After you have finished making a tutorial, made sure it’s original, interesting and worth massive exposure, all you need to do is to submit to the major tutorials databases and enjoy massive traffic.

Don’t forget that in order to be accepted in most databases, you need:

1. To host the images / illustrations on your own server, or on the same server the tutorial is posted on (such as DeviantArt). Hosting images elsewhere or on free servers will result in declining your tutorial.
2. You have to provide a thumbnail of your tutorial (small preview) 40*40, 45*45 or 50*50 dimensions, depending on the website you are submitting it to.
3. The tutorial should be ground breaking. If they already have something similar in their database - you will be declined.

So, getting started. Where to submit?

• good-tutorials.com - PR7 - will send you massive traffic, though it’s very hard to be accepted. This is the only database site who demands a preview image .jpg format (optimized, below 5k).
• tutorialized.com - PR7 - will also generate massive traffic for your site, though visitors will see tutorialized’s frame above your site (on which they will be able to rate your tutorials).
• pixel2life.com - PR6 - large database of tutorials of all kind, the only website who will notify you by email regarding every tutorial you submit weather it was accepted or not, and provide a reason, if declined.
• pslover.com - PR6 - one of my top 25 traffic generators, though the only inconvinience is that the thumbnail has to be 45*45.
• tutorial-index.com - PR4 - not much traffic will be generated in total, but easy listing.
• tutorials-db.com - PR 0 - another newly born database, no much traffic but easy listing as well.
• pixelgroovy.com - PR 4 - despite the average traffic generated, I like this database, it’s cosy and not hard to get though.
• tutorialvault.net - PR 5 - the traffic they will send you is small though you easily get a backlink on a PR5 website.
• tutorialkit.com - PR 6 - Very had to be accepted, only exclusve tutorials will be listed, however, don’t be sad if your tutorial was not appreciated by tutorialkit’s editors, the traffic they deliver is measly (a few clicks a day).
• tutorialmix.com - PR 0 - Easy and fast listing, though as a rather new database they will not be very benificial for your overall site’s ranking nor traffic.
• capitaltutorials.com - PR 5 - Not the kind of traffic you will feel in your stats, but I’d recommend to submit anyway, this site’s pages are very well indexed in Google.
• xtreme-pixel.com - PR 5 - Again, this site maybe will not send you too many visitors, but PR5 free backlink worth it.
• tutorials-expert.com - PR 0 - excellent database that provides a fast submission, not a lot of traffic, though the site is getting gradually promoted.
• tutorial-search.com - PR 0 - comprehensive database with easy listing that will deliver avarage-size traffic to your website.
  

That’s about it I think. You can also try listing your website in rnel.net and photoshopdepot.com .

Even though some websites, as I said, generate small traffic and little exposure, if you take the time to submit all your tutorials to each of them, alltogether you will gather a good amount of daily visits and a successful submission to all of them (means if they all have accepted your tutorials) can guarantee you a steady traffic of a few thousands of unique visitors daily. Good luck!

While some people spend money like crazy of buying tons of links on high PageRank websites, others work their way slowly by swapping links, promoting their websites in forums and submitting to free directories.

Those who pay for a PR link normally only do so to increase and help their own ranking in Google, rather than generating actual traffic. Eventually, developing a higher Page Rank will help their site to appear at better positions in Google and Other Search Engines, and drive more potential visitors from SE. But, it will happen only AFTER their own PR will grow.

It’s important to remember that one link on PR7 will not improve your ranking dramatically, you need hundreds, if not thousands of back links to pull your own rank higher, and the question is, will you be able to afford it? Assuming that an average price for a PR6 link would be no less than 5$, and for PR7 no less than 15$ (by the way, good luck finding one for that price! :D), and, as we already said, you need about one thousands of them… It comes to a lot of money, ain’t it? Multiply 15$ by 1k and you will realize that there is nothing wrong with PR3!

Personally, I never hunted the PR, not saying that I’d not want to see my main site - LoreleiWeb.com becoming PR8 one day, but I’d never pay for a link on a particular PR, unless it will guarantee me real traffic. Your best bet would be, if your are ready to invest in adverting, to find a site that has both high PR, massive traffic (above 3k daily) and is related to your website’s theme. In this case, you don’t pay only for improving your ranking, but also pulling visitors. It worked for me, and I hope will work for you.