Direct answer and scope
The three defined display formats are header, sidebar square, and sidebar tall. The validated configuration reserves these three quiet gray house inquiry placements per page and does not add a fourth placement or replace them with other commercial formats.
The inquiry boundary is display advertising rather than a service request. It does not take payment, offer checkout or deposits, sell consumer funeral or memorial leads, route referrals or tracked calls, or create a portrait order or memorial account. It also does not provide affiliate routing, performance-based placement, a success fee, or a commission outcome.
Advertising must be clearly identifiable. A paid placement stays outside every checklist, output, source table, official route, page order, and editorial conclusion. The advertising inquiry therefore does not serve as a route into editorial work or as a way to affect the information presented there.
How to use the official evidence
An advertising inquiry should be treated as a request for review, not as an approval or a completed placement. Manual review covers business identity, current claim substantiation, the destination, creative, and disclosure before a commercial placement can replace a house inquiry.
Advertiser claims need current supporting evidence. The review boundary applies to the claim presented for advertising and to the materials supplied for that review; it does not turn an advertising placement into an editorial source, checklist entry, official route, or source-table conclusion.
The advertising label and the separation from editorial content are part of the method. A business inquiry must remain within the stated display format and must not be presented as a consumer memorial request, an editorial recommendation, or a conclusion reached through the site's information work.
Decision framework
First, identify the intended format: header, sidebar square, or sidebar tall. These are the three advertising placements. The request should remain a display inquiry and should not be framed as a request for a lead, referral, ranked position, checklist change, or memorial account.
Next, separate business information, advertising claims, destination, creative, and disclosure. Current substantiation is required for claims submitted for review. The review method calls for manual consideration of those materials rather than automatic verification.
Finally, confirm the editorial boundary. A commercial placement must remain clearly identifiable and outside every checklist, output, source table, official route, page order, and editorial conclusion. Payment or an advertising inquiry does not create a route to change editorial coverage or the information produced by those areas.
Limits and what to verify next
The supplied advertising configuration describes a fixed-term, fixed-fee display inquiry, but it does not establish a price, deposit, billing schedule, inventory promise, approval, response time, or campaign result. Those matters should not be assumed from the existence of an inquiry option.
Before proceeding, a business should verify that its request concerns one of the three defined display formats, that the intended claims have current substantiation, and that the destination, creative, and disclosure can be presented for manual review. The request should also remain business-only and separate from consumer memorial matters.
The advertising method does not accept a request to buy consumer leads or referrals, obtain tracked calls, purchase ranking or checklist influence, or secure a portrait commission, memorial account, affiliate conversion, or commission outcome. Those are outside the commercial model rather than matters that substantiation can make acceptable.
Questions people ask
The questions below distinguish the available display inquiry from consumer requests and editorial work. They also identify the evidence and review boundaries that apply before a commercial placement can replace a house inquiry.
| Placement | Separation | Size | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| header | Above editorial content | 970×90 / 320×100 | Fixed-term fixed-fee inquiry only |
| sidebar-square | Editorial sidebar outside portrait-planning outputs | 300×250 | Fixed-term fixed-fee inquiry only |
| sidebar-tall | Long-form sidebar outside rights and continuity questions | 300×600 | Fixed-term fixed-fee inquiry only |
No payment, portrait or memorial lead, referral, affiliate offer, rank, vendor contact, commission outcome or planner influence is offered.
Evidence behind this page
Each point below is restricted to what the cited primary source supports. Administrative listing status is not a quality endorsement.
| Evidence | Supported point | Scope and limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence 1 | Render the same three subdued links to the advertising policy on all twelve launch pages. | Do not add a fourth placement, popup, interstitial, sticky obstruction, bright creative, live advertiser, product card, vendor listing, or contextual recommendation. |
| Evidence 2 | Explain the inquiry boundary, advertising label, three available formats, substantiation requirement, and editorial firewall before asking for business-only contact data. | Do not offer checkout, deposit, recurring billing, auction, affiliate routing, tracked consumer calls, success fee, automated approval, price promise, inventory promise, or campaign-result promise. |
| Evidence 3 | Keep paid advertising clearly identifiable and outside every checklist, output, source table, official route, page order, and editorial conclusion. | Do not imply endorsement, verify a claim automatically, accept consumer memorial requests, publish testimonials, change editorial coverage, or promise approval or response time. |
Questions people ask
Can a portrait artist, memorial business, or local service request a gray display placement?
The advertising model provides a business-only display inquiry subject to manual review. The inquiry does not create a consumer memorial request, referral, ranking, or editorial route.
Which three advertising placements appear on each page?
The three placements are header, sidebar square, and sidebar tall. They are quiet gray house inquiry placements linked to the advertising policy. No fourth placement or additional commercial format is included in the validated configuration.
Does the advertising inquiry take payment?
The inquiry itself does not take payment. The commercial model is a manually reviewed, fixed-term, fixed-fee display inquiry, and it does not provide checkout, deposits, recurring billing, auction-based placement, or automated approval.
Can an advertiser buy consumer leads or portrait referrals?
No. The commercial model does not sell consumer funeral or memorial leads, referrals, tracked calls, portrait commissions, memorial accounts, affiliate conversions, or commission outcomes. An advertising inquiry is limited to the defined display placement process.
Can a paid placement change a checklist or source conclusion?
No. Paid advertising must remain clearly identifiable and outside every checklist, output, source table, official route, page order, and editorial conclusion. An advertising inquiry does not provide checklist influence or a way to change editorial coverage.
Which advertiser claims require current evidence?
Claims submitted for advertising require current substantiation as part of manual review. The review covers business identity, the claim substantiation, destination, creative, and disclosure before a commercial placement can replace a house inquiry. An advertising placement is not an editorial source or automatic claim verification.
Portrait-planning-separated display inquiry
The form requests prospective gray header or sidebar terms only. It takes no payment, reserves no inventory, routes no portrait or memorial lead, and cannot change rights, export, QR, privacy, backup or continuity questions.
Live creative requires manual business-identity and claim-substantiation review and remains visibly labeled as advertising.
Request advertising information
No payment is taken on this page. Submitting the form requests availability and terms; it does not buy placement or change any editorial or directory record.
Primary sources
- Federal Trade Commission — Native Advertising Guide for Businesses Verified 2026-08-26
- Federal Trade Commission — Advertising FAQs for Small Business Verified 2026-08-26
- Memorial Portrait and Digital Continuity Desk validated advertising configuration Verified 2026-08-26