Advertise on the Communities Directory

We offer communities the opportunity to promote their community by advertising on our site (Ads for products or non-community-related services are discouraged). Ads are placed on the right side of most pages of directory.ic.org excepting those showing a single community's listing or images. We also provide users with a list of all communities advertising on our site.

Ads are priced at $40 per quarter (3 months) or $125 per year. (In the future ads may be priced per view or per click.) FIC Members receive a special 40% discount on these ads (subject to change at any time).

To place an ad, your community must have a listing on our site (click here to create a listing). As you are editing your listing there is a toolbar on the right hand side with links to various editing pages. The last one is a link to "Paid Ads" which provides a form for you to fill out to create your ad.

Ads are 4 lines. The first is the community's name. The other three are text you provide with up to 25 characters for each line including spaces and punctuation.

Once you are finished with your ad, click the "Save & Pay" button and you will be taken to our online store to pay for your ad. Your ad will not be displayed until you pay, but should appear immediately after you complete your checkout. If you click the "Save" button your ad text will be saved but it will not be displayed until you have paid for your ad.

All ads will link to a communities listing page. Each community is allowed one ad and all ads are rotated through equally and randomly for the duration of their contract.

We reserve the right to remove or edit ads at our discretion.