Press release get it picked up by thousand of media sites and generate thousands of back links find out press release sin your market and basically swipe their press releases that are getting picked up.John Reese's twitter tip
Get your story in the front page of digg he received 200,000 visitors from digg.
Don't try and game digg to get your article listed examine the history of digg read all the previous posts that got a lot of votes and follow that logic with your article.
John Reese's twitter tip Get a ton of friends in social media analyze those people that have a lot friends in face book and basically copy how they got all their friends.