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Get More Traffic: 18 Social Media Sites for Web Designers
Yes, it's great to get your article on the front page of Digg's design section — you get a huge traffic spike; hopefully your site stays up; you get a bunch of snarky comments — but it's not exactly easy to do.
Fortunately, there are alternatives. Here are 18 web design-related social media sites that are easier to rank well on and will keep sending quality traffic your way.
It's worth pointing out that in the interest of keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high, only submit your best posts to these sites. This will help them to increase their readership and thus send more traffic your way — a virtuous circle, if you will.
Social Media Sites for Web Designers
- design:related
- Design Float
- CSS Globe (Community News section)
- Noupe
- Pixel Groovy
- DevelopersNiche
- Stylegala (Public News section)
- Behance Network (Tip Exchange section)
- Markup Tutorials
- Web Design Library
- DZone
- Design Sites Up
- StyleIgnite
- Mixx (Design category)
- tweako (Web Design section)
- TTiqq (Internet category)
- Sphinn (SEO-focused)
- SEO TAGG (SEO-focused)
Bonus: It's worth submitting your very best posts to Smashing Magazine for inclusion in their best of the month digest. Newcomer Posh CSS will let you submit CSS-related articles for inclusion on their site.
Now then, what gems have I missed?
Posted on: March 7, 2008 | 26 Comments
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26 Comments Posted
I didn't know smashing magazine accepted submissions for their best of the month series. I will have to consider it then. Do you know of there is some sort of deadline? I write mainly about blog designs so I think I would be able to contribute something to their list. Thanks.
1. Posted by Vinh Le on March 10, 2008
Great list of social media sites, do you agree that SMM (social media marketing) plays a huge roll in the present and future of SEO (search engine optimisation)?
2. Posted by Nick Search on March 10, 2008
"submission" in the text above are not ment as the JUDO-CLOW..!
3. Posted by Lars Frost on March 10, 2008
Thanks for the list. This has been very helpful in starting our blog. If you would be kind and review us, we would much appreciate it!
www.ardis-creative.com/blog
4. Posted by Miranda Larsen on March 10, 2008
This is a great List!
5. Posted by Brett on March 10, 2008
CSS Globe???
I have found a few articles and subscribed to a few rss feeds through them.
6. Posted by Jermayn Parker on March 10, 2008
Vinh — they don't formally accept submissions, but they're always on the lookout for good content, so you can always try emailing them.
Miranda — you're welcome! Re. your blog, I don't think I'll be subscribing. Your posts seem a little too self-promotional for me.
7. Posted by Christian Watson on March 10, 2008
Nice list - I have been looking for some design-related blogs/websites and then 17 come at once! Makes a change from using the Cool Homepages site/forum which is not very busy these days.
8. Posted by Matt Saunders on March 11, 2008
This is a great list of sites for submitting to. Regardless of what some of old guard still say, SMO is an integral part of online marketing. The conversion rate may not be all that special, but as a way to build your brand and position yourself as an authority it rates second to none.
Great stuff!
9. Posted by Essence SEO UK on March 13, 2008
thanks for posting the list, those sites are good as they focus on web design and seo, unlike the mainstream ones like Digg etc.
10. Posted by James Creare on March 13, 2008
These social media sites are very good and will certainly bring quality traffic to your site. Thanks for that nice list, I will try some of them and see what happens:)
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12. Posted by Milwaukee Web Design on March 13, 2008
Thanks for the links this helps.
13. Posted by Jeff Milinichik on March 13, 2008
It's Good & Interesting. T like it... Keep it up..
Laxman Bhattarai
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14. Posted by Laxman Bhattarai on March 14, 2008
What about Noupe.com? We added "News Posting feature" a couple of days ago and we are happy to get the best design related posts to our front page.
15. Posted by Noura Yehia on March 14, 2008
Excellent. Thanks for the info and links.
Regards
16. Posted by Web Design Liverpool on March 14, 2008
thanks for putting together this list! i'm actually mid-redesign on my personal portfolio site so this will be a great help when it's up and running.
17. Posted by details on March 14, 2008
Thanks for the links this helps.
18. Posted by Martin on March 18, 2008
It would be my pleasure to say thank you for the links. It will really helps me a lot. Thanks.
Juricks2Web.com
19. Posted by Erickson Empasis on March 19, 2008
Great list. There are 2 others Graphic Design Community and Design Sites Up
20. Posted by Rachel Goldstein on March 19, 2008
Nice list, thanks . SMM definitely goes hand in hand with todays SEO, it is a great way to get huge exposure and build credibility quickly .
Kris
21. Posted by Custom Web Design Kris on March 22, 2008
Great list of sites.
Thanks,
22. Posted by James on March 24, 2008
Great list! Keep it up!
23. Posted by Braintrove.com on April 01, 2008
Thanks for this. I am just starting to dig into SEO and this seems like a real bonus for me to research and increase the popularity of my site.
24. Posted by Sweet Emotions Floral on April 02, 2008
Here is another great artile about the volume of traffic, you can get from social media sites. Not surprisingly, Stumbleupon come number one. www.seoco.co.uk/blog/2008/02/19/social-media-traffic/
25. Posted by Atiq on April 29, 2008
Great list my friend. If you add more Css related websites like Css gallery, Css Elite that would be great and this list can be more useful. Also add some flash related websites.
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