Digg works in a very simple way, you submit your story linked to the source of the story which could be your blog or any other web and send a shout of your story to your friends in the digg community, if your friends like the story they digg the story and every dugg received by the story increases its value in the digg community. If in a limited time your story receives more then 150 dugg’s your story becomes popular and if digg staff think its a good story they make it popular and bring it to the front page. Now this is where the fun starts.

Within minutes your story source which could be your website starts receiving more then +50000 unique visitors your traffic grows at a very rapid speed, apart from digg your story’s URL get picked up by many other web sites which you have never heard of and it adds more traffic to your blog / site. But the bad part is this all is temporary, for 1-2 week your receive traffic which steadily declines and goes down and down and eventually your traffic returns to normal.

Although you cant keep this a regular routine its not possible for every story you submit to reach the top pages of digg but some do and you can enjoy on that so the real question is how to get your story on the main page of the digg?

How to get the story on the Main Page of Digg ?

1. Unique story submitted at the right time
   The story your publish should be interesting, it should be weired and unique and suspicious, it should be confusing and raise the curiosity of the users. You can submit Videos / Images / Stories but they must follow the guideline above. If you are publishing a breaking news, like Microsoft Bid on Yahoo it should be the first submission before every body else around the world. I.e. you should publish it when Steve is thinking about the bid and you release the news on digg.
2. Title of the Story
   Yes title plays the key role, if you title your story as “Microsoft is going to bid on Yahoo” its not that exciting rather if you say “Yahoo is being acquired by Microsoft” then you have just raised attention and majority of dugg you get is due to the title.
3. Description of the Story
   After title you have to add description now don’t explain everything and just be brief and suspicious and add curiosity to the description of the story.
4. A Friend in need is a friend in deed at Digg
   You need friends at Digg, yes many friends, approximately about 1200 friends or more for your stories to reach the main page. The more the friends who dugg your story the more your chances of getting to the top. So get more friends you have to spend time on digg, connect with people who share stories and add them as friends. Its a bit long list work but its a good investment of time.
5. Seeding the Shots
   Now your story is published so now your market it after submission you reach the page of the story there you will see a link called “Shout” use that link and shot to your friends with sentences like ” please dugg and share your stories with me any time” such sentences clearly reflect tit for tat i.e. if they dugg your story your would dugg there stories, ps, majority of friends you have on dugg don’t know your they only remember you from your picture / avatar on digg or your user name rest they don’t care who you are and where you are from so keep your avatar unique and keep dugging your friends stories.

Social Networking Addons for Firefox
1- Facebook Extension for Firefox.
First Comes “Facebook” with an average of above 150 million user subscription, facebook has made its self the no1 social networking website. So the “Facebook toolbar for Firefox” is an essential.

Once installed the Facebook Toolbar brings your facebook life to your browser every time you open up the browser you are logged into facebook, you can search facebook, get notified of the pokes, friends requests and messages you receive. A pop-up will notify when friends update there status, write a note or interact with you on facebook. You can also open your friends sidebar, sort them and keep in touch with them. Apart from that if you run groups or a network on facebook you can share content directly from your browser what else do you need.

An essential facebook extension to keep in touch.

Facebook Toolbar Download , Addons Page

2- Twitter – TwitBin
Are you addicted to twitter just like me ? well if yes then you can add more to twitter, you can answer the question “What are you doing ?” right from your browser, simple download and install TwitBin Send and receive messages to all your fellow twitterholics, right from your firefox browser. While you browse you keep your Twitter alive.

TwitBin Download, Addons Page

3- Social Network Content Sharing – Shareaholic
Share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser.

Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, magnolia, mixx, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr and twitter. You also have the option to e-mail the web page directly to a friend.

Shareaholic Downalod, Addons Page

3- YouTube & Video Sharing Website Add On
Video Download Add on, this add on adds the capability to download any video you see in the web. Download the Add on and then once installed, just right click any video and download. With this ad On you can download videos from YouTube, Metcafe, MSN Soapbox, Yahoo Video and many more.

Video Download Add One, Download, Addons Page

4- Get an Internet Explorer Inside Firefox.
This is the essential for web designers, web developers who have to spend hours after hours fixing the cross browser issues. IE Tab ads a tab and Opens any webpage as IE inside Firefox. The interesting part is it creates its own session and maintains its own history. So far i am not sure which version of IE it opens but my rough guess is IE6.0.

Addons Page