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Digg has an immense amount of traffic and getting landed on the front page will send a tsunami of new readers to your blog or website, but getting onto the front page is incredibly difficult. Getting onto the front page of a smaller, more appropriate niche portal, by contrast, is much easier, quicker, and ultimately you get a better return on your time/traffic ratio in the short run. I have yet to determine the long run implications, although I am fairly certain that my high placement on DZone’s front page is what resulted in my 10+ Firefox Extensions for Developers and Bloggers article being picked up by Lifehacker. Here are 7 reasons why niche sites like DZone and DotNetKicks give you a better return on your time spent promoting/traffic ratio than Digg: