(Other) Places to Submit Your Website

You’ve finally finished your latest website and you now want to expose it to the world so that people will fall in love with it just like you have.

There is no denying the value of a front-page digg, reddit or del.icio.us story about your website. Your site will see thousands of new visitors and get an instant bump in the search engines.

But this of course is very difficult to accomplish. Not saying it can’t happen, but instead of lamenting over the awful odds and hard work involved, remember that there are other fine places out there that will help expose your website:

For Blogs (or similar content-related sites)

• Technorati.com
  If you don’t have an account at Technorati, sign up for an account and then claim your new blog. You’ll have to upload a snippet of code to prove that the site is yours. Technorati will automatically update your site’s listing with the latest RSS feed items that your site provides. Although Technorati is known as a blog aggregator, you can really use it for exposing any similar kind of site. You don’t have to consider your site a “blog” for it to qualify.
• MyBlogLog.com
  Again, don’t let the”blog” part throw you. If you’re website is a blog, great, if not, you can still use this service. MyBlogLog is kind of like a social network distributed across various websites. If you are logged into your account and visit a website that has MyBlogLog enabled, the avatar that you setup in your MyBlogLog account will be displayed (usually) in the sidebar of that site. Other visitors to that site will be able to click on your avatar and then visit the sites that you have added to your MyBlogLog account. By simply surfing the web you are able to gain exposure to your own websites. Here you’ll also need to validate that you are the the site owner by uploading a simple snippet of code. And you’ll have to do the same in order to add the MyBlogLog section to your site’s sidebar. You’ll be able to customize how it’s displayed so that it can work with your site’s theme and layout. You don’t have to add a MyBlogLog section to your own website in order to use the system, but I think that people might appreciate knowing that there are other visitors going to your website. It might validate the value of the site for them. One word of advice though: don’t use your site name or avatar to directory advertise your website (i.e. use a banner ad for your avatar). MyBlogLog users do not like this and in turn you may receive some negative reactions to your website.
• BlogFlux.com
  BlogFlux is another blog directory similar to Technorati. I don’t think it’s as popular as Technorati but having added one of my sites to it I have seen some visitors trickle in from there (BlogFlux also has a section just for web hosting, if your working on your own web hosting site).

For Web Apps or Services

These sites are sometimes more difficult to expose to the wider web because they don’t necessarily produce fresh public content to act as link weight.

• KillerStartups.com
  With around 1500 RSS readers, KillerStartups is fast becoming a popular destination for people interested in up-and-coming web apps and services. They allow you to submit your own through their website.
  
• AppsMania.com
  AppsMania, created by the fine people from CSSMania, is a showcase for new web apps that you can also submit your site to.
• simplespark.com
  And yet another catalog of websites that you can submit to.

Design-based Recognition

Are you proud of the design of your new website? Then submit it to these design showcase websites:

• CSSMania
  Mentioned above, CSSMania is a popular showcase of websites with fresh and attractive CSS-based website designs
• CSSBeauty
  This website contains a catalog along the same lines as CSSMania. CSSBeauty also takes new site submissions. CSSBeauty also offers an active forum as well as resources for helping flesh out any CSS issues you may have during development of your website.
• DesignSnack.com
  DesignSnack is another design showcase that involves a community that can vote up or down a particular design. If others like the design of your website, then visitors to your website could really increase as the design would spread among the community.

Do you know of other good places that you can submit a website to? Please let us know in the comments below.