40 Promotional Sites Where To Submit Your Design Related Links

By Dainis Graveris • December 27, 2008

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.

1. Stumbleupon *

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.

2. DesignFloat *

3. DesignBump *

4. Vectortuts

5. Graphic-Design-Links *

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.

16. TheCreativityWall

17. CSSDrive

18. FuelYourCreativity

On the right sidebar, under Community news.

32. Vot.eti.me * (unfortunately down for some time)

33. Fbrushes

34. Joyoge *

35. CSSGlobe

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!

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71 Responses to “ 40 Promotional Sites Where To Submit Your Design Related Links ”

joyoge designers' bookmark Dec 27th, 2008 at 03:22

very useful list, thank you for adding us “design community” all the best..

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Steven Snell Dec 27th, 2008 at 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.

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Thomas Dec 27th, 2008 at 11:52

Thanks for including my website, Great list
Andrew Dec 27th, 2008 at 12:29

That’s a great list of design sites. Thanks.

Andrew
boogiesbc Dec 27th, 2008 at 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.

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Someone Dec 27th, 2008 at 15:04

Really beautiful list indeed! I didn’t know some of them until now.
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kailoon Dec 27th, 2008 at 18:44

Thank you for including my site

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Max Dec 27th, 2008 at 22:43

Thanks for including design shards link feed

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Paul Viau Dec 27th, 2008 at 23:29

Great list of sites! I guess i’ll have to pick 15-20 and get my feet wet!
Dainis Graveris Dec 28th, 2008 at 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!
Alex | CrazyLeaf Design Blog Dec 28th, 2008 at 15:33

Thanks for including CrazyLeaf Design Blog and zaBox in this amazing list.

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Paul Anthony Dec 30th, 2008 at 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.

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Thanks for this complete list! Already knew some of them but also lots of new ones!
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david Jan 5th, 2009 at 17:37

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thanks for sharing your SB list! good job
Tom Ross Jan 16th, 2009 at 03:29

Nice! I’ll be adding some of these to my own list

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Best Design Options Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:34

Thanks for the listing. This would really help me promote my site since I am just starting it. More power to you!
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Desiztech Feb 5th, 2009 at 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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HirenModi Feb 12th, 2009 at 14:45

Oh wow awesome collection, Thanks

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James Armstrong Feb 19th, 2009 at 09:49

Thanks for the list Almost all of the above sites have been very valuable to me.

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Jonathan Patterson Feb 20th, 2009 at 17:24

That’s a pretty good list.
Pliggs Feb 21st, 2009 at 00:17

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Dainis Graveris Feb 23rd, 2009 at 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!
Jason Green Feb 24th, 2009 at 20:40

Absolutely spot on post, many thanks!
aliaskajan Feb 28th, 2009 at 01:51

thank you!

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Ovi Dogar Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:56

Great list! Thanks for sharing…

Keep up the great work!

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David Hopkins Mar 8th, 2009 at 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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Mike Apr 15th, 2009 at 15:28

Thanks about the Great Info.
And keep up the good work.
God Bless

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pelfusion May 5th, 2009 at 02:07

thanks for sharing…i was already using some of them and a lot of them are new to me

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Nela May 5th, 2009 at 22:30

Thanks for sharing!

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Dicky May 10th, 2009 at 18:59

Thanks for the great list! I just started a new web design blog, and definitely need the list to help promote my blog.

Thanks again!
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thanks for the list.. pretty.
Raymond Selda May 13th, 2009 at 20:24

I submit my article to Script & Style. They are my number one referral site coz they send me a lot of traffic. Thank you for this list.

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Angie Bowen May 14th, 2009 at 22:11

Thanks for adding Arbent! I agree, I don’t really get much traffic from digg. I get a lot more from design float, stumble and the individual sites with community news.

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Graham Smith May 28th, 2009 at 22:32

Great list, I have been waiting for something like this, so well timed. Just one thing, is the list in order of how much traffic you are likely to get? Or have you just listed by how popular the sites are?

Also, have added this post to Designs72 : http://designs72.com/40-promotional-sites-where-to-submit-your-des

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mynameisorman May 29th, 2009 at 12:20

Great list, just what I needed! Appreciated.
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Sulumits Retsambew Jun 2nd, 2009 at 01:29

lolz this is your secret Dainis to explode your blog traffic, thanks for sharing it with us..

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gusnawi chen Jun 7th, 2009 at 16:57

thanks for information and suggestion about how to promote our site. very2 helpful for me.

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Mr. Vector Jun 10th, 2009 at 18:00

Great info and extremely useful. Thanks.

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WebmastersGossip Jun 15th, 2009 at 20:02

very nice list. Thanks for sharing.
Graham Smith Jun 24th, 2009 at 00:20

Just to say, that I use this list as a basis for all my new post submissions. So it’s always open.

Be great if you could update it, as Im sure there are new sites that offer community links etc. Possibly also rate them on ‘likley exposure’?

In any rate, thanks.

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Dainis Graveris Jun 29th, 2009 at 00:06

@Sulumits Retsambew one of the secrets definitely

@gusnawi chen thank you for admiring my work

@Graham Smith oh, I didn’t see that one coming -thanks. Good idea, I could show my average exposure I get from them and recreate the list.

You also may notice I added 4 new sites I found at the end of article, so there are more then 40, don’t worry I am and will be updating this article!