A great and inexpensive way to promote your online business and blog is through a contest. The main purpose it to help drive traffic to your blog or website and eventually leading to new readers or sales. A contest can also get others talking about your blog and you can even make it one of the entry requirements for the contest.

One of the best ways is to offer prizes that are related to your business. On our traffic exchange, we give away free traffic to contest winners. emcgn2007.com blog has various postings on how to increase your search rankings. The amount does not have to be large. We have gotten some great resutls when the prize was only $10. With this option you can offer contest prizes such as cash or gift cards. You can easily award cash prizes through services like PayPal. If you are running the contest yourself, the main goal other than promoting the actual contest, is to capture names and email addresses by way of the entry form. Each entrant can then be added to your mailing list, as a potential customer.