We did the Imacro Script to Add the Problogger Digg Friends the Easy Way earlier this week.

Now we've done the same thing for the giant 538 Twitter Users That Blog list that he put together.

You still need to install Imacro, but this time to make it easier you only need the FireFox version. You can click on the Imacro icon in our sidebar. Then just run this script. Be sure that you're already logged into Twitter before starting the script.

Thanks to Darren for putting this list together. This script will save you a lot of mouse clicks.

Darren Rowse at Pro-Blogger has collected Hundreds of Bloggers to Interact with on Digg and StumbleUpon. It's in the form of a bunch of links that you can visit and hit "Add Friend". That's a great list because these are all people who will most likely be interested in your message.

I suppose you could spend several hours adding all those friends and develop a good case of carpal tunnel, or you could just use an Imacro Script to Add Those Digg Friends. It will run through that entire list and click the "Add Friend" button for you.

If you don't have Imacro installed, go do that right away. You can click on the Imacro icon in our sidebar. Then just click the link to the script or download it using right click and run it in Imacro. If you don't know about Imacro, you're about to enter into a wider world.

Some people have expressed reservations in the comments over at Problogger that adding a lot of friends at once in Digg or StumbleUpon could get you banned. I'm not sure what they're basing that on, but our experience from dozens of people over several months is that Digg doesn't mind adding lots of friends. We're the ones who invented the Digg Friend Finder and now the PMS Social Suite, so if banning was going to occur we'd have seen it. YMMV.

Participating in voting blocks and gaming the system will get you banned, that's been documented. Adding lots of friends, on the other hand, is what those sites are designed to support.

I should have known this, but Fireboard has an RSS feed. If you had subscribed to the feed in our PMS Social Suite forum, you would have heard about this cool new planned feature.

You would also be able to see new features planned for our next release, which will include items 414, 409, 378, 411, 412, 408, and 358. No ETA, but 90% of this is working on our dev servers. Yes, you'll have to look through the forum to see what those are.

Social Sites like Digg are like being in high school all over again.

You really have to keep that in mind when you're coming up with a strategy of how to promote your content on these networks. If you're just starting out, you're sitting with the geeks in the cafeteria, and the cool people aren't going to pay much attention to you. It will take a long time (at least in internet time) to carefully craft a reputation that will allow you to move in the popular (read that profitable) social circles.

There are lots of reasons to build up your friend networks. The primary one is that having a large network of friends will allow you to communicate to them and rally support for your submissions. You can put out the best content in the world, but if you're depending upon people to spot it as it scrolls off the upcoming page at 5 positions per second you're not going to get anywhere. Great content is just gas in the tank. You have to support that content with great promotion.

If you don't agree with the above statement, try finding a top digger that doesn't have a large netork of friends. Being at the top of a social network will bring you friends, but you can't get there without a critical mass of people to support your submissions.

Remember Google's murmurs about an impending slap this Fall for social network submissions that were purely self serving? If you're submitting your own blog to social networks just for the links and not getting much play from the community, you're going to be in trouble. Having a lot of friends is a defensive move against that impending slap -- being popular shows that your content is worthwhile and deserves authority. Again, great content without the votes to back it up won't be worth much.

Finally, even if you're submitting to social networks just for the links, think about the internal structures of these sites. If you've got 500 friends, that's 500 internal links to your profile page. And your profile page points to your articles. Sure, it may not be a lot of juice, but it'sa heck of a lot better than a profile page without any incoming links.

Time to Party

Joining in on the conversation on these sites is like going to a party. The only difference is that anyone with an internet connection can get an invitation to the party. If you're an internet marketer, the purpose of going to the party is to build up worthwhile relationships. It doesn't do you any good to spend time with people that can't or won't do anything for you. If you're just at the party to have fun and drink a few beers then you can just wander around aimlessly. But if you're attending the party to further your business, you need to have a strategy.

As you walk into the room, you'll see lots of different groups of people interacting. Let's take a look at some of those groups and how you might try to fit in.

The Kings and Queens Holding Court

Some groups consist of an individual surrounded by a lot of people listening to what they have to say. The communication is completely uni-directional. The King/Queen is doing all of the talking, and there is a large group of people listening to every word.

