Feb 8, 2009

Renting in Ontario


Vacation time! This is the time to start searching the web for a place to spend your one precious week off, free from all the stress of an average day of work. As soon as you find the perfect place to visit, you need to find the perfect place to stay. Usually, you end up in an overpriced snooty hotel where you are forced to pay for all the pools and gyms and saunas you don’t need. You spend the day out with your kids, going to all the kiddie theme parks and circuses, and of course stopping at all the shops with anything remotely interesting in them and having to listen to “Mommy, I want ice cream!” or “Ooh, ooh, ooh Dad! I have to have that or I’ll die!” all day long. When you come back to the hotel, completely exhausted from your day of “fun”, you find a nice long bill waiting for you. There is another way to have a good vacation, you know.

Renting a cottage is one of the easiest, cheapest, most personal vacations ever. No one needs to waste money on a hotel they don’t spend any time at, when staying at a cottage is the vacation. No hassle, no stress. This is the easiest vacation destination. No need to go out to eat food you've never heard of when you've got a kitchen at home to cook your favourite meals. No need to get all dressed up only to eat food. In an Ontarian cottage you can eat in the privacy of your own cottage, where no one cares how you look.

Another great thing about cottages is that there's endless nature fun. If you're a big nature buff, you’ll love staying in a cottage. You'll be as close to nature as when you're camping, just with more agreeable accommodations. Ontario has four of the Great Lakes located within driving distance of all the major cities. This is very convenient for all who love fishing, hunting, kayaking, boating, and swimming. Your family will want to go to the beach.

There are some very nice beaches in Canada. Some great examples of Ontario beaches would be Wasaga Beach, Sandbanks, Grand Bend and Sauble Beach. Other great Canadian beaches are Boughton Island Beach, Pammure Island and Basin Head in PEI, Martinique beach and Heather Beach in Nova Scotia, Windmill Bight beach and Northside Beach and Pasadena Beach in Newfoundland, Shediac Beach in New Brunswick, Great whale River beach in Quebec, Grand Beach in Manitoba, and Long Beach in British Columbia.

Beaches are a great way to spend the day with your family. There's something for everyone to do. The kids can swim and make sand castles, while you can lie there enjoying the peace and quiet.

As you now should see, there are many great things to be had from visiting an Ontarian cottage. Being close to nature, paying less for more, and having that moment to yourself you've been longing for are only some of the great attributes to cottages. So remember to go on Rent Cottage Canada to find the cottage of your dreams.

Feb 6, 2009

Cottage Website's Search Engine Optimization

Every websites owner is interested in a targeted traffic.

There are several different methods to drive new visitors to your site.
1) Advertise with PPC (pay per click), CPM (banners, pay per impression), link inclusion etc. You'll definitely have to pay for this.
2) Web catalogs and directories submissions (free and not free)
3) Exchange links with other sites in your business area. Free, but not always useful
4) and there is free Search Engine submission

A typical site receives ~1/3 of their visitors from Search Engines, ~1/3 from links from other sites, and the last 1/3 are the site's existing visitors (or, direct links).

Cottage sites statistics are little different since the visitors are simply interested in a one-time use: to find a rental property and to book it. That's it. And maybe visit it again next year. So, the importance of Search Engines submission and optimization is significant.

This step is critical especially for brand new websites because you'll need to let the search engines know about your site. And the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an important thing to do to drive new visitors to the site.

Search Engine Optimization will help your site to stand up in the search engine list, and your goal must be to bring your site to at least to the Top 10 sites displayed by the keywords you target the site for.

We have started a new topic on our Message Board in Property Owners section where the property owners can submit their websites for a free SEO analysis.

Please visit our Canada Cottages Message Board Search Engine Optimization topic for more details.

Feb 4, 2009

#1 Cottage Finder Canada on Google and Yahoo!

We are pleased to announce that Rent Cottage Canada is now site #1 by words Cottage Finder Canada on Google and Yahoo! also #1 site by Rent Cottage in Canada on Yahoo!

Started only a month ago we have managed to get to the top of the Google and Yahoo! lists by some of the most searched keywords in the Canadian Cottage Renting industry.

Stay tuned, there is more to come!
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