BrandMyStyle

Usually it’s very hard and expensive to promote your fresh website, especially when it’s your first one.I’m going to share with you a  few tricks on how yo make your website known out there and get traffic for free and with no dirty tricks.The best way to get traffic is to create resources that others can use and associate with your website, for example you know how to make a set of brushes for Photoshop, you want to share that set with others and if your brushes a good people will come back for more and will share it with others and write about it.

There are many websites out there that will feature your site or resources for free and some will get you a lot of users, you just need to know where to submit.

Here’s a list of websites you must visit and use :

BrushesDownload.com

You can submit your brushes, icons, tutorials and many other great things here, it’s 100% FREE and will get you a lot of users up to 3000 a month.

You don’t need to sign up in order to submit.

Deviantart.com

You can submit all kind of files to deviantart for free, if you have an account there and submit on a regular basis you can get up to 1000 users a month (when you start from scratch).

You need to sign up and create your account to submit files.

ResourceHive.com

Resource Hive is a gallery where you can submit resources for free will be featured on the front page.

You don’t need an account for this one either.

PsdBox.com

You can contact the author and ask him to write about your files.

No account needed.

Adobe.com

Adobe Exchange is a massive gallery where you can submit all kind of files , from Flash to Dreamweaver and Flex.It brings in 4000+ hits with ease however it takes a long time to get listed (from 10 days to 6 months !)

You must sign up.

TweetMyDesign.com

Got a Twitter account ? cool, submit your link to them and they will tweet it for you, this will get you traffic and followers on your Twitter account.

No need to sign up.

PhotoshopFiles.com

If you have brushes, patterns, templates, styles or anything created with Photoshop this is the place to submit it to, it can bring you anything from 100 to 5000 visits a month.

You need an account.

Designeta.com

Fresh online, this gallery will feature your website or your resources for free, all you need to do is submit them.

Don’t need to sign up.

Of course there are more ways to promote your website for free like social bookmarking sites, but if you submit files to these websites on a regular basis you will get your site going very easily.