• A personal Candidate Profile which includes your photo, biography and other relevant information.  There will also be a link to your official website if applicable.  No other advertising will appear on your profile page.

• Your name, photo and party affiliation in our Elections Guide on the appropriate candidate page with a link to your on-line profile;

• A banner that rotates throughout the News, Classifieds, Forums and other key sections within somd.com (price includes creating one 468x60 banner or you can provide up to 3 banners of your own design);

• You will have access to your banner impressions and clicks statistics via the web;

• Your will appear randomly in our Featured Sponsor/Candidate Widget that displays in a prominent location in our very popular Headline News sections and our comprehensive search engine.

• Your website will be indexed by our search engine thus making the information on your site available to the users of our popular search engine.

• You can post your fund raisers, rallies, and other political engagements in our Elections Calendar (can be used by any candidate or political group at no charge).

• You will receive the monthly somd.com client newsletter;

• Package Cost:  $600 for the entire campaign all the way through the general election in November

• You also have the option, for an extra charge, of an exclusive banner on the front page of Southern Maryland Online.  Cost is $300/month for the top banner, $200/month for the middle banner and $200/month for one of the left-hand buttons.  Front page banners are booked on a first come/first serve basis so if you want it, reserve ASAP!

• All candidates are able to respond to reader's questions and issues in our Elections Forum.

One candidate had this to say about his success with advertising on somd.com:

"Just wanted to drop you a line to tell you again how pleased I am with the number of views on the banner and clicks on my website.  This is by far the best advertising I've invested in."

In May of 2006 we served 7,325,458 pages of information about the Southern Maryland region to 129,816 unique visitors.