Advertise with PolkTX
Reach Polk County residents where they already look things up. Free listings for everyone, paid placement when you want it.
Every Polk County business already has a free listing, and claiming it costs nothing. Everything on this page is optional on top of that. Claim your free listing first →
The ladder
Annual at the entry rungs, monthly above. Annual prepay is twelve months for the price of ten.
- Claimed listing — Free, always. Name, category, address, phone, hours, website, a map and a photo. You control all of it. Claim it →
- Enhanced listing — $69 / year. Six photos instead of one, a description in your own words, your services, your service area, and answers to the questions you actually get asked. A contact form so somebody can message you straight from the page, a dated offer you can run on it, and a monthly note telling you how many people opened the page and how many tapped Call. Hours and the owner-confirmed badge are free on every listing and stay that way. Claim your listing first — it is free. The claim form collects the description, service area and photos an enhanced listing is made of, so buying before that gets you a page that looks exactly like it did. Claim it →
- Featured listing — $111 for 3 months or $390 for the year. Top of your category, and your listing highlighted so it reads as the first answer rather than the first row.
Ask about it →3 months $111 $37 / month 6 months $210 $35 / month 12 months $390 $32.50 / month - Promotions — $15 to $45, one-off. A one-off push: a grand opening, a hiring boost, a featured event or a homepage spotlight. Priced per run, with nothing continuing afterwards. Ask about it →
- Section sponsor — $435 for 3 months or $1,490 for the year. Exclusive presenting placement on one section of the site.
Ask about it →3 months $435 $145 / month 6 months $810 $135 / month 12 months $1,490 $124 / month
Newsletter sponsor. One exclusive slot per issue, opening when the list reaches 500 subscribers. We'll publish the number here when it does.
The first issue goes out November 1; the sponsor slot opens at 500 subscribers.
Promotions
One-off. Each runs for a set length and then stops — there is nothing to cancel.
| Promotion | Price | Runs | What it is | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand opening spotlight | $45 | 2 weeks | Same homepage placement as the spotlight below, at the new-business rate. For businesses open less than 90 days. | Ask about it → |
| Homepage spotlight | $40 | 1 week | Your business on the PolkTX home page for a week. | Ask about it → |
| Now-hiring boost | $25 | 30 days | Pins one opening to the top of the jobs page for a month. Posting a job is free either way. Post the opening first — it is free — then buy the boost. Checkout asks which posting it is for. | Buy — $25 |
| Rental listing boost | $25 | 30 days | Pins one rental to the top of the rentals page for a month. Listing a rental is free either way. List the rental first — it is free — then ask about the boost. It runs the same 30 days a listing stays live before it needs re-confirming. | Ask about it → |
| Featured event | $15 | 1 week | Your event at the top of the events page in the week before it happens. Submit the event first — it is free — then buy the feature. Checkout asks which event it is for. | Buy — $15 |
| Garage sale bump | $10 | Pins your sale to the top of the garage sale board for the week before it happens. Listing is free either way. | Ask about it → |
Card payment through Stripe. Nothing is stored on this site — PolkTX never sees a card number.
Section sponsorships
One sponsor per section, monthly, exclusive.
Seven sections can carry a presenting sponsor:
- Directory
- What's Coming
- Sports
- Events
- Lake Livingston
- Meetings & Officials
- Jobs
A section that has not been sold shows nothing — no placeholder and no empty slot. The sponsor appears the day the sponsorship starts.
Terms
- An enhanced listing renews yearly at $69 until you cancel. Cancel any time — from the link in your receipt, or by telling us — and it runs to the end of the period you have already paid for. Nothing is charged after that.
- Annual prepay is twelve months for the price of ten.
- Featured listing and section sponsorship start at three months. Shorter runs are the one-off promotions.
- Promotions run from the date they go live, usually within two to three business days of payment.
- No prorated refunds on one-off promotions, but tell us and we'll pull it.
What we do not sell
The Elections section is never sponsored. Sponsorship and featured placement never affect which businesses are listed or how search ranks them, and we say so on every page.
Not sure which one fits?
Most businesses start with a free claimed listing and add enhanced or featured later once they see what the directory sends them. There's no pressure and no contract on the annual tiers beyond the year you buy.