Holding a contest will be of little use if nobody comes to know about the contest being held on your website. Here are ways to promote your contest:

1. Announce your contest on your website index page, major traffic pages or even All pages of your website if you can manage that with ease. The point here is that if a visitor visits a certain page of your website through a link from a search engine or from another website, he/she should not leave the website without any clue of the contest being held.

2. Announce your contest to your lists, newsletters or ezines, if you have any.

3. Announce your contests on networking forums and newsgroups in appropriate places. Please take care not to spam.

4. Update your email signature and add a one-line description and a link to your contest page.

5. Post your contest details on the following contest sites. You can post on all these sites for free, but for just a few more dollars, you can consider a paid listing which will multiply the visibility of your ad and thus, the traffic generated.

List of Contest Sites to promote your contest:

http://www.cashnetsweeps.com/
http://www.contesthound.com/
http://www.online-sweepstakes.com/
http://www.contestformoms.com/
http://www.contestguide.com/
http://www.sandysrealm.com/
http://www.contestalley.com/
http://www.grandmajam.com/
http://www.cyber-sweeps.com/
http://www.prizetower.com/
http://www.sweepstakesonline.com/