1.I've been on the Front page several times in all different catagories and the best one for producing huge amounts of traffic is the "WTF" Bizarre section. You can get around 70,000 visits in one day from this section. 2. You also need to Know what people like. From my experience the best thing is a cool video a awesome picture or even a cool news story. 3.You must Pay attention to grammar. 4.The first thing people see is the headline so make a cool headline to go with a awesome picture and sit back and relax. 5.Once you achieve the front page several sites will pick up your article and link back to you gaining more traffic by the hour. You can expect to get around 3-5k just from sites linking back to you. One more food for thought if you get on the front page you can expect to earn around $25-$40 a day in ad revenues,Heck who knows maybe higher then that!
The bottom line is not all story do well on those sites. I tried reddit like two times. The first time I received like 13 visitors and they spent less than one minute. The second time I received no visitor.
Ofc not. People are looking for new, interesting things to see. My record was to grab like 4k uniques in a day from reddit, using a Top 10 funniest ...
Its really hit or miss and a lot goes into it. But I got lucky today and posted a story at Noonish, got about 700 uniques so far today. (opposed to 50 uniques daily for the last month)