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Insurance board · November 2026

Ontario

Canada
Searches tracked
19
AI Overview rate
78.9%
Sources per answer
2.8
Locator Canada

Insurance in Ontario: who ranks, and who gets cited

Insurance for Nonprofits leads the organic results in Ontario. Federated Insurance Canada is cited most in AI answers. They are different brands, which is true in most geographies we measure. An AI Overview appeared on 78.9% of the 19 searches tracked here, citing an average of 2.8 sources.

Discipline 01 · Best insurance SEO Insurance for Nonprofits Organic visibility 100 / 100
Discipline 02 · Best insurance GEO Federated Insurance Canada Cited in 25% of carrier citations
Discipline 03 · Best local SEO Lawrie Insurance Group 11.3% of map slots across 4 metros

Organic visibility

Indexed to the Ontario leader
Organic visibility by carrier in Ontario, specialty insurance, November 2026
#CarrierVisibility index
01 Insurance for Nonprofits 100
02 Intact 100
03 Federated Insurance Canada 39.3
04 Foxquilt 33.3
05 GEICO 25
06 Definity 14.3
07 Thimble 14.3

AI citation share

Share of carrier citations
Share of AI Overview citations by carrier in Ontario, specialty insurance, November 2026
#CarrierShare of carrier citations
01 Federated Insurance Canada 25%
02 Intact 25%
03 Progressive Commercial 25%
04 Thimble 25%

Who Google cites

All sources, not only carriers
Types of source cited in AI Overviews in Ontario, specialty insurance, November 2026
#Source typeShare of citations
01 unknown 40.5%
02 agency 23.8%
03 aggregator 11.9%
04 carrier 9.5%
05 association 4.8%
06 social 4.8%
07 forum 2.4%
08 publisher 2.4%

Named in the answer

Mentions, not citations
Carriers named in AI Overview text in Ontario, specialty insurance, November 2026
#CarrierShare of mentions
01 Intact 33.3%
02 Aviva Canada 11.1%
03 Desjardins 11.1%
04 Liberty Mutual 11.1%
05 Thimble 11.1%
06 Travelers 11.1%
07 Foxquilt 11.1%

Being described in the answer and being cited as a source are different things.

What these searches return

By intent, 19 searches
AI Overview presence by search intent in Ontario, November 2026
Search intentReturned an AI Overview
unclassified 78.9%
Ontario · Auto · 19 captures · Jul 2026

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Local pack by metro

4 metros measured in Ontario
Local pack leader in each Ontario metro, November 2026
#MetroLeading business Share of slotsBusinessesRating
01 Ottawa Halpenny Insurance Brokers Ltd. 29.7% 9 4.9
02 Hamilton Lawrie Insurance Group 33.3% 6 4.8
03 Mississauga My Hunter 30.3% 9 4.9
04 Toronto — — 0 —

Near-me searches are measured per metro, not per province. Each metro has its own board.

Every source the AI cites

36 domains · not only insurers

The citation table above lists insurers only. This one lists everything the answer actually pointed at, which is a different picture: in Ontario, insurers are 9.5% of cited sources and comparison sites are 11.9%.

Every domain cited in AI answers for Ontario, November 2026
#SourceType Share of citations
01 Western Financial Group
westernfinancialgroup.ca
Agencies
9.5%
02 ACERA
acera.ca
Associations
4.8%
03 Facebook
facebook.com
Social
4.8%
04 Zensurance
zensurance.com
Comparison sites
4.8%
05 ahainsurance.ca
ahainsurance.ca
unknown
2.4%
06 Aligned Insurance
alignedinsurance.com
Agencies
2.4%
07 Assure Childcare
assurechildcare.com
Comparison sites
2.4%
08 aviva.ca
aviva.ca
unknown
2.4%
09 bluecloudcpa.com
bluecloudcpa.com
unknown
2.4%
10 businessinsuranceprincegeorge.ca
businessinsuranceprincegeorge.ca
unknown
2.4%
11 cansure.com
cansure.com
unknown
2.4%
12 commercialinsurancemontreal.ca
commercialinsurancemontreal.ca
unknown
2.4%
13 commercialinsurancewinnipeg.ca
commercialinsurancewinnipeg.ca
unknown
2.4%
14 Duliban Insurance
dulibaninsurance.com
Agencies
2.4%
15 Federated Insurance Canada
federated.ca
Insurers
2.4%
16 Certain
getcertain.ca
Comparison sites
2.4%
17 hansonryan.com
hansonryan.com
unknown
2.4%
18 harvardwestern.com
harvardwestern.com
unknown
2.4%
19 HUB International
hubinternational.com
Agencies
2.4%
20 InSocial RA
insocialra.com
unknown
2.4%
21 Intact
intact.ca
Insurers
2.4%
22 keystoneins.ca
keystoneins.ca
unknown
2.4%
23 LowestRates
lowestrates.ca
Comparison sites
2.4%
24 marathoninsurance.ca
marathoninsurance.ca
unknown
2.4%
25 McLean & Dickey
mcleananddickey.com
Agencies
2.4%
26 multirisk.ca
multirisk.ca
unknown
2.4%
27 northeastins.com
northeastins.com
unknown
2.4%
28 Progressive Commercial
progressivecommercial.com
Insurers
2.4%
29 Reddit
reddit.com
Forums
2.4%
30 resources.charityvillage.com
resources.charityvillage.com
unknown
2.4%
31 rideauinsurance.com
rideauinsurance.com
unknown
2.4%
32 theonn.ca
theonn.ca
unknown
2.4%
33 Thimble
thimble.com
Insurers
2.4%
34 Trucking Insurance Services
truckinginsuranceservices.com
Agencies
2.4%
35 Turf Magazine
turfmagazine.com
Publishers
2.4%
36 Westland Insurance
westlandinsurance.ca
Agencies
2.4%

Types are assigned from a published list. A source we cannot classify with confidence is left unclassified rather than guessed at.

Where this board sits

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What is on this page position-weighted organic visibility indexed to the Ontario leader, share of sources cited in AI Overviews, share of answers naming a carrier, and Local Pack presence. The first three use the same 19 searches captured November 2026. Local Pack comes from a separate set of near-me searches measured per metro, joined here.

Never combined the disciplines are reported separately and are not summed. A blended score would hide the only finding that matters, which is where they disagree.

Coverage Google AI Overviews only. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are separate surfaces and are not measured.