Getting more visitors on your website is a very complex process with a lot of variables : good SEO, great content, advertising etc. One of the latest trends in design-related websites is the community news feature. Most design news use it now and it can be a very effective way to increase the number of visitors on your website.
The above list is a compilation of design-related websites that can help you promote your website through their community news feature. Some of these websites like zaBox, Design Float, Design Bump are dedicated to this purpose.
Note : All links to submit news pages open in new windows.
zaBox*
Abduzeedo*
Arbenting
CSS Creme
CSS Globe*
Design Related*
Design Bump*
Graphic Design Links*
Design M.ag
Devmarks*
Freelance Folder
9rules*
Help Developer
Loon Design
Naldz Graphics
Nettuts
PSD Learning
PSDTUTS
Script and Style
Vector TUTS
Votetime*
Brush King
CrazyLeaf Design Blog
CSS Drive
CSS Elite
CSS Leak
Design Float*
Dzone*
Fuel Your Creativity
GoMediaZine
Knowtebook
My Ink Blog
Noupe
Pixel Groovy
Smashing Apps
Stylegala*
Visual Blast
Wscoop*
You the Designer
CrazyLeaf Design Blog Community*
Directory of Designers
Online-Photoshop Tutorials
Graphic Design Community*
FBrushes
DeveloperFox
Elite by Design
Colorburned
Woork
Tripwire Magazine
Joyage*
Smashing Post
Geek Sucks
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November 10, 2008 at 12:57 am
Great list, it’s always nice to find new places to submit to.
The Social Media Directory for Designers has a user submitted news section also - http://directoryfordesigners.com/usernews
Thanks for including Arbenting!
My last blog post : Inspiration in Green
November 10, 2008 at 2:16 am
Hey, My website (Online-Photoshop Tutorials) has got one, you can find it here:
http://www.online-photoshoptutorials.com/2008/10/user-link-feed.html
Thanks,
Steve
My last blog post : 17 of the Most Visually Beautiful HDR Images
November 10, 2008 at 3:55 am
Bookmarked! Great list that I will use to promote my articles. Graphic Design Community is also a site to promote your articles.
Thanks
Rachel
AllGraphicDesign.com
November 10, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Thanks for the list, I’ve never thought about using these before…
November 10, 2008 at 7:43 pm
huh more and more amazing list I find around..:) great - i am bookmarking this and putting in use
My last blog post : 30 Sources To Get Your Web Design Inspiration
November 11, 2008 at 12:22 am
Thaks for the list, a bit of them in the list, is my favorites, but i learned new ones now.
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November 11, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Hey also my other website is dedicated to design related articles submitted by users!
http://www.thecreativitywall.com
My last blog post : Illustrator Tutorial - Vector Eve From “Wall-e”
November 11, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for featuring Votetime! Love zabox!
My last blog post : 41 websites to promote your design articles and resources | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
November 11, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Very handy, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Dugg and Stumbled.
My last blog post : The Beginner’s Guide To Finding A Job With Twitter
November 11, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Wow, this is great. I didn’t know there were that many sites out there to help promote your articles on. This is definately getting saved. Thank you.
November 11, 2008 at 9:39 pm
@Styletime … Thanks for the appreciation. Votetime’s cool. I like it.
@Jacob… Thanks for sharing. Much appreciated.
November 12, 2008 at 11:20 am
Great list, also
http://developerfox.com/add-news
My last blog post : Web Hosting Search: Find Reliable Hosting Companies
November 12, 2008 at 1:32 pm
@developerfox … Added your website to the list.
November 12, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Woohoo, this list is amazing! Come on… traffic
My last blog post : A note on accessibility - body background colours
November 12, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Design your way also has a user link submission page: http://www.boogiesbc.ro/blog/design-news/
November 12, 2008 at 8:24 pm
How’d you forget me?? hehe jk
http://cardeo.ca
My last blog post : Cardeo Shop Now Open!
November 12, 2008 at 8:38 pm
@Cardeo … I didn’t forget. I didn’t see a community news section on cardeo.ca . If there is please submit the URL to the submission page.
@boogiesbc … Sorry … there were so many websites to submit I forgot about Design your way. I’ve added it to the list.
November 13, 2008 at 2:08 am
Wow, very good collection. Some of them are Pligg based. I had bookmarked them.
Thanks for the list!
November 13, 2008 at 5:25 am
Great set of resources! I should have thought of this myself…lol. This is another example of great content for SEO.
November 15, 2008 at 11:14 am
Great collection. These are the best way to promote.
November 15, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Nice collections and i bookmarked myself this is also the best way to promote website in great manner
November 16, 2008 at 5:36 pm
You should come to my forum some day!
It has a big artistic section,
and getting in the graphics squad gives you access to tons of free premium downloads!
Each week there’s a big AOTW (art of the week) contest,
this week 50,000 store credits to win!
http://www.exploration-x.info
November 21, 2008 at 10:21 pm
A very useful post. Thanks much.
December 4, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Added Elite by Design to the list.
February 27, 2009 at 12:03 am
Geez. You just gave me a pile of more work to do.
Thanks for the info.
April 23, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Great list. You can now submit design links on http://designis.ms as well
May 12, 2009 at 2:02 pm
These are really some great resources, I would also recommend you to send your fresh articles to us at http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com we will place your articles on our website.
May 12, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Thanks for these valuable resources. We will definitely give these resources a try.
June 30, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Great roundup, very useful to promote articles or resource sites.
June 30, 2009 at 12:41 pm
ohh, Geek Sucks also accept user submitted links :p
http://www.geeksucks.com
June 30, 2009 at 1:22 pm
thanks for adding. keep up the great work
June 30, 2009 at 11:53 pm
@Shabu - Added Geek Sucks.
Also added Smashing Post.
July 1, 2009 at 8:09 am
@ Alex - Thanks a lot
July 1, 2009 at 8:15 am
Thanks for keeping our site in this value able post. http://www.geeksucks.com/