Webmasters and online marketers give lot of tips about promoting your site from word of mouth, writing articles, link exchange, search engines, and ezines. But they sometimes forgot one effective way to promote your site.

Conduct a contest?
Yes! It's true conducting a very challenging contest regarding to your site niche will be one of the best way to promote your site. If you design well the contest with very tempted prize (not always cash) people in your niche will talk about this and become exited.

Example, you have a site related to webmasters. Create a contest that will challenge all webmasters knowledge, like web designing, web script or SEO. Let's say contest on SEO, choice a keyword that is related to your site or niche for example isulong seoph.

Webmaster will not join just because they want the prize they will join because they want to be recognized or prove their selves that they can compete with other webmasters.

What will happened then is that people on webmaster world talk about your contest and you will get link from everywhere pointing to your site. More link of course more promotion of your site and more links the better position you can get from search engines.

Contest is really a great way to promote your site fast and easy, so start thinking a contest that very challenging to every one now and you will see traffic will come to your site.