I'm just starting to submit stories from my blog to Digg, hoping against hope that they'll get some Digg love and drive some traffic back here. So far, no luck. The only Digg love my blog entries get is from me - and ONLY me. But I noticed a nice side effect - articles submitted to Digg almost instantly appear in Google's search results. Nice! Sure, the link goes to Digg, but from there, potential users can get here. It's a good trade-off.

This is great for new sites and non-established sites that either don't get crawled by Google at all or not often enough. Another nice thing with having your content on Digg is that since they have a really high page rank, your content will probably pop up higher in search results than if it was from your site. One of my articles appears on the first page for the main keyword!

I installed the AddThis button on every article on Wopular, and find that it doesn't drive much traffic back. It gets used, on average, four times a day. Yeah, pretty pathetic. I felt like I wasted my time installing it. But another nice side effect from this is that I find it very useful for submitting my blog entries to Digg. All I have to do is click on the AddThis button, click on Digg, login, and voila, I'm there.

So install AddThis buttons on your site and Digg away for higher placements on Google. Now, I'm not telling you to spam Digg. You can't anyway because they have spam controls. Only Digg stories that you think people would find value in. As with everything, don't abuse it.

One more thing. I lied. It's not instantaneous, but within an hour or so.