100+ Places To Promote For Free

Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 | Posted in Blog | Posted by Craig | 19 Comments

100+ Places To Promote For Free

Have you ever created something awesome, that you wanted the world to see, and nobody seems to know how to find it?

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Everytime I write a tutorial I have the painstaking process of promoting it, in doing so I have built up a reasonable selection of websites that allow tutorial submissions and user-link submissions, which I have decided to share with you. These really do help to drive traffic to your truly awesome content you have created =)

…provided it is actually truly awesome, as most of these link submissions are manually administered. So be prepared for one or two rejections.

NOTE: Be sure not to SPAM these sites, or you will be black listed. You must be providing links that are relevant and useful to the design community. Everyone hates SPAM.

Paid Submission

If you are a Tutorial Writer out to make fast cash, then paid submissions are definitely the way forward. Sites like PSDTuts will pay you $150 for a successful tutorial submission. You will also be able to build up a name for yourself and get people talking about your work a lot quicker.

However, if you are reading this page because you want to build a Tutorial/Resource website of your own, that will in time generate its own community and revenue, then these should be avoided.

$150 is a nice sum of money, but it these sites will make you forfeit your right to upload the tutorial to any other website, including your own. So you make $150 for a few hours work, but that work and your lack of rights to it, will earn somebody else substantially more.

1st Web Designer
Payment: $30-$40
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/contribute/

Active Tuts
Payment: $150
http://active.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial

Ae Tuts
Payment: $150
http://ae.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial

CG Tuts
Payment: $150
http://cg.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial

Design Ora
Payment: Negotiable
http://designora.com/contact/

Go Mediazine
Payment: Up To $300
http://www.gomediazine.com/contribute/

Flash Mint
Payment: $150
http://tuts.flashmint.com/get-paid-to-write/

HV Designs
Payment: Up To $100
http://hv-designs.co.uk/article-submission/

Mad Tuts
Payment: Writer Exposure/Backlink
http://www.madtuts.com/write-for-us/

Naldz Graphics
Payment: Writer Exposure/Backlink
http://naldzgraphics.net/write-for-us/

Net Tuts
Payment: $150
http://net.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial/

Photo Tuts
Payment: $150
http://photo.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial

Photoshop Star
Payment: Negotiable
http://www.photoshopstar.com/contribute/

Photoshop Tutorials
Payment: $150-$300
http://photoshoptutorials.ws/

PSD Delux
Payment: $50
http://www.psdeluxe.com/write-for-us.html

PSD Tuts
Payment: $150
http://psd.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial/

Royal Tutorial
Payment: Writer Exposure/Backlinks
http://royaltutorial.com/write-for-royal-tutorial/

Site Point
Payment: $100 + Bonuses
http://www.sitepoint.com/about/writeforus

Tech Labs
Payment: $100
http://www.thetechlabs.com/become-an-author/

Tutorial 9
Payment: $150-$300
http://www.tutorial9.net/get-paid-to-write/

Tutorial Board
Payment: Up To $150
http://www.tutorialboard.net/get-paid-to-write/

Tuts Arena
Payment: Writer Exposure/Backlink
http://tutsarena.com/write-for-us/

Vector Diary
Payment: $150
http://www.vectordiary.com/tutorial-submission/

Vector Tuts
Payment: $150
http://vector.tutsplus.com/about/write-a-tutorial/

Direct Submission

The direct submission sites do not drive as much traffic your way as the registration sites, as they usually don’t involve an image upload, and your links do not stand out from the crowd without an image.

However, they are much quicker ways of promoting as you don’t have to register to a load of different sites and wait for verification emails etc. Many of these direct submission sites have thousands of subscribers to their link feeds, so your little link, even though it wont stand out, will be seen by many.

Mad Tuts
Image: Yes
Location: Main Page
http://www.madtuts.com/submit-link/

10 Steps
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://10steps.sg/community-link/#submitfeed

2Witt
Image: No
Location: Submit Article Button (Top Right)
http://2twitt.com/index.php

Active Tuts – Community Link Feed
Image: No
Loaction: Main Page
http://active.tutsplus.com/link-feed/#add

AE Tuts – Community Link Feed
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://ae.tutsplus.com/link-feed/#add

Arbenting Freebies
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://arbent.net/blog/

Blog Round
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.bloground.ro/submit-post/#tdomf_form2

Brush King
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.brushking.eu/submit_news.php

Build Internet
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://buildinternet.com/news/#fvCommunityNewsForm

CG Tuts – Community Link Feed
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://cg.tutsplus.com/link-feed/#add

Cheth Studios
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.chethstudios.net/2009/04/submit-design-news-on-chethstudios.html

