For those that aren’t familiar with Digg.com, wake up!

I have been using Digg off and on for the past 4-6 months as a way to drive traffic to my sites and forums. Let me share a quick note and say that Digg is for tech related news, so if your forum is about flowers this may not be for you. Also, due to the huge size and traffic of Digg, you need to be quick on your feet if you plan on releasing important news on the site as others may be listing the same news you plan to list. Keeping all of that in mind, I urge you to use Digg as a resource of traffic. If your forum niche is somewhat tech related, then you may find that by posting some related news at Digg, that your site receives a few hundred or even a few thousand extra visitors for a few days.

I have heard the arguement that Digg visitors are worthless or not sticky, but I have found the opposte to be true. I had one of my sites that received XX,XXX traffic from a Digg post and I made an additional $200-$300 through my contextual ads on that site over a period of 2-3 days. I recently heard from another forum admin that his Digg traffic brought him over $50 in extra income furing the first 24 hours. If 1,000 Digg users vists your site and only 5 stick, was it worth it?

by Rex Bowden @ CruiseLineFans.com