Archive for December, 2009

50+ Top Design Blogs Highest Ranked Posts in 2009

31-12-2009 Brian 19 Comments

Yahoo has a nice little Site Explorer search that allows you to request a specific website URL that displays results of the highest ranked articles/pages on a specific website.

Based on my Twitter list “Top Design Blogs,” I searched each of the blogs in this list in Yahoo’s Site Explorer and compiled a Highest Rank List of 2009 below.
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Best of TDC 2009: Month by Month Highlights and Future Goals

29-12-2009 Brian 8 Comments

2009 has been a great year for The Design Cubicle. In the past 12 months TDC has close to 2 million amazing visitors and approximately 5,000 comments on 151 articles (an average of 33 comments per article with a rate of 3 articles a week)—ranging from freelancing tips, logo and web design articles, typography insights and great giveaways—and 11,000 subscribers via RSS and email.
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Websites That Will Increase your Design Blogs Traffic Substantially

27-12-2009 Brian 25 Comments

As the old saying goes, “If you build it they will come”, but a majority of the time ‘they’ (your website visitors) need to know you ‘built it’ (your design blog and its articles).

Since starting The Design Cubicle, I have submitted many of my quality blog posts to various websites that accept community submissions. In the past year, approximately 900,000 visitors have come via referring sites (statistics provided by Google Analytics on 12/16/09).

While there are hundreds or more websites around the web that allow you to submit, below are the ones that have produced high traffic and successful exposure for my articles and blog in the past year.
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Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #29

26-12-2009 Brian 3 Comments

Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week – because having resources and staying up-to-date is important in growth and development.
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