Digg is a place where people discover and share content from anywhere on the web.

By doing so, Digg helps to get the best stuff. There are no editors in Digg but people collectively determine the value of the content.

So how does Digg work?

Content of all kinds – news, video, images, audio – is submitted.  Other people view the content and Digg the best from it.

So if a particular submission gets lot of Diggs, then it is promoted to the front pages for many visitors to see. But wait, it does not end there because along with sharing and discovery, a conversation may begin around the content. So this makes Digg very interesting and unique.

1.    Digg helps to grow your business by getting good traffic to your site. For this take some of your own content and add it to the Digg directory. Digg gets spidered by the search engines very quickly, and your article will get featured in the top of the search engine.  It starts driving good traffic to your site.

2.    Do research and create content that is popular among the Digg community. Study and find out what makes a particular content more popular.  Follow those concepts in creating your own content. This helps other Digg members to promote your content.

3.    Vote, comment and get used to the Digg environment. Learn how to interact with the community.

4.    Regularly examine the front page of Digg so you know what kinds of stories are becoming popular and apply what you learn to your site or blog.

5.    Make as many friends as possible. Keep a look out for Diggers who dominate the front page, make friends with them and digg their stories. Once you start digging, the powerful diggers notice, and they may add to their friend's list. Over a period of time you would have built your own powerful profile.

6.    You can also set up a reciprocal Digg exchange where you can send a private message saying that you have dugg their story and asking them to digg yours.

7.    Using Digg to grow your business does take lot of time but it is worth it because in the long run it can take your business to unimaginable heights. So have patience and continue to do the work of digging.

8.    You Tube and Digg can be combined to increase your business. After you make a video of your business for the YouTube community, you can Digg the same as a business owner. Write a catchy comment about your business video. This will help you to get more diggs as more people will look at your YouTube video through Digg.com

9.    You can also send your friends, whether diggers or non-diggers on the stories you dig and your stories, thereby promoting your business link.

10.    Be an active participant of Digg by sharing your opinion by writing comments on stories, images and videos along with digging and burying comments by other users.

So, there you have it. The top 10 ways to use Digg to grow your business.