Digg pages rank pretty OK in Google. I got very roughly 10k hits for a site from the Digg effect, then 1.5k over the next 2 years from people who randomly found the Digg post and clicked through.
Biggest effect of all was that many blogs found my site through Digg, then linked back to it, leading to an improved ranking that brought 31k hits from Google (over 2 years).
Still all of this is peanuts and didn't amount to anything, time spent on that site was mostly good as a learning experience. It brought in less than $500 in revenue (total) over the years, despite being in a very lucrative niche (domain names) and being on Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us main pages.
Currently the site is broken and I am not maintaining it anymore, but it was a list of domain names that are expiring soon. It didn't make much revenue because right after a hit of popularity my affiliate partner cancelled their affiliate program for registering expiring domain names, and I could never find another one and could only slap AdSense there.
Biggest effect of all was that many blogs found my site through Digg, then linked back to it, leading to an improved ranking that brought 31k hits from Google (over 2 years).
Still all of this is peanuts and didn't amount to anything, time spent on that site was mostly good as a learning experience. It brought in less than $500 in revenue (total) over the years, despite being in a very lucrative niche (domain names) and being on Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us main pages.
Currently the site is broken and I am not maintaining it anymore, but it was a list of domain names that are expiring soon. It didn't make much revenue because right after a hit of popularity my affiliate partner cancelled their affiliate program for registering expiring domain names, and I could never find another one and could only slap AdSense there.