As Mel Brooks said, "It's good to be the King." And while the temptation to friend MrBabyMan and become one of his 10,111 fans (as of the minute that I'm writing this) can be quite strong, the fact is that he's only got 328 friends and you therefore have roughly a 3.2% chance of becoming a friend. Less than that because he's already got enough friends, and they're mostly other top diggers.

If you've come to the party to build up worthwhile relationships, there's not much the Kings and Queens are going to do for you. Perhaps someday when you've become royalty they'll deign to be your friend, but until then it's not a good use of your time.

The Wall Flowers

These are the people that are just hanging around and watching. They're not participating in any conversations -- their comment count is pretty close to zero. They may vote on things, but they don't have much of a friend network. They aren't very active either. Take a look at the date of their last submissions -- it's usually months ago. Spending your time approaching them is another waste.

Loudmouth Cheaters

These are people that have lots of friends and lots of fans. Check their profile and they've most likely added a bunch of friends lately. Their strategy is to churn and dump. They friend a lot of people, and when they get a mutual friendship back they vote for their friends submissions for a few weeks, then they drop the friend and turn them into a fan. Digg is especially bad about this because there's no notification that someone has dropped you. BTW, these people are often the ones sending 30 shouts every day, sometimes several duplicates at a time.

Avoid getting stuck in these groups by using a few guidelines. Don't friend someone back with a high number of both friends and fans with a recent history of adding a lot of friends. And never, ever friend someone back that has shouts turned off. There's nothing worse than the loudmouth that sends you 20 shouts a day and has the audacity to refuse to listen to shouts from their friends.

The Torch and Pitchfork Crowd

Most social networks have a few groups that have appointed themselves the network police. They ruthlessly seek out content that goes against their idea of what is good for the network and attack it. On Digg it's the Digg Mafia or Bury Brigade. Needless to say, there's nothing to be gained in getting involved with people like that. They aren't there for a mutual relationship, they're desparately trying to prop up their low self image.

You can spot these types of people from their comments. Try a site search in google for the name of the person and the word "spam." If they throw that term around a lot then they're probably a self appointed netcop and you'll want to avoid them.

Lively Small Groups

You can usually find a few small groups of people having lively discussions. They're active on the site, making lots of submissions and voting for each other's posts. They tend to have fairly large mutual friend counts. There's an implicit understanding that they'll vote for your submissions if you vote for theirs.

These can be great groups to find, but you have to be careful that you don't get dragged into a voting block. Social networks are on the lookout for this -- Digg discounts votes from people that vote as a block. So don't ever vote 100% for someone, and don't vote up questionable content. There's nothing easier for an admin to spot than a spam article with 20 votes. And when those same 20 people have all voted on several questionable submissions it's easy to mark them as a block.

OTOH, even a block can be useful. It's probably easier to get 500 votes from a voting block than 50 completely random votes. And the rumour is that Digg would count those the same. It's better if you don't get dragged into a block, but don't let it keep you up at night.

Secret Friends

These are groups of people that you can't spot other than to look at their voting behavior. They don't friend each other on the network, but they do communicate and vote each other's submissions up. It can be an innocuous as people that automatically vote for the posts of certain personalities on Sphinn, or as nefarious as someone with a huge rolodex of AIM addresses that works their list to drum up votes.

These can be great relationships to enter into, but it takes careful nurturing. You've become more than "network friends" -- you're becoming an actual friend.

Another way to approach these relationships is to tell a network friend "I'm going to drop you as a friend on the social network, but don't worry, I'll keep looking at your submissions while you're doing the same for me." My guess is that the social networks aren't really looking at the friend lists, but rather the voting blocks, so this approach can add a lot of paperwork without much benefit.

Robots

Yes Virginia, there are robots on social networks.

Here's hint for spotting robots: their profile picture is almost always an attractive young woman. Guess what? The actual number of "hot babes" cruising Digg pushing articles about video cards is pretty small.

