It’s getting tougher to get on Digg’s homepage and many Digg optimizer complaint and accuse Digg to manually edit the homepage. Luckily many international clones with good traffic are out there and are ready for your story. Over the weekend I ran a small test with one of my sites and ended up with a story on the homepage of some Digg clone (Alexa 10k range). I did not monetize the traffic, but the amount of clicks was pretty good:
(It’s the spike at the end and not the one in the middle of the page. The spike in the middle happened Nov. 2006, which was a result of some major TV/Internet/print coverage. )