How To Promote Your Posts in 10 Minutes to 1 Mio People

September 16, 2008 in business how-to

Getting a lot of traffic even if your content is first class, can be quite tricky if nobody knows your website. Learn how to get known to a huge audience within 10 minutes by promoting your posts to more than 30 of well visited websites. This is a totally free kind of marketing. Enjoy!

As others tried to collect some sites to promote your posts, we found it a bit confusing to check so many different collections and created our own list. By the way, it is a little secret of our success, which got under the top 100.000 alexa ranking during the last days.

How to start

The method we are using is to tease our content at communities or user link sections of other great known and visited websites. We will need all times the same information and it will go much faster, if we prepare a list of the post details with:

post title (max. 10 words),
post description (max. 20 words),
post url,
tags for the post and
a teaser image on your desktop.

Be advised not to use spammy words, since most of the sites will kick your news out and your chance is lost. If a registration is required or some other anti-spam question is to answer, your post will arrive for sure, so don’t bother the long way.

Sites to promote your post

These are all great sites, but we have listed them in the order we think they succeeded the best for us. It might not fit for you, but we would love to hear your own experiences. Just leave a comment!

Knowtebook

Of course, send us your news and get known to 40.000 people right a way!

Submit to Knowbook

CSS Globe

Great for all kind of premium posts. Registration required.

Submit to CSS Globe

Abduzeedo

Registration required.

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Submit to Abduzeedo

design float

Registration required.

Submit to design float

NETTuts

Submit to NETTuts

designbump

Registration required.

Submit to designbump

CSS Drive

A huge CSS audience. Choose “New webdesign news” in form.

Submit to CSS Drive

DesignM.ag

Submit to DesignMag

graphicdesign Links

Submit to graphicdesign Links

dzone

Registration required.

Submit to dzone

KreativUse

Submit to KreativUse

CssLeak

Submit to CssLeak

You the Designer

Submit to You the Designer

design:related

Registration required.

Submit to design:related

Freelance Folder

Submit to Freelance Folder

SyleGala

Submit to SyleGala

CSSelite

Submit to CSSelite

CSSTEA

Submit to CSSTEA

Script & Style

Submit to Script & Style

ShareBrain

Submit to ShareBrain

myInkBlog.com

Submit to myInkBlog.com

PSD Learning

Submit to PSD Learning

Smashing Apps

Submit to Smashing Apps

CSS creme

Submit to CSS creme

Help Developer

Submit to Help Developer

What to do after submitting?

It won’t stop. Check after some hours the first results and optimize your post. Add a advice for subscribing to your rss feed or give some similar links beneath the post. If you like or need, use a heatmap tool and check out the hot zones to place an advertisment there. But the most important thing is to KEEP THE USERS ON YOUR SITE. Sometimes it justs helps already to say a thank you to the comment writers.

What is your favorite?

Tell us, which of the sites work best for you and why (comment)! Any suggestions? Let us know!

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Forex Business Review
Dec 05, 2009
No: 35 / ID: 5313

A great list Indeed! Will try it out Thanks a ton

mike
Aug 13, 2009
No: 34 / ID: 4663

GReat list

Derek Kimball
Jul 09, 2009
No: 33 / ID: 4489

I love posts like this. Noupe.com (listed in this post) gave me quite a few hits when I submitted a couple of tutorials/articles. There are some design link sites in this post that I’m not familiar with, so thanks a bunch!

Jamp Mark
Mar 08, 2009
No: 32 / ID: 4060

never heard most of the sites in the list before. this is awesome. thanks for sharing

Chadlonius
Jan 23, 2009
No: 31 / ID: 3770

Awesome list and great resource.

kovilen
Nov 12, 2008
No: 30 / ID: 3204

That’s a great list, Thanks!!!

thomas
Nov 03, 2008
No: 29 / ID: 3100

Hi everyone,
yesterday we launched http://brainsites.info . Its actually not a site where you can promote your articles but your site. Its a toplist for webdesign related sites ONLY. We have categories from CSS, resources, showcases to graphics, photoshop, wordpress etc …
So if you want to promote your site over there visit http://brainsites.info and join us.

devmarks.com
Sep 28, 2008
No: 28 / ID: 2746

Hi,
yesterday i launched http://devmarks.com - another site you can submit your design & dev related articles too. so Maybe you like it and we see us there

greetings,
thomas

Q5 Webdesign
Sep 25, 2008
No: 27 / ID: 2727

Great overview!!! Thanks so much really helpfull!

Dezignus
Sep 24, 2008
No: 26 / ID: 2721

Thanks a lot, It’s Great

Knowtebook
Sep 19, 2008
No: 25 / ID: 2671

thank you for the hint. fixed

DesignFloat
Sep 19, 2008
No: 24 / ID: 2669

Hey,

thanks for a great list.

