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digg.com is a global top 100 site and it’s all about sharing links, so you can expect a lot of traffic once you get on the front page. Here is some advice on what you should do to make this happen, how to prepare and what to expect. Among other tips, learn how to get notified if someone submitted your site to digg.
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I know, it’s a ballsy headline, but I’m tired of hearing all of the script kiddies on Digg scoff at Wordpress, blaming it for sites crashing from the “Digg Effect.” Drupal, Movable Type and others all have similar problems, but there’s a lot of people saying you should never Digg a Wordpress site because it will always crash. Wordpress needs a little tweaking, but for the most part, it’s the server configuration that is to blame. Maybe the new release of Wordpress will improve on some of the caching issues, but from what I can tell, it mostly improves on aspects of Wordpress that I don’t use anyway (draft saving, image handling, modules, etc.).
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Much has been written about Digg.com and it’s top 100 ranked users. Charges ranging from conspiracy and collusion to corruption have been leveled at this group of elite Digg users, and, from the outside looking in, it’s easy to imagine why. The top 25 members alone account for over 12,000 stories that have been promoted to Digg.com’s front page. Those same 25 users have an average popular ratio of 35% (meaning 35% of the stories they submit make it to the front page). And, since a website typically receives tens of thousands of visitors in a short time from a story that makes it to the front page, these elite Digg users are viewed by many as the gatekeepers to this vast amount of potential web traffic. Add to that the fact that thousands of users submit stories that never even come close to the front page and the contrast becomes even clearer. These top 100 users, known as Digg’s Top 100, have quickly become people of interest.
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Many users, when using Digg, have no idea what they are doing. They try to submit their blog/website/webpage to Digg and expect to get immediate results, maybe they will submit 10-12 articles, get extremely frustrated at not being able to make the main page and quit submitting entirely. This is what most people do and it will cause you to fail every single time, and it isn’t like there are a few people doing this. The vast majority of people that are using Digg are doing exactly this.
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so you wrote a gripping article or made the a out-of-this-world graphic which has been added to a site (or multiple sites) such as digg, slashdot or reddit and now your server is suffering the consequences of that graphic intensive make-over you did on your site last week. you wish they’d stop slamming your server to stop your host bugging you, or, to stop your server from committing suicide.
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Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what’s newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites.

Now, dubious Internet marketers are planting stories, paying people to promote items, and otherwise trying to manipulate rankings on Digg and other so-called social-media sites like Reddit and Delicious to drum up more links to their Web sites and thus more business, experts say.
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At its peak, a front page story on Digg will send dozens of visitors per second to your website. Is it ready for the traffic?

Having a link on the front page of Digg.com presents websites with one of the fastest influxes of traffic possible. Similar waves of traffic might come from Slashdot.org or a national media website like HowardStern.com. (more…)