Ontario Cottages welcomes you to this site! If you are looking for a cottage to rent, buy or sell in Ontario this is the right spot. Simply click on the top buttons for the listings complete with a search feature, mostly private listings by cottage owners or cottage resorts. The banners represent advertisers, private cottages, resorts, cottage related activities like houseboat rentals and on occasion a real estate agent or agency finds it's way here.
RENT or BUY a private Ontario Cottage or vacation property, click on either of the "Rent or Buy" buttons to start your Ontario Cottages Search!
Post your Ontario Cottage or vacation property for rent or sale, click on the "Post" button or the "Add" button! Agents select "advertising".
Attractions will lead you to activities, events, and points of interest that selected areas offer vacationers within Ontario Cottage Country.
Pricing for Cottage and Resort Owners: advertise on Ontario Cottages by selecting the pricing button to see the details and rates for the listing service and for banner advertising or click here.
Advertising for Real Estate Agents & Other Listing Services: The static business ads can be viewed by over 150,000 targeted cottage industry clients per year. These banners come up in rotation and stay in place during the time the page is on the clients computer. There are a maximum of 45 ads available and with 150,000 distinct clients using an average of 5.2 pages it virtually assures you of 150,000 potential views for your banner. For the world wise agent there are 4 animated banner ads available at the top of the page. click here

 











Cottage listed on 01/14/08 and this was received on 02/27/08. "... Hi Deb, All is great...my cottage has been rented out by a couple from Toronto for the whole season. YAHOO... I am still getting lots of emails and would like the renters to know that its not available before they get their hopes up. Thanks, ..." another cottage removed till next year

Another cottager called on May 12. They listed their cottage on 02/06/08 and were filled up before the end of April. The only place they advertises is here, Ontario Cottages! Cheap is not a bargain if your cottage doesn't fill for the season!

If you're listed here and don't get numerous requests per week or no bookings then you better check your rates, pictures and/or description for something is wrong as this site works. As our stats grow, so should yours!
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From Ontario Cottage Clients:

... I am happy to inform you that I have just received notice that the offer made on my cottage is complete, and signed by both parties. I received a full price offer, and am very content with the whole affair.
... Thank-you so much for your service. I will happily recommend it to anyone. I have no complaints at all. It suited my needs and my method of conducting my affairs. I'm a happy camper!
... Ontario Cottages filled our property by June 1
... our cottages are listed on multiple services and over 90% of bookings come from the Ontario Cottages site.
... I only listed on Ontario Cottages for six weeks ago and already +50% of my bookings come from here. Interestingly our most expensive referrer has generated no leads this year.
... Ontario Cottages filled the cottage in the first two months.
... I was advertising elsewhere but now Ontario Cottages is my exclusive media.
... and more!


Ontario Cottages Statistics Summary - 1 Week of 2006 vs 2008. We understand that many providers are experiencing less traffic claiming that it's indicative of the whole industry.
Below are our Stats for the same period over the past 2 years!
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04/15/06
04/24/08
% Change
Distinct Hosts 2,031 2,514 + 24%
Distinct files requested 1,861 2,350 + 27%
Redirected Requests 2,351 3,636 + 55%
24% more distinct hosts visit us per week, 27% more distinct files are being requested and 55% more requests are redirected to our banner users. The site has been running since 1997 and has consistantly seen growth and has had a 114 subtle updates. Our philosphy is simple, fair and consistant! We will not give advantage to one owner over another and we will not compormise consistancy; no refunds, most updates are chargeable & returning listings require the set-up charge. Check your other listings to determine how your property is displayed relative this site. Ask for their site stats and most will give you hits; a useless inflated number!

The facts we feel count for us and why:

1. Distinct Hosts - That's our actual visitors per week but does not include those coming to us from proxy servers.
2. Successful request for pages. How deep does the visitor go? For example 3,535 distinct hosts requesting 18,524 pages is equal to the average visitor viewing 5.2 pages. This tells us the site is being used and visitors are going all the way through.
3. Distinct files requested. This tells how many files(pages) are actually being used. Divide this into the page requests and you can see that the average page is requested at least 6.1 times per week. Using deeper statistics we know that each listings detail page is viewed on average approximately 60 times per week.
This fact is the main reason our clients are successful!
4. For those who like high numbers you can see that we receive approximately 27,411,490 hits per year (based on this weeks numbers). The actual figure is higher as we are not yet in our peak. Regardless to us anyone who sells based on the idea of hits in an other life sold snake oil remedies. 525,340 hits / 18,524 pages = 28 objects per page!
A meaningless statistic: more objects on your page = more hits