Advertise on Honest Crete

Who reads it. People planning a trip to Crete or already on the island, reading in English, German, Greek and French, and people researching buying a home here. Most arrive from Google, searching for a specific place or a practical question.

What you can buy. A labelled placement in one of three formats — a wide banner, a box (an image or a short silent video) or a card with a picture and text — on the home page, the guide lists, the area and category pages, inside and at the end of the travel guides, and in the buying section. You can take one area (Chania, Rethymno, east Crete and so on), one kind of guide (beaches, day trips, villages, where to stay and so on), or the whole site.

Sizes. Banner: 1940×500 pixels, with an optional 1200×600 version for phones. Box: square, 1080×1080, or upright, 720×1280; upright boxes appear only at the end of a page, never under a title. Card: a 1200×675 picture with a headline and a line of text. Images or silent MP4 video, up to 3 MB.

What you cannot buy. A mention, a review, a kinder word or a link inside a guide. The guides on this site name no business, and that does not change for advertisers. Every placement is marked as an advertisement in the reader’s language and links out as sponsored.

No tracking. Placements are plain files, with no ad networks, no profiles and no cookies. A view is counted when at least half of the placement has been on screen for a second, and a click when someone follows it, with the time, the creative and the page, and nothing about the reader. You get your views and clicks every month.

Audience figures. Ask and we send the last 30 days from Google Analytics and Search Console, with visits, countries, languages and the pages your placement would sit on. We do not publish them here, because they change every week.

What we turn down. Anything we would not recommend to a friend visiting Crete, and anyone selling property without a licence.

How to ask. Use the form below, or email us, with the area or kind of guide you want, the months, and what you would like to run. Prices are per month and depend on the placement; we quote once we have seen what you want to run.