Local Advertising
Ocean City Guide
oceancityguide.com
The “Ocean City Guide” showcases the best of Ocean City on the Web. We provide a full-scale, dynamic tour of OC for visitors, businesses and local residents. Our guide specializes in providing user-friendly navigation tools that associate advertisers with their GPS coordinates and empower users to search for real estate, hotels, restaurants, goods and services. The site is loaded with interactive guides that include “Where to Stay”, “Where to Eat”, “Where to Shop” and “What to Do”. Every page of the site cross-promotes advertisers using a unique visual strategy and

collateral mapping technologies. The site is hard to leave. Each section encourages viewers to click for more!

The Ocean City Guide offers a photographic tour of OC that includes virtual tours, incredible still snapshots and lush aerial photography.  Our guests can read and print travel tips from informative categories such as: Boating and Fishing, Assateague Island, the Beach & Boardwalk, Ocean City Nightlife and other areas of interest. Users can plan their entire vacation interactively or research a particular item in Ocean City.  The Guide includes listings for every business and government organization in the area - it is OC’s own virtual phone book!

Advertisers in The Guide become an immediate part of the tour experience.  The Guide serves its advertisers by pushing participants to the top, while the entire site remains subtle, helpful and non-aggressive. Advertiser content is mixed into informational content and randomly generated on every single page. With a mixture of photos and article-style

advertising, your business will be a part of an enjoyable, informative experience and not an obvious ad that viewers customarily ignore.  Viewers will see you associated with

the information they desire.

Purchasing a guide for your business jumps you to the highest level of visibility on a site that carries enormous exposure.  As a paid advertiser, you leap above the general listings to portray full descriptions of your business,

promotional photos, GPS map integration, links to your

home web site, virtual tours, videos—a wealth of material! 

And you will also have the ability to promote your

special events on the Ocean City calendar.

The guide eclipses other OC sites in search engine rankings. With over 12 Million visitors a year and growing, having your business on the guide provides you with instant visibility.  Users have immediate access to your homepage that may otherwise be lost in the shuffle of competitive searches. The Ocean City Guide holds the  #1 position much of the time on the major search engines. Our rankings have held high marks for over 10 years and continue to climb.

Give it a shot: type in key phrases like “Ocean City Maryland”, “Ocean City Restaurants”, or

“Ocean City Real Estate”. Combine “Ocean City” or “Ocean City Maryland” with any other hot topic and see where The Ocean City Guide stands. You won’t be disappointed!

Our real content is constantly maintained and updated with fresh material, including what’s new in OC. Our virtual tours and aerial shots grow more captivating every day as our photographers showcase the geography and lifestyles of the island. Our site gets more new hits, and captures more repeat visitors by favoring vibrancy and continuing to add new features.  And our advertisers take part in this positive, and potentially profitable marketing experience for their businesses.