| Article Marketing 101 – How to Drive Traffic to Design Blogs Using 101 Community News Submissions Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT You launched a blog, filled it with jaw dropping tutorials, displayed ads on few corners, opted for an extremely amazing theme and then waited! Now what? Traffic starts pouring in but others are already running away with the goal post. In between the hugger mugger geometry of blogs smoothies are shaken, not stirred! Brains are muddled and thoughts blown away. Without the skyrocketing visitor numbers that blog proves to be a far fetched island which is overflowing with useful information but hidden from the eyes of the beholder. So, what do you do then? How do you look for the niche traffic which your blog is craving for? Well, this article won’t repeat the basics. Rather, we will go through the list of 101 Community News and Article Submission websites for design article marketing. They are worth your time. Trust me!
Obvious Ways to Drive Traffic The ones that I am going to throw light on are very obvious. So obvious that you have already used most of them. I won’t explain them in detail but I want to jot them down so that some nazis don’t complain about me missing out on most of the ways to drive traffic. - Content rich article - Oh! Don’t you already know this? With an article that lacks content that readers are looking for, you are bound to end up nowhere.
- Comment on other similar niche blogs and forums - This is one of the very slowest but sure shot ways to gain niche traffic.
- Guest posting - Once you involve yourself in serious guest posting then you can be rest assured that your tutorials will gain enough publicity and some solid backlinks.
- Link back to other similar niche blogs - You tend to increase conversation when you include the links of other blogs in your tutorials. You tell them that you care and that you are reading them daily. In turn they will link to you whenever they feel necessary.
- Social Media Marketing - Again, you want me to explain this? You want me to teach you the importance of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and the likes? Which bunker do you live in?
- Search Engine Optimization - Basically, SEO is all about pleasing Google. And, we have already talked a lot about SEO so let us just move on.
You know what? I can go on with these obvious ways to gain traffic but you will get bored very soon. So, let us just jump over to the hidden world of community news submissions for design tutorials. A Quick Brush with Community News Websites Before we dive into the world of community news websites, let us understand the tidbits about the same. This information will surely come in handy for those who are new to community news websites: - Basically, community news websites share knowledge that they receive from a submission page that invites readers to submit handy tutorials that are niche specific. Readers submit useful design tutorial links (of there or other blogs) via the submission page. Then the admin of that community website publishes a link to that tutorial on its community page. The idea is simple and proves to be very handy to drive traffic to design blogs if the tutorials are listed on other high end design blogs.
- Advantages - Once your tutorial is listed on a community news website then you get traffic from that website and an important backlink which helps from SEO perspective.
- Disadvantages - It might take several submissions over multiple community news websites before your tutorial is listed on some sort of community website. Also, at times the returns aren’t as big as the efforts.
- It is easy to create your own community news website and submission page. A simple blog like theme which links to external tutorials is all that you need to have your own community news website. You will figure this out when you start checking the plethora of examples that are about to follow. The submission page will be more or less like your contact form with the field titles edited to suit the community news submission page requirements.
- We have published similar lists before too! But, as you know it. You, our readers, constantly search for fresh content so we thought why not go ahead and publish a fresh list of community news websites. So, here they are.
Done! Enough talking! Now, let us dive into the endless list (101 is kind-of endless in itself, right?) of community news websites. Stick around and do try them. NOTE - Please keep the below pointers in mind for all the links that are about to follow: - PageRank and Alexa are bound to change with time. Check latest pagerank here and latest Alexa here.
- PageRank mentioned is the PageRank of community news page of that particular website.
- Alexa mentioned is of the homepage of that website.
- Links to community news page and submit form of that particular website are given for your ease.
- Where required, two extra line of description will be given below each website.
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1. Hongkiat 
- Links, once approved, will be pushed to twitter and Facebook. Also, they “might” be used in future posts of Hongkiat.
2. Tripwire Magazine 
- Charges fee of $2.99 per successful submission.
- Other then the community news page at times the link is also used in various articles.
3. SpeckyBoy 
4. DZone 
- Requires registration but the website is famous enough the fetch important traffic.
5. Design Modo 
- They don’t have their community news page.
- All they do is push your link to their social media profiles which in itself is huge promotion.
6. Folkd 
- Requires registration but returns are great.
7. Abduzeedo 
- Abduzeedo also requires registration before once can submit tutorial links.
8. My Site My Way 
- Temporary PR 4 sitewide backlinks are added advantage.
9. Queness 
- Requires registration before you submit links.
10. InstantShift 
- Links published on sidebar so you get temporary PR 6 backlink.
- Traffic from all the pages of InstantShift.
11. Blog Engage 
12. Design Float 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system.
13. DesignrFix 
- You get a temporary site-wide link from the sidebar which can be at times as strong as a PR6 backlink so this will be worth it.
14. Design Your Way 
15. Design Mag 
- Link, once accepted, will be published on sidebar along with the community page.
16. CSSDrive 
- Links published on the community news page and the PR 5 backlink is worth the try.
17. Design Moo 
- Designmoo is a community for discovering and sharing free PSDs, vectors, textures, patterns, fonts, and more.
- Requires registration.
- Niche crowd and traffic.
18. Top Design Mag 
- Along with the backlink from community news page the links are temporarily published on sidebar.
19. Design Bump 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system.
20. Maniac Dev 
- Links included in posts so the traffic is also worth a shot.
21. Design Newz 
- This is a community news based website only.
- Readers are bound to check the links once they are published.
- Better chances of getting traffic.
22. Premium Coding 
- Temporary PR 4 sitewide backlink from sidebar is added advantage.
23. Pick Me Web 
24. The Design Work 
- 3 latest links are published on sidebar
- Permanent position in community news page.
- The sidebar site-wide link can really be worth it by all means.
25. 10Steps.SG 
26. zaBox 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system to keep news on top.
27. Photoshop Lady 
- Paid submissions.
- Huge traffic and PR benefits.
- For Photoshop tutorials only.
28. The Web Blend 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system.
29. WordPress Arena 
30. Fuel Your Creativity 
31. Good Tutorials 
32. UX Booth 
33. Cruzine 
- Use the “Add Link” button on community news page to submit your link.
34. Graphic Design Junction 
- Sitewide sidebar link of PR 4 for a short interval is also an added advantage.
35. Art Fan Design 
- A site-wide temporary PR 5 backlink comes from the side bar too.
36. Dzine Press 
- Scroll down to the end of community news page in order to submit your link.
- A temporary sidebar sitewide backlink of PR 5 has its own worth.
37. Desizn Tech 
38. Share Brain 
- Use the submit button on the right sidebar to submit your link.
39. PS Deluxe 
40. CSS Creme 
- Used for website submission.
41. The Cool List 
- The link is pushed into single post page.
- Traffic and strength of website is surely worth the submission.
42. Web and Designers 
- Somehow the community page seems to have no PR
- The homepage has PR 5.
- Links included on the homepage or any other post will be worthwhile.
43. Graphic Design Links 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system.
44. My Ink Blog 
45. In Deziner 
- Requires login to submit news.
46. Orphic Pixel 
- Temporary PR 5 sitewide link from sidebar.
47. Concept Dezain 
- The community news page has no PR.
- Temporary PR 5 backlink from sidebar.
48. Nenuno Creative 
49. Designs Mag
- Tutorials appear on sidebar for a short interval.
- A PR 5 backlink is worth all the effort from sidebar backlink.
- The sidebar itself has the form to submit your own links.
50. Flash User 
- The community news page has no PR.
- Temporary backlink from sidebar will have PR worth 3.
51. Visual Blast 
- Scroll down to the end of community news page for tutorial submission.
52. AnimHut 
- Scroll down on community news page to submit articles.
53. Stunning Mesh 
- Scroll down to the end of community news page to submit link.
54. Daily Inspiration 
55. WP Scoop 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system.
56. 9 Rules 
57. Design Dazzling 
- Scroll down on community news page to submit articles.
58. Karachi Corner 
- Sitewide backlink from sidebar of same PR is an added advantage.
59. Multy Shades 
- Temporary PR 4 sitewide backlink from sidebar.
60. KnowteBook 
- Scroll to the end of community news page to submit your link.
- Please remember that the community news page is very lengthy!
61. Kailoon 
62. Design Poke 
63. Admin X Web 
64. Hype Sol 
- No idea about the community news page as there is no detail available.
65. Pixel Groovy 
66. Logolitic 
67. Design Knock 
- PR 4 sitewide backlink from side bar cannot be ignored.
68. QNT Gallery 
- Temporary PR 5 sitewide backlink from sidebar is worth all your efforts.
69. PSD Learning 
- Scroll down to the end of community news page in order to submit your link.
70. Soul Travel Media 
- An added advantage of PR 2 backlink from sidebar.
71. Design Dim - Temporary PR 4 backlink from sidebar is an added advantage.
72. Seize Design 
- Temporary PR 3 backlink from sidebar is added advantage.
- Scroll down to the end of the community news page to submit link.
73. Tutorial’s Palace 
- Scroll down on the community news page in order to submit your tutorial.
74. Divot Design 
- Temporary PR 4 sitewide backlink from sidebar is another added advantage.
75. Blog Web Designer 
- Homepage has PR 3.
- The backlink which one gets is from the single post page so hardly any PR benefits.
76. Andrew Kelsall Design 
- Strict submission rules.
- A post is published every 2 weeks which includes the approved links.
77. WP TidBits 
- The community news page isn’t promoted properly on the home page.
- So, the returns might not be that great.
- But, as WP TidBits is an appreciable design blog so the returns cannot be ignored if the links are included in posts.
78. Designing Mall 
- Use the form in sidebar to submit news link which will be displayed on the sidebar itself.
79. Free Web Elements 
80. Jos Web 
- Community news page has no PR but the temporary sitewide backlink from sidebar is worth PR 3.
81. Webdesign Tutorials 
- No backlink advantage in this case but the traffic per successful submission is really good.
82. Smashing Post 
83. Graphic Tutorials 
84. Cre8ive Commando 
85. Q Index 
86. Design Shovel 
- Requires registration.
- Follows dig like voting system.
87. Little Box of Design 
- Temporary sitewide backlink is an added advantage.
88. CSS Brigit 
- Especially for website submissions instead of tutorial submissions.
89. Top Round Ups 
90. Joyoge 
- Requires logging in
- Follows dig like voting system.
91. Vectorials 
92. Design Shards 
- Requires registration.
- Publishes links on homepage.
93. CSS Depot 
94. Cypher Box 
- Use the submit link on the left sidebar.
95. iAP Design 
96. Fuel Your Interface 
- Links might be included posts too.
97. Learn AI 
98. Vunky Search 
- Click on “Submit Tutorial” link on the top right corner.
99. Web Design News 
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