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Since I use social bookmarking/voting sites to promote my articles a lot, I thought I might share these sites with You too – I know if You submit every article in each of these sites regularly, You’ll get many new and regular readers in short time period. I, for example, got 4,000-5,000 unique readers everyday using this method. Of course, there is also much more small and useful tips, but I think I’ll do that kind of article a little bit later.
And I know, there are few another similar articles, but at least for me, I want my own list, showing the more and less useful sites for me in diminishing order. Not all of sites are just for design related articles, but I couldn’t not to include those sites too, since they create so much traffic for me. Also if You use this technique, You get very strong backlinks which are good for SEO and Your site at first place, of course.
I marked social bookmarking/voting sites with registration required with “*” mark.
If You get at least 15-20 Your article stumblers in short time period, You can get amazing amounts of traffic, so this is my number one pick. If You use FireFox, install StumbleUpon add-on to easily send Your links to friends.
4. Vectortuts (don’t click to PsdTuts and Nettuts at the same time)
7. Reddit *(not working well for design blogs)
Be active and this can be great source of traffic.
You can add user link news there, but in order to do that, You must register there.
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34. Joyoge *
You can add user link news there, but in order to do that, You must register there.
These are sites that works simply great for me, I submit almost every article in all of these sites. I didn’t add any images, because I know if anybody will use this article as reference, big pictures will only disturb You.
Also if You are interested where to submit Your tutorials, I got huge article just for that section – 30 Useful Sites Where To Submit Your Tutorials. Enjoy!’t
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 21:16
Excellent list. I think CSS Globe has turned into a blog now. Consider yourself having an extra feed subscriber.
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009 11:56
Great list! Thanks for sharing…
Keep up the great work! ;)
Ovi Dogar
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009 01:51
thank you!
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009 10:57
@Pliggs actually I didn’t miss it, just didn’t make in top list for me that faqpal :) I just didn’t want to get just big list, wanted something really valuable..something that works for me! :)
And thanks for comments and good words, friends! :)
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 00:17
Good list, you missed http://www.faqpal.com
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009 22:13
Great list, thanks. Going to Delicious Bookmark it now…
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009 09:49
Thanks for the list ;) Almost all of the above sites have been very valuable to me.
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009 14:45
Oh wow awesome collection, Thanks
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009 07:00
Dainis will you add this link here?
http://desizntech.info/submit-link/
I have added a news section in my site too. Thanks
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Friday, January 16th, 2009 03:29
Nice! I’ll be adding some of these to my own list :)
Tom Rosss last blog post : I’m Back Online
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 23:30
Thanks for this complete list! Already knew some of them but also lots of new ones!
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 13:01
Great links.Thanks. I’ll have to get going at registering at some of the more obscure links here, and add them to my “must submit to” list. Keep up the good work.
Paul.
Paul Anthonys last blog post : 17 mega-creative side scrolling websites.
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 15:33
Thanks for including CrazyLeaf Design Blog and zaBox in this amazing list.
Alex | CrazyLeaf Design Blogs last blog post : Christmas Giveaway #2 Winners
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 11:10
@Steven no problem, designm.ag works great for me, and I don’t know why but CSSGlobe on my list is where it is, but interesting however. And pity yes, hopefully there will come time when Digg will work too for us, but it’s not for average users no more.
@Boogiesbc yeah, with digg it’s exactly as You said..unfortunately..
@Max no problem :)
@Paul Viau do that and You’ll feel revenue soon enough!
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 22:43
Thanks for including design shards link feed
Maxs last blog post : Get more traffic with good web design
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 23:29
Great list of sites! I guess i’ll have to pick 15-20 and get my feet wet!
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 15:04
Really beautiful list indeed! I didn’t know some of them until now.
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 12:58
Digg isn’t any more what it used to be. Nowadays on Digg you get on the first page if you have a lot of friends and connections. If you just have a good article and you’re hoping to be published on the first page you can wait for ages.
boogiesbcs last blog post : Show me some well designed logos! #14
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 12:29
That’s a great list of design sites. Thanks.
Andrew
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 18:44
Thank you for including my site :)
kailoons last blog post : Studio E-Space
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 07:08
Nice list, and thanks for including DesignM.ag. Personally, I would have CSS Globe much higher on my list. I don’t submit there very often any more, but I used to get really good traffic from CSS Globe. I agree with you that StumbleUpon is a great resource, but Digg not so much. Digg is good for some people, but it’a all or nothing.
Steven Snells last blog post : 40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 03:22
very useful list, thank you for adding us “design community” all the best..
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 10:15
I did tried a few of them and I got a bit of good feedback, but not what I was expecting. Regards.
Ales
Saturday, November 19th, 2011 12:23
Hi,
We are also now accepting community news submissions:
http://premiumcoding.com/submit-community-news/
Thank you.
Tyler Herman
Sunday, November 6th, 2011 10:17
Very complete list. Some of the links are broken now but still largely relevant.
Kelly
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 10:41
Of course, I enjoyed this list so much:-) We are into graphics and really appreciated the list where we can submit some of our amazing designs. Thanks for your generosity!
Todd
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 01:25
I used to. Thanks ;)
Marvin
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 06:57
A blog post on your own site letting your visitor base know that you added something new is a great way to get the word out about new content or services. Other webmasters who follow your site or RSS feed could pick the story up as well.
Elio
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 20:59
Designm.ag links submission is no longer free, they are charging a 2.99 fee.
Garlak
Monday, August 23rd, 2010 02:24
Really great list Dainis. :-)
Sven
Friday, September 25th, 2009 20:46
Hi,
thanks for the helpful list!
I have two more sites for you: QNT and qindex
Kind regards,
Sven
Dainis Graveris
Monday, October 5th, 2009 10:12
Nice share, Sven! I am adding those sites to list now! Thanks, man!
loswl
Friday, October 16th, 2009 20:40
Very cool list, we used these links for our blog and our unique readers went up about 80% the first week, Rss readers and Twitter count went up too, it is worth the effort. Thanks for placing inspiks.com in the list :o)
Alex
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 01:14
thanks for this great tip, showcases bought a great traffic…
Dainis Graveris
Monday, August 17th, 2009 08:38
oh wow, didn’t expect comment on such old post..:) Though I am using it everyday, hope it will become handy for you too:)
cheth
Sunday, July 26th, 2009 02:01
Great list :) I too have this submit list on my blog.
http://chethstudios.blogspot.com/2009/04/submit-design-news-on-chethstudios.html
and i also tweet the submissions so that means extra traffic promotion :)
Jasmin Halkić
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 20:29
Nice list!
tabrez
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 15:08
it just great website
Dwayne Cossey
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 02:00
Great resource…I use almost all of these. Thanks so much.
sriganesh
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 12:39
nice list and you can add our links | we also share community links | you can check in our blog.
Heels
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 05:14
Great List! I’ve passed this list along to others.
Sumeet Chawla
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 01:34
Awesome ^ infinity :)
Ravi
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 14:06
Great list,
thank you for sharing.
yadirosadi
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 04:37
Great List ! add also http://nestdev.com/ to your list. it is a community site, bookmarks sharing. thank’s. :)
gfxsky
Friday, March 26th, 2010 14:08
Very useful! In my opinion, we only need 10 social site for SEO :D
Muxx
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 15:54
Thanks a ton for the list, it’s great to get the additional promotion :)
HD Stock
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 22:28
Great list, just what I was looking for!
John Foy
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 23:29
Great article and advice. Thanks for taking the time and compiling a long, useful list of resources. Must have taken a lot of time, but obviously worth it.