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A great way to get free advertising for your website or web product is to offer an online contest. A contest with a valued prize is great for a number of reasons, but primarily it creates activity on your site as well as gets other websites and blogs talking about your site. This genuine word of mouth on other sites and blogs is the kind of advertising that is very hard to buy.

A successful contest is open to everyone that visits the website and usually involves a very simple sign-up process like commenting on a blog post or signing up for the newsletter. The prize offered can be a real item that will be mailed to the winner, a credit or gift card at an online retail source like Ebay or Amazon, or a virtual item like an ebook or membership to an exclusive site.

A well run online contest can increase traffic to a site in a big big way, all that you have to do is get the word out about your contest and the rest takes care of itself.