What good looks like
Good: “Sponsored · Lilac Beauty Supply — Healthy hair starts here. Pro products, Spokane prices — open 7 days on Monroe. Visit site.” A real business name, one plain offer, one destination. It reads like the Journal because it sits inside the Journal.
Bad: “⭐ #1 BEAUTY SUPPLY IN SPOKANE!! HUGE SALE ENDS TONIGHT” with a wall of text crammed into the body line and a bit.ly destination. We’d reject this on three separate grounds before lunch.
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Send us a logo and your offer — we set the ad in house style, included. Most sponsors do it this way; it’s also the surest path through review, since we’re building it to fit.
About the links
Links from ad units carry rel="sponsored"per Google's guidelines — this is not link-building inventory. You're buying attention from Spokane's hair community, not PageRank.