Color Burned
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://colorburned.com/link-feed#submit

Crazy Leaf Design – Note: Usually SPAM filters reject posts
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/user-submitted-links/#add

CSS Drive
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/submit/

CSS Leak
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.cssleak.com/submit_news.php

CSS Style
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.cssstyle.me/index.php?mode=memo&submode=new

Design Dazzling
Image: No
Location: Sidebar
http://www.designdazzling.com/#submit

Design JoJo
Image: No
Location: Submit Button (Right of the Logo)
http://designjojo.com/

Design M
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://designm.ag/submit-news/

The Design Mag
Image: No
Location: Sidebar
http://thedesignmag.com/

Design Newz
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://design-newz.com/submit-newz/

Design Shards
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://designshards.com/submit-link/

Desizn Tech
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://desizntech.info/submit-link/

Design Your Way
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/submit/

Designr Fix
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://designrfix.com/category/news#submitfeed

Dev Snippets
Image: Yes
Location: Main Page
http://devsnippets.com/submit

Deziner Folio
Image: Yes
Location: Main Page
http://www.dezinerfolio.com/linksubmit

Espreson
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.espreson.com/archive-index/community-news/

Fav Share
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://favshare.net/favshare-your-article/

FBrushes
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://fbrushes.com/community-links/#add

Fuel Your Creativity
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/user-link-feed/

Graphic Mania
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.graphicmania.net/news-archive/

Hong Kiat
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/submit-news-tips/

Instant Shift
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.instantshift.com/user-submitted-news/

Knowte Book
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2009/07/15/question-of-the-week-9-advertising/

My Ink Blog
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.myinkblog.com/design-news/#submit

Net Tuts – Community Link Feed
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://net.tutsplus.com/link-feed/#add

Pixel Element
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.pixelelement.com/news/node/add/drigg

Pixelactic
Image: No
Location: Sidebar
http://pixelactic.com/

PS Delux
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.psdeluxe.com/submit-link.html

PSD Fan
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://psdfan.com/user-link-feed/

PSD Learning
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://psdlearning.com/2008/07/user-links/

PSD Tuts – Community Link Feed
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://psd.tutsplus.com/link-feed/#add

QNT
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.quandtnet.de/submit/

Scarlet Bits
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://scarletbits.com/user-news/#respond

Script and Style
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://scriptandstyle.com/submit

Smashing Post
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.smashingpost.com/submit-post/

Specky Boy Design Magazine
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://speckyboy.com/submit-or-recommend-a-design-resource/

Tripwire Magazine
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/submit-user-link

Tutorials Palace
Image: No
Location: Sidebar
http://www.tutorialspalace.com/#submit

Tutorio
Image: Yes
Location: Main Page
http://www.tutorio.com/info/submit

Vector Tuts – Community Link Feed
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://vector.tutsplus.com/link-feed/#add

Visual Blast
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.visual-blast.com/community-links/#add

Web and Designers
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.webanddesigners.com/user-link-feed

Web Design Tuts
Image: No
Location: Sidebar
http://webdesigntuts.com/

Web Design-ne
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://www.webdesign-ne.ws/submit/

Web Dev Codex
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://webdevcodex.com/community-links/

Woork
Image: No
Location: Main Page
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/02/add-design-news-on-woork.html

Wordpress Arena
Image: No
Location: Main Page Footer
http://wparena.com/community-news/

Registration Required

As we outlined earlier, these sites are generally better at diverting traffic to your site, for three simple reasons:

They usually allow you to upload an image to show how awesomely cool your content is.
More people read the tutorials than the user-link feed.
Spammers tend to hit the Direct Submission Links much harder than the registered ones. Therefor your awesomely cool content does not get lost in a sea of rubbish, SPAM and irrelevant links, meaning you have a relevant link, on the New Submissions page, for a longer period of time!

You must register to these sites in order to submit your links. It sounds annoying (and believe me it is), but the returns you get mean you would be crazy not to. The difference between using these and not using these can be as much as 500 visitors per day. So suck it up and register, you only have to do it once. Hint: When registering to these sites try and find a really unique user name that nobody else is likely to have on any website in the world. Whether you add numbers to it or whatever, just make it really unique. That way you can register to every single site with the exact same user name and password, making it substantially easier to promote next time you come to use these links.

