Good article.
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Digg users do not click ads.[1] Webmasters should stop trying to game the system to get the traffic. The increased traffic will use up your bandwidth and will risk slowing down or crashing your server.[2] In the short run, getting on the front page is more likely to cost you money than make you money if you are depending on ads for your revenue.
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[1]This is so true. A buddy of mine got over 30,000 visitors in a 24hr period. His adsense revenue for that period was $1.75. My site for the same period only saw 27 visitors and I made a little over $3.00. Almost double for a fraction of the traffic.
[2]Again, true. This didn't use up all his bandwidth, but the hosting company suspended his site for 24.27% CPU usage. (He is on shared hosting which allows a maximum of 1% usage)
If you are on shared hosting, check the TOS closely for server load specs if you plan to have an option to Digg articles.