Web Design - Top Social Media Websites for Web Design
Social media or social networking websites are an excellent source for creating extra traffic for your company’s website or blog.
If you are a web design company or a freelance web designer, you can benefit from additional exposure on niche social media websites that target web design, graphic design or web development. Social media sites not only provide additional exposure but also improve back links to your web design related resources on your website. Most of these sites allow you publish either articles or links to web design related resources or pages on your site or blog. This also offers opportunities for deep linking to internal pages, which is often not addressed by traditional link building methods that focus on getting back links to the homepage of your website. However it is important that they are not used to spam. While it is OK to use social media to drive traffic to your site, it should only be done to focus attention on resources that can be valuable to others.
The list below includes some interesting and useful social media websites related specially to the web design or development industry. Some of the obvious, established names such as reddit or digg have been left out from the list. You may already be aware of such sites and also because it can be quite difficult to make it to the first page due to competition.
1) Web Design Library
Url: www.WebDesign.Org
Web Design Library
A useful resource for web design and graphic design related articles targeting designers and professionals. Comprehensive tutorials covering popular web design fields including html, php, photoshop ,flash and site maintenance.
PR: 6
Submission guidelines:
- Free Account and Login required.
- Site showcase section where you can submit a link to your site with description for inclusion subject to strict, manual review/approval.
- Does not allow standard submissions of links or bookmarks.
- Submit detailed tutorials in related to graphic design. An author link to you website will be included with each approved article.
Other features:
- User rating and comments( without links) on website showcase section.
2) Tweako
Url: www.Tweako.com
Web Design Site Tweako
Tweako offers information guides and tutorials related to computing and technology. It offers a number of ways to share content including full articles or social bookmark style links. Another positive point for Tweako is the high traffic it receives.
PR: N/a
Submission guidelines:
- Free account and Login required.
- You can post full articles with 35% adsense revenue share.
- You can also post links to stories or posts within your site with description, title and link.
- You can even create forum topics.
3) PixelGroovy
URL: www.pixelgroovy.com
Web Design PixelGroovy
Site History
Found on May 5, 2006
PR 3
Pixel Groovy is a tutorial directory for web and graphic design related topics. The content is fully user driven. Tutorials are submitted by users themselves. It is another website on this list which receives higher traffic.
Submission guidelines:
- Free account and Login required.
- Submit links to tutorials with title, description and url only instead of submitting full articles.
- Users can vote or comment on other tutorials.
4) Design-Newz
URL: www.design-newz.com
Web Design Newz
As the name suggests, this is a user submitted news website for articles, resources and tutorials written by other designers and web developers. They are soon to launch a blog on the site which is currently in development.
PR 5
Submission guidelines:
- No login required.
- Submit links to tutorials with title only. No description or full articles.
5) ScriptandStyle
URL: www.scriptandstyle.com
Web Design Script and Style
Script & Style is a useful social media site for web designers and developers to promote web design/development related articles.
PPR4
Submission guidelines:
- No login required.
- Submit links to tutorials with description only. No full articles.
6) DesignFloat
URL: www.designfloat.com
Web Design - Design Float
Design Float is a growing social media website that focuses primarily on web design. Compared to some other sites, the traffic may be lower but is highly targeted towards web designers.
PR5
Submission guidelines:
- Login and free account.
- Submit links to tutorials with description only. No full articles.
- 3 step submission with captcha validation
- Top user feature which is easier to feature in than most other sites
7) Dzone
url: www.dzone.com
DZone Web Design Portal
Dzone is similar to Reddit but specifically targets web developers. The website offers a similar voting system to Reddit. It is a useful resource for new links from web developers.
Submission guidelines:
- Login and free account.
- Submit links to tutorials with description only. No full articles.
- They have a stricter spam control policy and only allow 3 links from one domain per day.
Other Features:
My account where you can view your posted links and also watch links for email notification.
SlashDot
URL: www.slashdot.org
Web Design - SlashDot
Slashdot focuses on technology, but often crosses into the design realm.
PR 9
Submission guidelines:
- Login and free account.
- Submit links to tutorials with description only. No full articles.
Other Features:
- My account where you can view your posted links and also watch links for email notification.
9) Pixel2Life
URL: www.pixel2life.com
Pizel2Life Website Design Portal
Pixel2life is also one of the largest source of tutorial index catering to graphic designers, webmasters and programmers. You can submit links to tutorials or create a full tutorial page. There is an extra opportunity for SEO as a link to the homepage in addition to link to the tutorial page is published with each submission.
Submission guidelines:
- Free account and login required.
- Submit links to tutorials on your site. Link to tutorial, plus link to homepage and title published.
- You can also write full articles. Author box is automatically included at the end with link o website and profile.
Other Features:
- Forum
10) QBN
URL: www.qbn.com
QBN Web Design Magazine
Design Industry News & Discussion website. A unique website targeting creative industries with an innovative way to promote popular resources. It also features a paid Job section for design related jobs. You can post discussions on the wall with or without links. Works quite differently to other sites mentioned in this list. Users seem largely New York based in my optinion.
PR 6
Submission guidelines:
- Free account and Login required.
- Instead of publishing standard stories with link and description, you can either post a short message directly to their wall. Links can be included within the post itself.
- You can also post image slideshow or a single image along with a title and link to the design related resource or story on the web.
- Also features design jobs section where users can post.
11) Design Moo
URL: www.designmoo.com
Another user generate content driven website for web designers. It works similar to other social bookmarking sites.
Submission guidelines:
- Login and account required. Free.
- Post story links with title, url and description. Not complete articles.
Other features:
- My account section where all your submissions are stored.
- Twitter integration – Users can also easily tweet your post.
- You can also vote or comment on other posts. Although comments do not links to website but to user profile.
12) Design Bump
URL: www.designbump.com
Web Design Bump
PR: N/A
Another user generate content driven website for web designers. A social-bookmarking site with other features.
Submission guidelines:
- Login and account required. Free.
- Post story links with title, url and description. Not complete articles.
Other features:
- My account section where all your submissions are stored.
- Twitter integration – Users can also easily tweet your post.
- You can also vote or comment on other posts. Although comments are not with links to site but to profile. Your profile has a do-follow link to your website.
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Really useful list here. Great post. It would have been cool to see some traffic figures to each site from compete.com to get an idea of the potential traffic on offer.
Remember, one thing that everyone forgets about social media, is that it’s as much about listening as it is about talking. It’s important you’re monitoring and watching the right channels to get the most out of it.
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Phil, Thank you for your suggestion. I would like to expand this post at some point and include potential traffic information. Thank you for letting me know about compete.com.
Someone emailed me the other day asking me why I have left some of the top sites like Digg from my list. Well, as suggested in the introductory paragraph, most of us are already familiar with the top sites so I thought I will cover the less obvious ones this time.
Some other websites like squidoo or Hubpages should not be overlooked even though they may not be related only to web design. The list here is great but I want to add that if you want all round exposure then you should not forget to target the general Websites as well.
Do you people really allow somebody to comment or have just the problem i am trying from last 25 min to comment a genuine comment but your stupid system always say you are too fast …….Stupid system fix it otherwise no body would be at your blog.
Dear James, I can see that you have been able to comment after all. We have a standard comment system, however it has a standard check to prevent posting of multiple comments too quickly, as a way to prevent usual spams. I am sorry that you experienced problems. I will check our system a few time just to ensure all is OK. Apologies once again.
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