53 Promotional Websites To Gain Traffic Quick And Easy
Dainis GraverisIt started very long time ago (to be exact December 27, 2008), when I created my first promotional article with 40 promotional links in it. Then I was just starting and I was excited, there exist such things like user news and sites like DesignBump or DesignFloat.
Time passed, and I needed to update my article, add more links, delete old ones because I have been promoting EVERY article in these sites. Now this promotional article consists of 70 sites, but again I wasn’t sure how all links work – I mean how much traffic they return. And now you will hear why this article is so outstanding and extremely valuable for every design-related blogger! Since I’ve been submitting all my article on those sites this whole time, I have also very precise statistics based on several months.
Now I completely reviewed whole article and here TOP 53 sites are arranged in ascending order – from the most valuable websites to less ones. Unique visit count and information is based on my Google Analytics latest 3 months statistics. At the end I added several new and unverified but promising promotional websites.
Needless to say I will update this article regularly, so be sure to bookmark it for later reference! This is really assured list because I’ve tested it and I can tell – these sites really deliver impressive traffic! If you need that traffic – go ahead and take it now! I give you tools, you just need to realize them in the same way I did!
1. StumbleUpon* ( 160,154 unique visits)
StumbleUpon is no different – you need a lot of friends, good network to bring traffic. But if you have that all, again it totally pays off 10 times. You should have few powerful stumbler friends as well, who could discover or maybe even share your stories – returning you with easy traffic in that way!
2. Digg* (80,214 unique visits)
Certainly not easy traffic, but when you get the first time of Digg FrontPage you will never doubt it’s power and beautiful traffic income source. Building community takes a lot of time, so be sure you build contacts with few power diggers in your niche.
3. SmashingMagazine + Noupe (74,494 unique visits)
*Updated: in the next day, when I published this article SM and Noupe took off their user news and now there are only SmashingNetwork news in sidebar, so for most of us, this traffic isn’t available more.
Since now SM owns Noupe, their design news are now tied together. This number is not so accurate because I am on SmashingNetwork and get traffic from their features as well, but certainly worth submitting – 2 in 1!
4. Twitter* (22,119 unique visits)
Seems like now Twitter is getting even more popular as it is – if it is possible! It’s good to have powerful account or powerful friends with big networks to share your links with.
5. CSSGlobe* (7,528 unique visits)
If your links will be accepted in this site, you will get serious traffic regularly! This site is my big discovery, I was surprised how valuable it is and what kind of traffic it can deliver.
6. Facebook* (6,574 unique visits)
You need here to think seriously about community building or fan page, because it can really be good traffic income source.
7. DesignBump* (5,921 unique visits)
8. Dezinerfolio (3,678 unique visits)
9. Design-Newz (3,436 unique visits)
10. WebdesignNe.Ws (2,709 unique visits)
11. InstantShift (2,525 unique visits)
12. CSSDrive (2,145 unique visits)
13. DesignrFix (2,083 unique visits)
14. Devsnippets (1,831 unique visits)
15. Designm.Ag (1,692 unique visits)
16. Dzone* (1,400 unique visits)
17. Abduzeedo* (1,381 unique visits)
18. Psdfan (1,337 unique visits)
19. Reddit* (1,308 unique visits)
20. TripWireMagazine (1,219 unique visits)
21. DesignMoo* (1,185 unique visits)
22. DesignYourWay (1,171 unique visits)
23. DesignFloat* ( 1,003 unique visits)
24. 10Steps.sg (948 unique visits)
25. ShareBrain (942 unique visits)
26. Graphic-Design-Links* (753 unique visits)
27. Hongkiat (735 unique visits)
28. InspiredN (733 unique visits)
29. TheDesignMag (686 unique visits)
30. SpeckyBoy (570 unique visits)
31. BlogFreakz (557 unique visits)
32. FuelYourCreativity (521 unique visits)
33. NaldzGraphics (516 unique visits)
34. DesiznTech (499 unique visits)
34. TheWebBlend* (342 unique visits)
35.ZaBox* (383 unique visits)
36. MyInkBlog (250 unique visits)
37. ScriptAndStyle (249 unique visits)
38. CSSLeak (209 unique visits)
39. WhoFreelance (207 unique visits)
40. PVM Garage (151 unique visits)
Envato network
41. PSD.Tutplus (1,019 unique visits)
You need to submit in those 3 sites articles one by one, because spam filter somehow work between these sites, I mean if all three pages are open you need to refresh page to get valid CAPTCHA numbers.
42. Net.Tutplus (550 unique visits)
43. Vector.Tutplus (538 unique visits)
Fresh additions:
I will add here constantly new websites I will find or our readers will suggest and test it myself so I can drop out worthless sites out and put great websites higher in main list.
44. KnowteBook
45. GraphicMania
46. PSDeluxe
47. ChethStudios
48. CypherBox*
49. AnimHut (right sidebar)
50. PSDVibe (right sidebar)
51. DesignNussion
52. Styletime
53. DesignInformer (right sidebar)
If you know more VALUABLE promotional sites or links, where we could submit articles, let us know and I’ll consider about showcasing that site as well here!
