Free SMS text message service has been introduced for all our customers, you can now get text messages sent to your mobile when an enquiry or booking is received. for existing user just log into your simplygites account and turn on the sms option.
We have further increased our visilibilty out on search engines please see our latest Ranking Report 22nd June 2007
Simply Gites in March 2007 had a record number of page hits (26,412)
The record month has in-turn seen a significant increase in the number of individual property hits, enquiries and bookings. 
We have been working incredibly hard in the background to increase the exposure of our member’s properties to all major search engines. We have devised an automated mechanism that publishes each site within SimplyGites to over 180,000 search engines. We have found it takes about 70days for each site to be fully indexed, which is one of the reasons for giving our members 90days free.
SimplyGites website is also moving up the league table for example within the 2nd most popular search engine in the world MSN.com SimplyGites is ranked very highly for the following keywords.
French Gites – Ranking 1st
Rent a gite – Ranking 1st
Gites – Ranking 2nd
Gite Management - Ranking 4th
There are obviously 100’s of other keywords for finding SimplyGites, also not forgetting many individual keywords we take from our members sites, these combined are submitted and indexed on a precise schedule to over 180,000 search engines around the world, thus giving maximum exposure to all our members and customers.
February the SimplyGites.com team launched SimplyGites.co.uk, this was deemed necessary to maximise UK only search engine returns.
SimplyGites Stats pack installed for all our members. SimplyGites in the background monitors all the searches, page hits, enquires and bookings, these figures are then summated every night to give the property owner a series of graphical reports on how there site is performing over specified periods.
Simple by name simple by nature - Simply Gites Celebrates Launch Of The Most Advanced French Property Rentals Website
Simplygites.com, a brand new property rental website, was launched this month providing owners of French property the most advanced rental management tools ever.
Launching such a site in a competitive marketplace is a brave move which is why the website had to have that je ne sais quoi.
The philosophy of Simply Gites is very straightforward. Simple by name, simple by nature. To provide owners of properties in France with the most advanced but easy to use tools to manage their property bookings via the web. And it could cost property owners nothing…
…From creating a homepage allowing owners to list as many properties as they wish to allowing the creation of an availability calendar which updates itself in real time. And with the addition of tools to allow the owners to take payments directly from holiday makers suddenly Gite owners have some very sophisticated technology at their fingertips. And unprecedented numbers of visitors prove there must be something in it.
Over 3,000 visitors in it’s first couple of weeks demonstrate a demand for properties in France.
David Leese co-founder of Simply Gites said. “A lot of hard work has gone into creating this product and it’s great to see our efforts are paying of so quickly. As property owners in France ourselves our management team have long felt there has been a gap in the market for something as advanced as Simply Gites yet making it easy to use has been our challenge.
We now feel we have a product which even property owners with little or no knowledge of the Internet will be comfortable using. And the thousands of owners of French property can easily have a whole range of benefits in managing the rental of their property most importantly for a low fee with no hidden costs.
We also have our team of web experts working away to ensure all of the major search engines find us when people are looking for holiday Gites and properties. Quite simply everything we do is aimed at getting the most visibility for our property owners.
And we say it could cost nothing because in addition to our free introductory period, as our price is so low, a single booking would more than cover the cost which means the product pays for itself many times over.”
To celebrate their launch Simply Gites are offering free accounts to owners of properties in France for a no obligation period of 3 months. After this time should property owners wish to continue an annual fee of just £100 allows full access to all the benefits of the product ad no hidden costs for extra photos, or adding further properties.