Blog Engage
Image: No
http://www.blogengage.com/login.php?return=/submit.php

Capital Tutorials
Image: Yes
http://www.capitaltutorials.com/addtutorial.php

CG Links
Image: Yes
http://www.cg-links.com/submit-link.php

CG Tutorials
Image: Yes
http://www.cgtutorials.com/submit

CSS Creme
Image: No
http://csscreme.com/submitarticle

Cypher Box
Image: No
http://www.cypherbox.net/submit

Delicious
Image: Auto
http://delicious.com/save

Design Bump
Image: No
http://designbump.com/submit

Design Float
Image: No
http://www.designfloat.com/submit/

Design Moo
Image: No
http://designmoo.com/submit

Design Related
Image: No
http://design-related.com/

Deviant Art
Image: Yes
http://www.deviantart.com/submit/deviation

Digg
Image: Auto
http://digg.com/submit/

DZone
Image: No
http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html

FAQ Pal
Image: No
http://www.faqpal.com/submit

Folkd
Image: No
http://www.folkd.com/page/submit.html

FS Tutorials
Image: Yes
http://www.fstutorials.com/

GFX Tuts
Image: Yes
http://gfxtuts.com/submit/

Good Tutorials
Image: Yes
http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/new

Graphic Design Links
Image: No
http://www.graphic-design-links.com/login.php?return=/submit.php

Hypesol
Image: No
Vote: No
http://links.hypesol.com/submit_article.php

In Deziner
Image: Auto
http://indeziner.com/submit-to-gallery/

Joyage
Image: No
http://www.joyoge.com/submit.php

Luxa
Image: Yes
http://luxa.org/

Mixx
Image: Yes
http://www.mixx.com/submit

Mr Wongs
Image: Auto
http://www.mister-wong.com/add_url/

Pixel 2 Life
Image: Yes
http://www.pixel2life.com/submit/

Photoshop Roadmap
Image: Yes
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Submit-links

Propeller
Image: Yes (Post Incorporated)
http://www.propeller.com/story/submit/

PS Lover
Image: Yes
http://www.pslover.com/add.php

Pure Graphics
Image: Yes
http://pure-graphics.org/plug.php?p=tutorials&a=atut&id=0

PXL Eyes
Image: Yes
http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/ext-submit/

Reddit
Image: Auto
http://www.reddit.com/submit

StumbleUpon
Image: Auto
http://www.stumbleupon.com/discover/activity/

Submit Design Dazzling
Image: No
http://submit.designdazzling.com/submit.php

Tip’d
Image: No
http://tipd.com/login.php?return=%2Fsubmit

Top Clique
Image: Yes
http://www.tipclique.com/register/?from=submit-a-tutorial

Top Roundups
Image: Auto
http://toproundups.com/submit/

Total Tutorial
Image: Yes
http://www.totaltutorial.com/

Tutorial Advisor
Image: Yes
http://www.tutorialadvisor.com/how_to_add_link.php

Tutorial Index
Image: Yes
http://tutorial-index.com/site/site_submit_tutorial/

Tutorial Kit
Image: Yes
http://www.tutorialkit.com/submit.html

Tutorial Man
Image: Yes
http://www.tutorialman.com/submit.php

Tutorial Out Post
Image: Yes
http://tutorialoutpost.com/submit

Tutorials Garden
Image: Yes
http://www.tutorialsgarden.com/submit/

Tutorialized
Image: Yes
http://www.tutorialized.com/

Tweako
Image: No
http://www.tweako.com/submit

The Web Blend
Image: No
http://thewebblend.com/submit

Web Design Updates
Image: Yes
http://www.pvmgarage.com/wdu/submit

ZaBox
Image: Yes
http://zabox.net/submit

Summary

So, there you have it. Believe it or not, every single time I write a tutorial on MadTuts.com I submit the link to all these sites (except the ones that pay). It is pain staking, and annoying at times.

But they definitely increase your traffic, and they do get your design work noticed.

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19 Responses to “100+ Places To Promote For Free”

Shaun 27. Feb, 2010 at 1:22 pm #

This is an incredible list and makes it a lot easier for others to have direct access to it. Thanks for taking the time to gather these links and share them with everyone else!
Craig 27. Feb, 2010 at 1:25 pm #

and thank you for taking the time to leave feedback Shaun =) it is appreciated
Theraisa K 27. Feb, 2010 at 8:50 pm #

Wow, thanks! I will definitely be checking out and hopefully put some of these to good use
Craig 27. Feb, 2010 at 9:50 pm #

Thanks for the reply Theraisa, I appreciate the feedback- I’m glad this post was of some use to you
skyje 01. Mar, 2010 at 1:27 am #

awesome list and it is really benefit every designer
FAQPAL 01. Mar, 2010 at 3:24 pm #

Thanks for compiling and sharing, definitely a good list for the community.

Nice to see you included FAQPAL.
Max Stanworth 03. Mar, 2010 at 8:49 pm #

Thanks for featuring Design Shards
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FAQPAL 30. Mar, 2010 at 12:04 am #

Excellent list, thanks for including FAQPAL.
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