Your expertise, published where Bradenton actually reads.
Discover Bradenton members can submit one blog post or video each month to be featured on our website, free with your membership. Your content reaches thousands of locals across Bradenton, Palmetto, Anna Maria Island, and the rest of Manatee County, and you earn a quality backlink to your site in the process.
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1 / month
free feature, every member
$0
beyond your membership
Backlink
to your website, every post
12,000+ locals reached
through social media and email
What can members submit?
Tips from Local Pros
How-to and advice content for the general public. Think a Palmetto roofer explaining what to check after a summer storm, or a Bradenton CPA walking through hurricane-loss deductions.
A Palmetto roofer on post-storm checks. A Bradenton CPA on hurricane-loss deductions. An Anna Maria charter captain on what actually bites in August.
Business Buzz
Business-to-business topics like hiring, marketing, or commercial real estate in Manatee County
Hiring in a tight local labor market. Marketing on a small-business budget. What's moving in Bradenton commercial real estate this quarter.
Submit either format: ✍️ a written post (400–1,000 words) or 🎥 a short video (YouTube or Vimeo link, optional 200-word intro). Whatever you write or record, it should teach, help, or inspire. A soft call-to-action at the end is fine. A sales pitch is not. This isn't ad space. It's your chance to be the local expert people remember.
Why submit content to Discover Bradenton?
Four reasons, in plain terms:
No. 1
Trust
When a homeowner in West Bradenton reads your advice before they ever call you, you've already won half the sale.
No. 2
Visibility
Your business gets in front of our website readers, email list, and social followers, people who live and spend here.
No. 3
SEO
Each published post links back to your website. Backlinks from established local sites are one of the strongest signals Google uses to rank you in Bradenton-area searches.
No. 4
Authority
Publish consistently and you become the name people (and AI search tools) associate with your trade in this area.
Some submissions also make it into our curated digital publication, a roundup emailed to our full contact list and promoted across our social channels. Details below.
Submission guidelines
What we run, and what we don't
Yes, please
One blog post or one video per business, per month
Content that teaches, informs, or inspires
A short call-to-action at the end
Up to 2 internal links (your services page, another post)
Original work, or republished with permission and a credit link
Hard pass
Sales pitches dressed up as articles
Politics, religion, or adult content
MLM promotion
Plagiarized or uncredited material
Video uploads — link from YouTube or Vimeo instead
We may edit, shorten, or decline any submission. If your piece ran somewhere else first,
include the original link so we can credit it properly.
How does the curated digital publication work?
On a recurring schedule (set by submission volume), we collect the best member submissions into an interactive digital publication. It goes out by email to our full contact list and gets promoted across our social media channels, the widest reach we offer members.
Guaranteed spot
Ultimate Members & Sponsors
One featured submission in every edition
Guaranteed placement, every single edition
Submit more than one entry and we run your strongest piece
Priority promotion across email and social
Base Members
Included when there's space
Selected by the number of comments your post earns
Share your post with your own audience to climb the list
Every comment is a vote for your spot