Dominate Digg in 2010 with these 7 must have tools.

• We use Digg a lot for social media promotion and it's always been a tough nut to crack. We have spent a lot of time building up our profile but we need help to take it to the next power user level. Can you recommend some tools to help us better monitor and manage our Digg activity in 2010?

Your company is smart to make Digg a major part of their social media promotional strategy. Digg is consistently in the top 100 sites for worldwide Alexa traffic rankings, and in the top 50 for the U.S. In February 2010 it was ranked the #9 most popular Web 2.0 site based on inbound links, Google Page Rank, Alexa rank and U.S. traffic data.

It's clear that Digg is popular but, as you've indicated, it takes some special tools and planning to use it to its best effect. To that end, here are our top seven Digg tool recommendations to best help you take your submission campaigns in 2010 to the next level:

• 1. Social Blade: Social Blade provides Digg users with front page submission analytics, a list of top Digg users and a social community forum. Using its detailed analysis, graphs and statistics will help you understand what is putting content on the front page of Digg so you can emulate that success. With a look at Social Blade's data you can tell how many average Diggs it took a story to become popular and shoot for a similar total on your own submissions.
  
  
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