But you have a url bug in anchor DesignM.ag
The URL is ttp://designm.ag/
without h

Simon North
Sep 18, 2008
No: 23 / ID: 2654

Nice list and thanks for adding my site. There’s a few there that I don’t submit to so I think I’ll be updating my bookmarks. Cheers

Knowtebook
Sep 17, 2008
No: 22 / ID: 2650

@ Synergy…: Hey, these are for webworker sites in general. CSS & Design should work pretty good, since we post a lot of that kind to these sites.

Ross
Sep 17, 2008
No: 21 / ID: 2644

Hey, thanks for including PSDlearning up there, I’ve seen a few lists like this but this is the best yet!

An Jay
Sep 17, 2008
No: 20 / ID: 2638

Interesting list. Thanks for adding Smashingapps.com in the list

Harry Roberts
Sep 17, 2008
No: 19 / ID: 2634

I’m getting a bit tired of CSS Globe to be honest. I’m always submitting useful stuff and never getting anything showcased, it was at the point I was convinced there was something wrong with my account so I emailed explaining the (potential) problems and no reply. I’ll be looking through your suggestions methinks.

Synergy Informatics Hosting
Sep 17, 2008
No: 18 / ID: 2633

Nice collection of high traffic sites, Is this particular to Css & Design interest?

loswl
Sep 17, 2008
No: 17 / ID: 2626

These are some great tips!!..I will use some of them, although I know these tips do not appy to all blog sites :o)

Tommy M
Sep 16, 2008
No: 16 / ID: 2618

Forgot StumbleUpon. If your post gets picked, you can get up to 2,000 visits in just a few hours. It happened on my website.

aravind
Sep 16, 2008
No: 15 / ID: 2617

I love this post!

Matt
Sep 16, 2008
No: 14 / ID: 2615

Nice collection, I always appreciate a centralized location of good links. It makes my life easier, thanks!

adelle
Sep 16, 2008
No: 13 / ID: 2610

I think this would be an interesting discussion to throw around the community -
personally I would probably research it out first to see who posted first - but in many cases - people won’t do that and just go with the “bigger” site. Your absolutely right.

I believe on the other hand that chances are it was the smaller site and they copied knowing damn right your article was a good one to gain readers.

Alex | CrazyLeaf Design
Sep 16, 2008
No: 12 / ID: 2606

That’s quite a list. Thanks for adding CrazyLeaf Design Blog to it.

Knowtebook
Sep 16, 2008
No: 11 / ID: 2605

@adelle: yeah, an article how to deal with stolen content. there are many out there on freelancing blogs, but it is always an interesting topic. I understand you, but it seems to be theory. the problem is when the post is not unique enough, it is easy to copy. in our case, it was a quick post for some new vectors. a big site “got inspired” of that post 3 hours after we published it, and made EXACTLY the same post. who would you believe, the bigger or the smaller site?

adelle
Sep 16, 2008
No: 10 / ID: 2602

Good question, thus far I haven’t really seen anyone “steal” my content/posts, seen a lot of similar ones, but who hasn’t, I think it’s all in the delivery of the article and what you bring to the discussion even if they are similar. I would like to hear others opinions on their content being stolen - may be a good post to work on! > It’s all yours

If the blog or site (big or small) has great content, visitors will keep coming back I think & the community seems to look out for each other - if someone steals your content, you will probably know within 10 minutes via twitter

Google Yahoo Merger
Sep 16, 2008
No: 9 / ID: 2601

thanks for posting this, very helpful!!

Knowtebook
Sep 16, 2008
No: 8 / ID: 2600

@Assault: I dont really get wat QBN is. Have your any experience with it?

@NaldzGraphics: You are welcome. When preparing the list and having registered everywhere, it gets pretty easy in that time frame, because most sites use the same form field names and you can just click on the field and choose the value you desire and do not need to get back to your list and copy & paste it again. Maybe we should make a ranking: who is the fastest submitter.

@adelle: Since some famous sites start to steal our content, we think we must go offensive and submitt the content as fast as possible so that nobody else can claim it. What are your experiences with it?

adelle
Sep 16, 2008
No: 7 / ID: 2598

This is a great list and thanks for adding fuelyourcreativity.com to it! I notice for the most part I get high quality news links submitted to the site and I hope that keeps up! I submit my posts/articles to 5-6 of these sites, but after reading this post, I’m going to have to add a few more!

NaldzGraphics
Sep 16, 2008
No: 6 / ID: 2596

great.thanks for this list. i always promote my post on some of the list above but others are new to me:)thanks again. you make my work easy:)
it took me 30mins-1hr thought promoting my posts:)

Ronald

Assault
Sep 16, 2008
No: 5 / ID: 2595

Not sure I saw QBN on there, but the public broadcast on QBN is a great place to post quality material.

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