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It 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!
Thanks for sharing such great resource was searching for such websites for while. Thanks
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Nice collection of resources. There are a couple of sites that I didn’t even know existed, thanks for the heads up. Looks like I have a bunch of more reading to do. Thanks.
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Great list. I dont use, but now, i have a few new sites to reed :P.
thank you
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Great post. Its a very valuable information for me. I am new to the internet marketing so this post will help me a lot to promote my site. Thanks for giving time to write this post.
Great list. Even though I live in Denmark some of them are useful for me. Thank you :-)
You forgot a really good one, http://zero3computers.com/user-submitted.php, they let you submit a community link without signing up.
Thanks for the list, this is a very valuable resource. There are a lot of lists like this out there, but you have set yours apart through some quantifiable traffic details, which must have taken some work, well done!
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reddit , facebook, twitter :D
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heyy
thankss sure… :)
very good info, I think I need to register at all that the websites. :D
thank
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awesome tghis is v interesting to me – I try to submit to teh top 20 that bring traffic – I’m only just working out which ones do – Do you post to all of them?
best ben
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List of good sites ..
Good thanks you
Awesome list. I just started new blog, and your article sure help me a lot.
Subscribed!! :-)
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you can include mine in the list if you want : http://designartwall.com/news/
thanks for the share..
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Nice list there, some new sites i’d not seen and some old faces. Thanks :)
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thx for this Wonderful info! I’m gonna submit my article to all of this website! Thx a lot Dainis! Nice knowing you! I mean your website…
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Wow a lot of these I never heard of which is great so I can now take advantage of more sites to try and gain more traffic. Thanks so much!
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Just created a design news website check it out!
http://webtoolnews.slinkset.com/
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Hi 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
Thanks . Well summarized in single place
Great list, bookmarked
Thanks for the tips!
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Have 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.
Excellent resources. Many sites I haven’t heard of before and my master list is pretty big.
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Very impressive post thank you
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This is Truly Amazing,once you get listed on all these high traffic sites, you can expect some terrible traffic.
Thanks Dainis 4 sharing.
nice, comprehensive list. few sites i’d not come across before!
emm, a good list .
I don’t know SmashingMagazine and Twitter cna gain so much traffic! cool!
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Hey 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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This is Ultimate!
Congrats!!!!!!
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Wow, 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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Great list. I dont use, but now, i have a few new sites to reed :P.
thank you
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and…. http://www.queness.com :)
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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!…
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check the new one here which is i found on net, http://cssleaf.com on the queue for the name of creative news.
Nice, thanks. Signing up to stumbleupon now.
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The 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.
I’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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You could also add http://www.favshare.net :)
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Thanks 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!
Good list of sites.. I have a live naruto stream on my site..