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Advertise on RPLS.com
Put your brand alongside the conversation surveyors trust, every single day.
Reach the people who actually buy what you sell — working land surveyors.
RPLS.com is where the surveying profession gathers to talk shop. If you sell to surveyors, your customers are already here, every day.
A small audience made entirely of the right people
We could quote you a big traffic number. We’d rather tell you the truth: almost everyone here is a working land surveyor, and they don’t just glance and leave.
- 8,000+ engaged surveyors every month — roughly 100,000 over a year
- Over 30 minutes of engaged time each — they read, post, and come back
- 16,000+ registered members — and still growing
- 50,000+ discussions and 590,000+ posts — built over 16 years
- 100% your target market — no impressions wasted on people who’ll never spec a total station
Independent and surveyor-run since 2010, continuing a community that began in 1996. No corporate owner, no ad network, no algorithmic guesswork — just a direct line to the profession.
Who belongs here
Instrument and equipment makers, software and data companies, training and continuing-education providers, recruiters and firms hiring crews, and the services that keep surveyors working. Your customers trust this place — and a little of that trust carries over to the brands they see alongside the conversation.
How it works
Start with a Vendor Membership, then add display advertising only if and where you want it. No tiers to decode — pick a base, bolt on the zones that fit your goals.
Pricing at a glance
- Base membership — $95/month
- Base + one zone — $170/month
- Base + two zones — $245/month
- Base + all three zones — $295/month (save $25)
If you’d like us to create or resize your graphics, there’s a one-time $250 design fee — footer logos are always free.
Vendor Membership
$95/month
Your foundation in the community — and your first ad. Here are the features included in the base price:
- Your own Vendor Forum — post announcements, sales, and press releases. Members can read and reply, but only you start topics. Your posts also surface in the main Recent Posts feed and broadcast to our Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, and BlueSky pages.
- Footer Logo ad on every page — your always-on ad: logo and tagline, linked to your site, displayed sitewide. We design it for you at no charge.
- Vendor Badge & posting privileges — your badge appears on your profile and posts, plus a custom forum signature that works for you every time you post.
- Detailed ad statistics, 24/7 — track your performance any time from the site.
Add premium placement
$75/month/zone
Your footer logo is always on. When you want prominent, high-visibility placement, add any of these premium banner zones. Mix and match — one, two, or all three.
- Leaderboard (728 × 90) — dynamic placement throughout the forums, inserted multiple times per page between categories, topics, and posts.
- Large Leaderboard (970 × 90) — premium spot just above the forum menu on every forum page.
- Medium Rectangle (300 × 250) — runs in the sidebar across every page that has a right-hand column.
Best value: get all three zones for $295/month — a $25/month saving versus adding them one by one.
One zone = sitewide presence
Buy a zone and your ad rotates through every placement of that zone across the entire website — not a single fixed spot. A Leaderboard buy, for example, puts you in every leaderboard slot site-wide, inserted multiple times per page.
Every zone includes this dynamic placement and the same 24/7 statistics. We also keep each zone to just a few advertisers on purpose — the fewer in rotation, the more often your ad shows and the bigger your share of every page. Popular zones do fill up, so it’s worth claiming your spot early.
Note: banners must meet our ad guidelines (max 256K, GIF/JPG/PNG/SVG/WEBP/AVIF, up to 15-second/3-frame animation).
Just have one thing to announce?
Not ready for an ongoing membership? The RPLS.com Product Spotlight is a one-time announcement — a featured post about your product on our blog, plus a spot in the forum. Public, permanent, and indexed by Google.
Want a bigger presence?
The Vendor Membership puts you in front of the whole RPLS.com community. If you want to own more of it, we offer premium partnerships — each priced to fit, one conversation at a time:
- Forum sponsorship — put your brand on a specific board, where the reading and posting actually happen, with placement and recognition throughout that forum.
- Forum exclusivity (add-on) — make a sponsored forum yours alone. No other vendor’s branding (including banner ads) appears in that board for the length of your term.
Have your own idea? We’re all ears. Tell us what you’re trying to reach and we’ll build something that fits. → Let’s talk
Let’s talk
Interested in sponsorship, category exclusivity, or a custom package? Tell us your goals and we’ll put together options.
—Wendell
