We currently offer:

• Banner ads, either on the front page of Westborough.com or in selected internal sections. There will be three types of advertisements: Top Image Banners,  Side Images, and Text Links.  These run for a contracted period of time.
  
• Site-wide Article ads, also known as a "Business Profile" article.  These are just like standard articles you see on the site.  The intention is for these ads is to provide a somewhat in-depth business profile where you may describe your business and its offerings in some detail.  The business must be either owned by a local resident, or located in Westborough MA and the surrounding area.  Text up to 1000 words, up to 3 images, and links will be accepted in the article. These paid article ads will be "permanent" articles, and will remain on the site to be available for search engines.  That is, they will not expire.  There is a one-time fee for such ads, and a minor fee for subsequent updates.  Final text must meet the approval of Westborough.com:  you provide the initial copy, and there is no charge for editing your initial submission.  (Please note, the article will be labeled as a paid advertisement.)
  
  This option qualifies you for a free text link ad for the first year your article appears, if space is available.  If no text link space is available, you will be eligible for a limited-run banner ad if subscription space is available.
  
• "Limited-run" front page article ads. These are smaller articles up to 300 words, which show in the front page article stream, and run for up to one month.  After that, they are removed from the site.  These may be useful for short-term needs, such as to promote an event or a sale.   They may also be scheduled to run at a specific time in the future, through the assignment of a "start date" and a "finish date".  Note, these articles may indeed scroll down as other content is published to the front page.  This article, too, will be labeled as a paid advertisement.
  
• Text "link" ads. These offer two or three lines of text and a link to your site, or to a single page we will host for you if you wish.

Please note: as of March 28, 2010, we no longer offer discounted rates based on length of ad purchase time.  All ads will now be fixed per month, their value set near their formerly maximum discounted value of a 1-year purchase period.  Advertisers may choose how many months they may wish to run their ad.

Monthly advertising rates will not be pro-rated.  E.g. if you wish to run an monthly-based type of advertisement for just a few days to promote a special weekend offer, you will be charged for a full monthly rate.

Westborough.com reserves the right to continue running ads past their paid term, unless otherwise requested.  E.g. if you buy 3 months of banner advertising; we may choose to continue running your banner ad for months 4 and 5, at no obligation to you.  Yes, this does indeed constitute "free advertising"!  We will not bill you for such "expired" ads that we continue at our discretion.  Any expired ads may be removed at any time, as we choose.

In the case of time-sensitive ads, will will of course expend our best efforts to honor those with formally scheduled end-dates.  E.g., if a sale is advertised running up until July 4th, we will schedule the ad to expire on July 5th.  (If such a request had not already been made at the time of ad purchase.)

We will be happy to remove any ad upon written request from an authorized representative of the advertiser.

There are no refunds for paid advertisements.  Westborough.com, however, reserves the right to issue rebates to advertisers at any time for any reason.

Business and Organization Directory: Anyone may create a listing in the the business directory for free, subject to being located in, serving, or being owned by a resident in Westborough and the surrounding area.  Images such as an icon (80x80) and logo (300w x 250h) may also be added to your directory entry, free of charge.

If you would like to request more info or to purchase ads please send us a note: sales@westborough.com

All prices in US dollars

Looking forward to helping your business grow!

The Westborough.com Development Team

P.S.  Here's an image showing ad placement positions on the front page:

Note that we reserve the right to refuse advertisements for any reason.

Our goal is for all Westborough.com advertisements to be useful or helpful to the visitors to Westborough.com

Update history::

04-May-2013.  Reduced maximum number of possible advertisers for image and text banners, i.e. improved probabilities any individual advertiser will be seen.
07-Mar-2013.  Confirmed rates as staying the same at least until 1-July-2013. 
25-Apr-2011.  Updated rates good till Dec 2011.  Also expanded elegibility of business articles to those who benefit Westboronians, too! 
05-Apr-2010.  Clarified word limits on directory listings (300).  Added term "Business Profile" to also describe our "Site-wide Article" ad.
28-Mar-2010.  Removed discounted rate structure and clarified eligibility for listings.