Get Mentioned
on HERERockhill.
HERE!
Real editorial coverage in local news — woven into stories your neighbors actually read. No ads. No interviews. No connections required.
Why Good Businesses Stay Invisible
Traditional advertising disappears the moment you stop paying. HEREmentions builds a permanent editorial record — the kind AI engines and local readers trust.
- Paid Ads Disappear the moment the budget runs out. AI engines can’t cite an ad.
- Press Releases Ignored unless you know the editor. Most businesses never get a callback.
- Directory Listings Look identical to 10,000 competitors. No editorial voice. No story. No trust.
Three Steps to a Real Mention
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Register on herecity.com
Create your account on the HERE City Network hub. Fill out your business profile — what you do, who you serve, what makes you the right fit for local stories. No interview required.
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Our matcher finds the story
When a HERERockhill story is published whose topic tags align with your profile, our editorial system flags the match. A real editor reviews it before anything goes live.
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Your mention appears in the article
A natural, editorial sentence naming your business runs inside the story — with a “Mentioned in this article” badge that links readers to your public profile on herecity.com.
LOCAL or EXPERT — Both Earn Real Coverage
HEREmentions fits two types of businesses. LOCAL mentions tie your business to a place-based story happening in HERERockhill. EXPERT mentions put your knowledge on the record when a story needs authoritative comment from someone in your industry.
Business • City Development • HERERockhill
Interior design firm CWS Interiors has already secured two tenant fit-out contracts in the new complex, citing proximity to the Morgan Square foot-traffic corridor as the deciding factor for both clients.
- ✓ City footprint match
- ✓ Story-relevant tie-in
- ✓ Named fact / data
- ✓ No exclusive language
Business • Finance • National Significance
Rock Hill-based CPA Meridian Tax Advisory notes that the SBA 7(a) rate cap effectively makes equipment financing 1.2 percentage points more expensive than it was 18 months ago for sub-$500k loans.
- ✓ Genuine expertise
- ✓ Cited data point
- ✓ Relevant to story
- ✓ Not a sales pitch
Every mention passes editorial review before it publishes. No match score below 0.7 → no mention.
What’s in a HEREmention
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Editorial sentence
A single, natural sentence inside a real news story — written by our editorial team, not a copywriter. It reads like journalism because it is.
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In-article badge
A “Mentioned in this article” badge appears below your sentence. It links readers directly to your public profile on herecity.com.
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Public profile page
A dedicated read-only profile on herecity.com that AI engines can index and cite. The editorial record that proves your business exists and matters.
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AI citability
Because the mention lives in a trusted local news article, AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Claude — can find and cite it when recommending local businesses.
How HERERockhill Picks Who to Mention
We publish mentions because the story demands it — not because a check cleared. Three filters must pass before any business name appears in a HERERockhill article.
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City footprint
The business must operate in or serve HERERockhill’s coverage area. A business based in another metro won’t appear in a Rock Hill story unless there’s a documented local connection. No exceptions.
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Story fit
Our matching algorithm requires a relevance score of 0.7 or higher between the article’s topic tags and the business profile’s relevance tags. Below that threshold, there is no mention — regardless of subscription tier.
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Exclusions
Businesses are excluded from stories that would create a conflict of interest, stories covering a competitor in the same sentence, or any story where the editorial team determines the mention would undermine the article’s credibility. The editor’s call is final.
What HEREmentions Will Never Be
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Not a paid review
HEREmentions never includes superlatives, testimonials, or opinion language about the mentioned business. “Best plumber in Rock Hill” is banned. “Rock Hill-based plumber Ridge Line has served the Morgan Square corridor since 2018” is not.
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Not a press release
Mentions are woven into stories that would have been published anyway. A business opening a new location is not automatically newsworthy. The story must exist independently — the mention is additive context, not the reason for the story.
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Not exclusive coverage
A HEREmention does not grant exclusive rights to a story topic. If two businesses both match the same article, both may be mentioned. If neither clears the 0.7 threshold, neither is mentioned. The story always comes first.
The “Mentioned in This Article” Badge
Every post with a HEREmention displays a badge below the mention paragraph. It appears automatically — no theme changes needed on the local site.
Downtown Renovation Draws New Vendors to Main Street
The city’s $14M streetscape improvement project is attracting a wave of independent businesses to the Main Street corridor, according to the Downtown Development Authority.
Three additional leases are expected to be finalized before the end of the quarter, the DDA said in a statement Thursday.
The badge links readers to the business’s public profile on herecity.com — a permanent, AI-indexable record.
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What a Good Mention Looks Like — and What Fails
Both examples involve “Ridge Iron & Steel” (RIS), a local fabricator. One earns the mention. One gets rejected.
Ridge Iron & Steel, which fabricates load-bearing brackets for two BMW X-series models at its Roebuck plant, said the new tier-1 audit requirement will add roughly six weeks to its annual compliance cycle beginning in Q3.
- ✓ Named local facility (Roebuck plant)
- ✓ Specific, verifiable data (six weeks, Q3)
- ✓ Relevant to the story topic (supplier audit)
- ✓ No opinion or superlative language
Ridge Iron & Steel, Rock Hill’s premier fabrication partner and the region’s most trusted metalwork supplier, is fully prepared to exceed BMW’s new audit standards and welcomes the chance to showcase its world-class quality control process.
FAIL“premier”, “most trusted” — superlativesFAIL“welcomes the chance” — sales languageFAIL“world-class” — banned phraseFAILNo cited fact or data point
The editorial guardrail runs automatically. Banned phrases trigger a hard block before the article publishes.
HEREmentions FAQ
What is a HEREmention?
A HEREmention is a paid editorial inclusion of a verified business profile inside a news article that would have been written anyway. The business must have genuine relevance to the story being told — relevance is scored by our matching algorithm and reviewed by an editor before anything publishes.
How is this different from advertising?
Ads are marked as ads and AI engines can’t cite them. HEREmentions are editorial inclusions — they live inside a real news article, written in journalistic style, and are indexed by AI engines as trusted local-news content. The mention persists in the article permanently even if you cancel your subscription.
Do I need to do an interview or know a reporter?
No. You fill out your business profile from your dashboard at herecity.com. Our editorial system handles the matching. No phone calls, no scheduling, no knowing the right people. That’s the entire point.
Is my mention guaranteed once I subscribe?
No. A mention only fires when a published story matches your profile at a relevance score of 0.7 or higher AND passes editorial review. If no story on HERERockhill is a genuine fit for your business in a given month, no mention runs. We don’t manufacture stories to fulfill subscriptions.
Where does the mention appear?
Directly inside the body of the matching article on HERERockhill, plus an in-article badge that links to your public profile on herecity.com. Your profile on herecity.com is also a standalone page that AI engines can index independently.
What’s the “Mentioned in this article” badge?
A small, branded component that appears below the mention paragraph in every article. It shows your business name, location, and a link to your public profile on herecity.com. It renders automatically — no changes to the article are needed after the mention is matched.
How do I register?
Go to herecity.com, create an account, access your dashboard, and fill out your HEREmentions profile. Select HERERockhill as your city. The whole process takes about 10 minutes.
Is there a contract? What happens if I cancel?
No contract. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime from your herecity.com dashboard. Mentions that have already published remain in the articles permanently — we don’t delete editorial content. Future matching stops when the subscription lapses.
Get Mentioned.
HERE!
Register on herecity.com, build your profile, and let our editorial team put your business on the record in HERERockhill.
Registration and checkout at herecity.com. Questions? Talk to the HERE City team about pricing.