ARE  YOU USING DIGG AND STUMBLE UPON?

Both can be useful tools for promoting articles of particular interest and possibly help in generating some new traffic to your site.

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by its users. Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by their community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of Digg  visitors to see.

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 4,120,578 other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like () automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

At both sites, you can Digg one of your stories and Stumble one of your stories, to get it started. If it's interesting enough to enough people, it could grow from there or fizzle, you never know. On one new blog we are working with, they were getting  about 10-20 hits a day. We stumbled a post, people loved it, and their traffic shot up to about 300-500  a  day  for  3  weeks! So it brought a lot of new eyes to the site and hopefully they liked what they read and wil return again!