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Sponsor The Great Lakes Gleaner
202 real Michigan guides, an interactive map for every one of them, and readers who are actively planning a trip — not scrolling past. Three ways to put your business in front of them.
Why Sponsor Here
Readers with real intent, not just traffic
Every placement is clearly labeled "Sponsored" — we don't do disguised native ads, and neither should you have to explain one to your customers.
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202 guides, statewide
Town-by-town coverage across every region of Michigan, plus interactive lighthouse and road-trip maps — readers land here already deciding where to go.
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Real targeting, not guesswork
Our ad platform weights placements by region and interest tag, so a Keweenaw outfitter's ad actually reaches U.P.-bound readers, not everyone equally.
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Honest reporting
Real impression and click tracking, no vanity numbers. You'll see what a placement actually did, every month.
Base
$800/mo
Standard placements, sitewide
- Sidebar + footer placement rotating across all 202+ guides
- One grid-card takeover slot on the Destinations catalog, targeted to your region
- Listed in our homepage Michigan Partners section
- Monthly impressions & click report
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Affiliate
$1,500/mo
Adds content & priority targeting
- Everything in Base
- In-article placement — inside the article body itself, our highest-engagement slot
- Priority regional targeting weighted to your area and matching interest tags
- One custom-written article per quarter — built around your town or business and your own target keywords, published as a permanent guide
Sponsor
$2,500/mo
Top billing, monthly content
- Everything in Affiliate
- Header bar placement — the slot every visitor sees first, on every page
- A custom-written article every month, full editorial depth with real sourced photography, built to your SEO brief
- Top billing + your logo (not just a wordmark) on the homepage
- One contextual link from an existing, already-published guide relevant to your business — clearly disclosed, never hidden
- A quarterly 30-minute call to review performance and retarget
How we handle sponsored content: every placement is labeled "Sponsored," and any paid link we place carries a
rel="sponsored" tag per Google's own guidelines for paid links — the same disclosure standard we already hold ourselves to for our existing partners. A custom article is written to our normal editorial standard (real, verified facts, real sourced photography) with your business named and linked, not a thinly disguised ad. We reserve the right to decline a sponsor whose business or claims we can't stand behind.