page where you are adding our link must have a google PageRank of 1 or more (don't know your page rank? check HERE) and
• the site must have its own domain name (e.g. www.yourlovelygite.com, not lovelygite.orange.fr)
• there should not be lots of other external links on the page, a maximum of about 3-5 is normal. We will not be able to accept a link on  a 'links' page.

You can choose to link either to our French gites section, or if you prefer not to link to a gites site, you can link to our France car hire section, perhaps as a recommended service to your site visitors.

If you choose the free listing option, ignore the payment request and send us an email to let us know where you have added the link or to ask for more details.

 

What should you add to your own website?

These examples might help, although you are free to use your own words:

'If travelling to (insert your location) we suggest you check the France car hire prices at francethisway.com

'This site is listed at francethisway.com - the France travel guide and French gites listings'

The small print: the link to us must be within the main text of the page, the same size as the other text on the page, and not buried in invisible writing at the bottom of the page! Typically a sentence added below the other text of the page is suitable.

Alternatively why not use the logo below to link to us!

 

What Next

Given the current competition in the holiday rental listing business it is unlikely that any single listing site will fill all your vacant weeks for you (not even ours!). For some other  recommended options please see free advertising for gites (although it includes a couple of paid options as well!)

 

Other Options / Other Advertising

 - for general advertising on the site, and several ways to promote your business, see FRENCH BUSINESS ADVERTISING

NOTE FOR AGENTS

Agents and listing sites are welcome to submit properties. two additional rules apply:

- a minimum of 25 properties must be submitted (i.e. a minimum cost of £625 pa)
- each link must be to a particular property in your site, not to the site homepage

Please contact us if you have a lot of properties to submit - we might be able to accept an XML datafeed for example.

Payment by cheque will be possible.

 

LOTS OF LISTING SITES ARE FREE...WHY AREN'T WE?

We are very excited about this opportunity, both for ourselves and for you, and wish it could be free. But it takes time, effort and money to continue to rank well and attract visitors to a website.

Creating a listing site is cheap and easy. But creating a site with thousands of targetted visitors is much harder. We plan to continue to expand. So a 'free listing' site isn't a viable business model for us (or you!)

We will continue to have other forms of advertising on the site where appropriate, in order that we can keep costs as low as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

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