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Webtoolfeed
Posted 858 days ago 51Just created a design news website check it out!
http://webtoolnews.slinkset.com/
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Loic
Posted 859 days ago 50Hi Dainis,
that’s such a great list of awesome websites where we will be able to engage with our audience and add value.
Thanks a million, the team at advisor websites
Ivan Mišić
Posted 860 days ago 49Great list, bookmarked
Dee007
Posted 861 days ago 48Have a look at http://www.submitstartup.com as it hosts a number of blogs and the unique visitors that came from those posts. Quite Interesting.
Wajid
Posted 861 days ago 47Very impressive post thank you
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Tanmi Gold
Posted 861 days ago 46This is Truly Amazing,once you get listed on all these high traffic sites, you can expect some terrible traffic.
Thanks Dainis 4 sharing.
cchana
Posted 861 days ago 45nice, comprehensive list. few sites i’d not come across before!
Allen
Posted 861 days ago 44emm, a good list .
I don’t know SmashingMagazine and Twitter cna gain so much traffic! cool!
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chandan
Posted 861 days ago 43Hey thank you for the list, most of site is still unknown for me. Well if all provide dofollow link I will definitely join them.
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Chethan
Posted 861 days ago 42This is Ultimate!
Congrats!!!!!!
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Francis Baptiste
Posted 861 days ago 41Wow, great article. I never took networking seriously until after I graduated, which is too bad, because now I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of opportunities. This is a great place to start.
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daniel
Posted 861 days ago 40Great list. I dont use, but now, i have a few new sites to reed :P.
thank you
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kevin
Posted 862 days ago 39and…. http://www.queness.com :)
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Tom Dringer
Posted 862 days ago 37Nice, thanks. Signing up to stumbleupon now.
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Billco
Posted 862 days ago 36The biggest problem I see with your site, it’s not how many aggregators you submit to, it’s the quality of your own content. All I see here is lists of “top 50 xyz” and it has absolutely no value. If all I want is lists, I can browse Delicious like everyone else.
Less quantity, more quality. That’s what drives a good site. The traffic will come, so long as there’s rich content to be delivered. Anyone can compile an obvious list of popular sites, even a mindless PHP script could accomplish this with ease. Instead, write about your own experiences, focus on something you have a passion for, a topic you can examine in-depth; be an expert at something, then share that wisdom. If you want to drive traffic and make money, you have to offer something of value. Right now your head is full of lies from reading “money making blogs” like Shoemoney and Chow and Kiyosaki, and you’re just adding to the background noise.
Marina
Posted 862 days ago 38I’d have to disagree. It’s personal preference. Personally I think list sites can be really useful and saves people the trouble of having to find good resources on their own- I started my own blog for the reason that I could organise good resources into lists instead of having huge bookmark folders.
On the other hand, I’m not into blogs with a lot of writing or personal diaries. Sure, what they write about may be useful to a lot of other people out there, but to me, it’s mostly general advice that’s common sense. Neither am I interested in a page-long post about a person discussing their personal values when it comes to freelance work for example.
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 544 days ago 66Interesting comment – about list posts there have been a lot of discussions already why blogs compile such posts and why they are so popular.
If you’re thinking that this blog is inspired by some background noise, how comes it’s one of the biggest in world with 1.5 million uniques monthly? How much for background noise now – if we would do a bad job here, we won’t get such attention and I don’t think you see here too many affiliate,promotional articles, I would say you see them pretty rarely, but you’ll still complaining.
Show you can do better job and then talk – however of course I agree always quality can be increased. But that doesn’t come easily, it’s really tough work and while we are improving I still think you could show some appreciation.
Cheers to that!
Lars V
Posted 863 days ago 35Thanks a lot for this seriously interesting post. I know it has been quite an effort to create it! Also thanks for including tripwiremagazine.com – great to hear that others in the community actually benefit from contributing with links on my site!
Yatti420
Posted 863 days ago 34Good list of sites.. I have a live naruto stream on my site..
mupet
Posted 863 days ago 33Thanks Dainis for including my blogfreakz.com
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Michelle
Posted 863 days ago 32Hey great list, I use a lot of these :)
Please do not forget the Kaplang community news section where you can submit your design news.
http://www.kaplang.com/blog/community-news/
Thanks
Rafiq elmansy
Posted 863 days ago 31Thank you for including graphicmania in this wonderful list :)
Ashley
Posted 863 days ago 30I must admit that this collection of sites and the content on this post is truly helpful. Great collection!
Thanks,
Ashley
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Dumm
Posted 863 days ago 29great list
Smashing Share
Posted 863 days ago 28Hey Dainis, Nice list. Am not using stumble much but have to think about it :)
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Inside the Webb
Posted 863 days ago 27It’s funny to still see Digg on these kinds of lists. Not to say Digg is completely out of fashion and nobody uses it anymore, but it really is overrun with crappy spam articles and things not even interesting.. not to mention the FP traffic isn’t even that great anymore
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SmashingWebs.com
Posted 863 days ago 26Thanks for the great list. I got a lot of visitors.. thanks
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