Instant Ads from £2.50
No design required — make your own text ads. Subject to approval.
- AdvertisementYour headline will appear here
A short line about your offer or business
Why Secret Carshalton?
- Website on average has 6,000–40,000* passionate locals visiting each month
- A popular local site: see what people say
* 40,000 from server stats, 6,000 from Google Analytics. Bots make traffic hard to measure, so the true figure is probably in between.
Your own text ad, live in minutes
A simple, low-cost way to promote your business, event or service. Write it yourself, choose your dates, and we'll approve it.
Text Ads are for promotions, sales and announcements — not job vacancies or ongoing business listings.
Standard Text Ad
A simple, low-cost way to promote your business, event or service.
- Create your own text advert
- No design required
- Sidebar placement
- Goes live as soon as you pay
- Views are not guaranteed
Premium Text Ad
More prominent placement for just 50p more.
- Create your own text advert
- No design required
- Sidebar placement
- Additional placement within articles and features
- Goes live as soon as you pay
- Views are not guaranteed
Free to join — create an account if you don't have one.
Featured: key reach figures
- Website on average has 6,000–40,000* passionate locals visiting each month
- Your logo in front of over 8,000 local Instagram followers
- Over 13,500 Facebook page followers
- A super-engaged social audience, with lots of comments and shares
- Your logo sometimes appears at the end of our social reels, which average 30,000–100,000 views
- A popular local site: see what people say
* 40,000 from server stats, 6,000 from Google Analytics. Bots make traffic hard to measure, so the true figure is probably in between.
Put your business in front of Carshalton
A proper directory listing with photos, map and links. Add Boost for a text ad and banner, or a Super Boost month for a full write-up from the Secret Carshalton team.
For 12 months
- Featured directory listing
- Prominent exposure within your category
- Category image displayed across the site
- Up to 3 photos
- Title, description & tagline
- Website, address, social links & map
For 6 months
- Featured directory listing
- Prominent exposure within your category
- Category image displayed across the site
- Up to 3 photos
- Title, description & tagline
- Website, address, social links & map
One month, no commitment
- Featured directory listing
- Prominent exposure within your category
- Category image displayed across the site
- Up to 3 photos
- Title, description & tagline
- Website, address, social links & map
Super Boost
A one-off month of full promotion — a launch, an anniversary, Christmas. Tick it on any plan above, or add it later from your dashboard.
- Written article about your business, organisation or event
- Social media post promoting the article
- One Premium Text Ad for the month
- Designed banner displayed across the site
£100 if you’re already on Boost
Super Boost includes a post on our Facebook and Instagram — we reach 13.5k on Facebook, 8k on Instagram, with popular stories reaching 50k+ views.
Just want to be listed? Standard listing, £2.50/year →
A boost when it matters
Listing events and community groups stays free. Upgrade when you want more people to see it.
Pinned Event
Give your event extra visibility when it matters most.
- Your event pinned to the top of Events
- In the rotating events highlight on the homepage
- Ideal for events that need an extra boost
- Pin one date or several
Free listing — pin it for £5 per date from your dashboard once it's live.
Job Post
Priced by the job's hourly rate (a yearly salary at 37.5 hours a week).
- Job advertised for 7 days
- Placed at the top of the jobs feed
- Visible for the full 7-day period
- Automatic expiry — no need to remember to remove it
Community Group Promotion
A low-cost way for local groups to promote themselves to the Secret Carshalton community.
- Featured placement within the Community section
- Group name and description
- Photo or group image
- Website, Facebook or other social link
- More visibility than a standard community listing
- 30-day promotion
Add our badge to your website — it links straight to Secret Carshalton, so people can find you here, and it helps more locals discover what's on.
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<a href="https://www.secretcarshalton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.secretcarshalton.com/listed-on-secret-carshalton.png" alt="Listed on Secret Carshalton" width="300" height="74"></a>* Exposure figures are estimates based on typical Secret Carshalton traffic and are not guaranteed. Actual exposure may vary depending on website traffic, content, seasonality and other factors.
