If you are looking for a huge traffic spike for your website here is a suggestion, I found this accidentally when a buddy and I were posting articles for a dating website we ran. Your results may vary.

Digg.com, if you are not familiar with it is a social bookmarking site where users “Digg” their favorite articles for others to read, the more people who “Digg” it the higher it goes in the list. Pretty simple concept.

For this to be most effective you should have some sort of Digg.com widget / plugin on your article so users can “Digg” it while reading it. People on Digg seem to love lists, actually most readers love some kind of list and they seem to generate a lot of comments since they are usually someones opinion, and people love to voice their own opinions to agree or disagree.

If you want to get the most out of your list, try posting a controversial list, sex related lists seem to do very well, these seem to get the most response. The subject of the list we posted that got the most play was: ” Top 10 Orgasmic Position for Women “. This generated such a buzz that we got 36,000 visitors to our site in about 18 hours and produced a steady flow of traffic for well over 6 months. If I remember correctly we had about 2000+ Diggs and we had the #1 ranking on the home page for a good part of the day. Over the next couple months we had 2 more posts that hit #1 on the front page and had lots of traffic coming to the site. For over a year we were making over $100/month from Google Ads from those 3 posts.

Digg.com has an Upcoming section of the site and many user watch this to see what’s new and hot. So if you have friends that have Digg accounts its good to let them know you posted something so they can Digg it also to help get it to the top of the upcoming list as quickly as possible.

As a warning though when posting sexual related articles you do need to be a bit careful, after our third trip to the top of the list someone must have not like the articles because our website was banned from having further postings on Digg.