How to know when your site (or any site) has been dugg on Digg
One of the scenarios which will face a blogger eventually is getting dugg on Digg. This can either be a blessing or a curse, depending on how you look at it. It’s a blessing in that the number of site visitors will probably hit the roof and with a bit of luck, your RSS subscriber count will also go up. It’s also a curse because your site will most probably collapse due to the overwhelming surge in visitors. The classic catch-22.
But for a lot of dugg stories, it can take quite a while for the “Digg Effect” to kick in. In fact a lot of stories don’t get anymore than 10 diggs before fading into obscurity. So it’s quite often the case that you don’t realise you’re being dugg unless someone points it out to you.
So I have started to monitor certain domains on Digg using my RSS reader. Anytime a page on these domains get dugg, the page in question pops up in my Google Reader along with the link to Digg. This is good also for monitoring any comments that Diggers make.
For those of you who don’t know how to do this, just search for the domain in the Digg search box. You don’t need the “http://” part but you do need the rest. So for this domain, I would put betterthantherapy.net in the search box. Then filter it down to “URL only”. Once you’ve done that, click on the small orange RSS logo to the right of the page.
Congratulations, you’ve just subscribed to the feed. Now whenever a page on that domain gets dugg, you’ll find out immediately. This is also good if you are part of any informal Digg or Stumbleupon networks where you digg or stumble web content sent to you by friends. Just put the domains they mostly digg or stumble into your RSS reader and when they send you the link themselves, you can say to them “hah! too slow!” 
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