You might be looking at the title of this post scratching your head so read on and I will explain what I am talking about.

Getting dugg by many can be great thing for the fact that it brings traffic to your site and helps to get new readers as well as visitors who might have never known about your site. Exposure right? Exactly! Now the amount of Diggs an article can receive vary and can range from a few to literally thousands. If you have been dugg thousands of times and received an influx of traffic, then you know what I am talking about.

lets see how getting Dugg too much could hurt your site short term. Lets say you are on a shared plan with your hosting company with limits and restrictions of a given amount of bandwidth and a given amount of disk space. While you may think that just because you have plenty of bandwidth that your site can handle a lot of readers, you will also find that most hosting providers also put a limitation on the amount of system resources you use in a short period of time.

So what if you had an article that was Dugg several hundred times in a short period and made it to the top of Digg? This would bring in literally thousands of visitors to your site in just a small period of time which would slow down this shared server drastically ending up in either the suspension of your account or your host pulling your landing page offline with no where for the diggers to go. Now what?

Then end result would be getting buried on Digg and lead to you either being forced to upgrade your plan or to get a dedicated server which means moving all your content again and changing your DNS settings. All because you got Dugg too much.

So is getting Dugg good? Of course it is! Is making the front page of Digg good on a shared server? The answer is no. It will get you buried faster than you can blink in the hosting world!