Posting news stories on the popular social bookmarking service Digg can help draw attention to them. After submitting your recommended stories, you can use these instructions to track the voting and comments on them by other Digg users.

First, wait a few minutes after submitting a link you want to track, so that Digg’s system can update. Then click the “My Profile” link at the top of the page and scroll down to the “Submitted” link on the page which appears. It may be necessary to scroll right to find this link, which is under the “Stats” heading. Click it and a list of all the stories you have submitted will be displayed.

Find the article you desire to track (you might have to use the search feature if you have submitted a lot of stories). You will see the number of “diggs” it has received, the category, and how long ago it was submitted, along with an option to “undigg” the link. For more information, click on its title.

This will link to a page which shows comments by other Digg users, as well as a list of users who “dugg” your article or posted its link on their blogs. To more conveniently track important stories, add this page to your browser’s favorites list, temporarily save it as a desktop icon, or keep it as a minimized window and refresh it periodically. It will be visible regardless of whether or not you are logged into your Digg account.

You can also mark the page as a “favorite” on Digg, using one of the icons below the article description. This will make the link to this page show up near the top of your profile, under the “Favorites” heading, making it easy to quickly track its popularity upon logging in. Keep in mind that your favorite web site selections are visible to other users.

Digg also has a feature which sends a message to your email account if one of your stories shows up in the “Popular” section.  This is activated by default upon signing up for Digg; it can be turned on or off under “Email Settings.” However, stories seldom appear in the “Popular” section with fewer than two-hundred “diggs”, so this is not an adequate way to track most submissions.

The above-mentioned tips and directions should be helpful to more easily and conveniently track the voting or comments on your news stories submitted at Digg.com.