Advertising on France For Families

Advertising on France For Families

Why advertise on France For Families? France For Families is a unique website - it is a free online travel guide offering advice on the best of France. It is targeted at families planning to holiday there, although it is equally applicable to singles and couples as well. The advice given is based on our personal experience of holidaying and travelling there over a period of more than 20 years.

France For Families has a high ranking on major search engines. For example, try searching for the very popular "Château Castlenaud" in Google and see what you find on the first page! Or search for "France For Families" in Yahoo! We are now also returning good search results in Google for gites (Dorodogne Gites, Loire Gites....). Since the website's launch in April 2004 we have already attracted several hundred thousand unique visitors... our daily average has now climbed to around 2000 visitors per day at the time of writing this page. See our news page for latest information.

The website is not dormant either. We are continually adding new content so you can be assured of return traffic time and again. If you are interested in more information, please send us an email.

What advertising options are available?

1. Free gite link from regional map - send us details of your gite/gites (with a description up to 250 characters long, including spaces) and we will include a link to your external website at no charge. Please send your details via email.

2. Featured gite advert on regional gites pages - included a photo 160 x 120 plus a 25 word description and a link to your gite's website. Cost is just £25 per annum. Please send your details via email.

3. B and B advert on France For Families' Chambres d'Hôtes page - custom design possible to emphasise your key features. The cost is £30 per annum. Please send your details via email.

4. Home Page Advert - these are the most expensive option but assure you the highest visibility and "click-throughs". Due to the limited space available and because each advert is custom designed to your needs, we charge £250 per annum for adverts on the Home Page. For further details of the options available on our home page, please send us your request via email.

5. If you do not have your own website, France For Families can host a page about your gite or B and B on your behalf (Including 4 photos 160 x 120 pixels, plus unlimited words). You can opt to add a photo library of 8 additional photos plus unlimited words. For further information, please send us an email.

France For Families can also provide customised advertising which may include, for example, adverts on our website, specific content relating to a service you may provide, newsletter content etc. If you have a specific requirement not covered above, please let us know via email. Thanks!

Please note - we make no charge for "set up" costs!

Feedback from existing advertisers

We believe the best recommendations are those of existing advertisers. Here are some comments we've received recently:

Mr TF, Provence: Just thought you would like to know you are now firmly in our no 1 spot for referrals. 19 click throughs today from 10 IP addresses. Next is our own site from the search engines then....

Mrs QS, Dordogne: Since May this year we advertise on your site. We have a good number of visits on our website thanks to France for Families. 2007 was so far a good year and we already received quite some bookings for 2008.

Mrs TS, Languedoc: Yes we definitely want to renew please ASAP! We are sold out for July and August with 6 families coming each week so we are delighted. June has some space left (as does September but we’ll deal with that later!) so that is what we need to promote. Great search engine results – well done to all your team.

Dordogne property owners may like to consider an additional advert on the Vakantie Perigord website to attract Dutch and Flemish visitors as well. Vakantie Perigord claim 75,000 visitors per annum. For further information click on the link opposite (site is in Dutch).

What are France For Families' advertising terms and conditions?

Terms and Conditions for General Advertising:

1. Layout and copy on the website. France For Families Limited (“the Company”) reserves the right to determine the final design, layout and functionality of the website. The Company reserves the right, at its discretion to edit copy or amend layouts or photographs should the Company consider it necessary. The Company does not accept liability for any loss or damage resulting from the design or positioning of the advertisements or changes to the copy or photographs submitted by the advertiser or for errors or omissions. The Company reserves the right to refuse hypertext links to, or addresses of, other web sites from advertisers’ pages, and to remove links or web addresses without notice at its sole discretion.

2. Accuracy of information. The Company cannot accept legal responsibility for the accuracy of the advertisements, or any alleged breaches of contract on an advertiser’s part. The Advertiser is responsible for updating or correcting their details and for keeping the availability of their property or properties accurate and up to date. The advertiser indemnifies the Company in the event of any claim being brought against it resulting from inaccurate advertisements.

3. Our liability. The Company does not warrant that the operation of the website will be uninterrupted or error free. In no event will the Company be liable to the advertiser for any direct or indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of goodwill or damage, however caused, or sustained.

4. Copyright. It is the advertiser’s responsibility to obtain reproduction permission for all photographic and other material used in their advertisements. The advertiser warrants that they are the owner of the copyright in such material or are authorised by the owner thereof to grant to the Company the rights therein contained. The advertiser indemnifies the Company against any action brought for breach of copyright from the use of such material supplied by the advertiser. The Company shall be entitled to reproduce part or whole of any photographic material supplied by the advertiser. The Company cannot be held responsible for any infringement of copyright laws resulting from material supplied by the advertisers. The Company will make every effort to safeguard all materials supplied and return them, if required, but the Company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage, however caused, or sustained.

5. Termination of advertising. If advertisers wish to remove their advertisement from the website before the end of the subscription period, this will be done, but no refunds will be payable. The Company reserves the right to refuse any advertisement without explanation and does not accept liability for any loss or damage in so doing. If the Company receives any complaints against an advertisement, then the Company reserves the right to remove the advertisement or advertisements without notice. In the event that the Company decides to remove the advertisement, a refund may be payable on a pro-rata basis for the remainder of the contract period at the discretion of the Company.

6. Payment. Payment for advertising must be in sterling by cheque drawn on a UK bank and must be cleared before the advertisement will be published. The contracted advertising period will be deemed to have commenced from the date of publication.

7. Governing law. These terms and conditions together with your completed and duly signed booking form constitute your contract with France for Families Ltd and shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England, notwithstanding the jurisdiction of where you are based and you irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms and Conditions and that the place of performance shall be England.

Terms and Conditions for Advertisers of Properties for Rent or Sale:

1. Layout and copy on the website. France For Families Limited (“The Company”) reserves the right to determine the final design, layout and functionality of the website. The Company reserves the right, at its discretion to edit copy or amend layouts or photographs should the Company consider it necessary. The Company does not accept liability for any loss or damage resulting from the design or positioning of the properties or changes to the copy or photographs submitted by the advertiser or for errors or omissions. The Company reserves the right to refuse hypertext links to, or addresses of, other web sites from advertisers’ pages, and to remove links or web addresses without notice at its sole discretion.

5. Substitution of properties. An advertisement relates to a specific property and may not be substituted for another property.

6. Advertising more than one property. Each advertisement displays one unit for rental or sale only. If a property has more than one unit on the same site then additional advertisements are purchased.

7. Termination of advertising. If advertisers wish to remove their advertisement from the website before the end of the contracted period, this will be done, but no refunds will be payable. The Company reserves the right to refuse any advertisement without explanation and does not accept liability for any loss or damage in so doing. If the Company receives any complaints relating to an advertisers property, then the Company reserves the right to remove the advertisement or advertisements without notice. In the event that the Company decides to remove the advertisement with or without cause, a refund may be payable on a pro-rata basis for the remainder of the contract period at the discretion of the Company.

8. Payment. Payment for advertising must be in Sterling by cheque drawn on a UK bank and must be cleared before the advertisement will be published. The contracted advertising period will be deemed to have commenced from the date of publication.

9.Governing law. These terms and conditions together with your completed and duly signed booking form constitute your contract with France for Families Ltd and shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England, notwithstanding the jurisdiction of where you are based and you irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms and Conditions and that the place of performance shall be England.