You can also spot them through their voting patterns. Just find "people" that almost always vote for each others posts. The auto shoutback feature of the PMS Social Suite sort of works like that, except that you can include a lot of variables as to how you're going to operate and you can be picky about which shouts you'll listen to. But there are plenty of robots out there that you can establish a friendship with and reliably get your shouts Dugg if you use them correctly.

Tools for Figuring Out the Party

Spotting these groups at the party can be a pretty daunting task. You really don't have any choice other than to use an automated research tool such as the PMS Social Suite. Paging through the interface of a social network trying to spot these patterns is pretty hit an miss. If you're just a hobbyist, then you've got the time to burn. But if you're purporting to be a social network marketing professional, you need to use some real tools.

We've gotten a lot of feedback from our users about the PMS Social Suite. Some of been enhancements, others have been some pretty hard to find bugs. In the spirit of openness, we're going to publish the list of enhancement requests and outstanding defect reports we currently are tracking in our Bugzilla system.

You don't use Bugzilla? You really should take a look at it. We use Bugzilla internally for just about anything. In addition to being a great (and free) defect management system, we use it for all kinds of project tracking and workflow tasks. It can really improve your productivity.

We've started posting defect reports and enhancement requests in our PMS Social Suite Forum. If you run into a problem, this would be a good place to look for a solution or to report it. Of course, you can always just email us and we'll be glad to help out too.

The Current List

Here's what the current enhancement and defect list looks like:

Id	Type	Title	Description
369	Defect	Imacro V6.0.4.1 Breaks Everything	Version 6.0.4.1 of Imacro was nice enough to break the "Start from firefox javascript" function. We're looking for a workaround, but in the meantime, PMS Social Suite must run with version 6.0.3.4
408	Enhance	User Configurable Saved Queries	Implement a saved query function in Manage Friends, similar to what Bugzilla does. After setting up a filter, the user would click "Save Query" and we'll add a link/button to repeat that query the next time they refresh the screen.
359	Enhance	Unfriend Other's Friends	Enter the name of a Digg user and perform the Unfriend function on every friend that is a friend of that user. Useful if you don't want to have overlap between different accounts or want to make sure you don't get stuck in a voting block.
355	Enhance	Refresh All Friend Stats for all Users	The ability to click a button and run the Research Friends on all friends of all of your users.
350	Enhance	Add "Digg last X" to Manage Shouts	In addition to the filters, limit the number of shouts to Digg to X. Useful when you want to show some activity, but not spend hours.
409	Enhance	Article Tracking	This will be part of a new tab for "Tracking." You'll be able to specify a set of Digg Urls (your submissions or ones you've entered by hand) and then get statistics such as what friends have dugg these articles. Rank your friends by how well they're doing on digging these articles.
378	Enhance	Shoutback Articles Tracked	Indicate an article you want to shoutback from the tracking screen. When performing shouts, if you digg a friend's shouts that has not dugg this article, send them a shout. You can specify the text of the shout with variable substitution, including URL of an article to randomly pick from the list of tracked and shouted articles.
356	Enhance	Overnight Runs	Add an option on research, digg percents/duggback, and shouts to run at a later time. You can specify several jobs, then later click "overnight processing" and it wil run all of those in sequence.
352	Enhance	Shout Allow/Deny by Digg Category	In addition to the current filters, allow the user to indicate Digg categories in which they will not digg shouts.
407	Defect	HTTPS vs. HTTP post subscription	The subscription process leaves the user in https mode, but the software can only run in http mode.
362	Enhance	Additional Contact Info	When researching a user, check to see if they have email, AIM, Sphinn, etc links on their page and grab them.
358	Enhance	Download to CSV	Add an option to download Manage Friends and Friends tables to CSV
354	Enhance	All Users All Shouts	The ability to click a button and run shouts on of all of your users.
411	Enhance	Watch Articles for Buries	Add the ability (via a GM script) to watch for articles that are being buried to the tracking screen.
412	Enhance	Calculate Friend Submission Digg Percentages	Calculate the % of articles that a user diggs that are their friend's submissions. Also calculate the % of submissions of friends that the user diggs. We're looking for people that digg within their friend network, but also digg outside.

We'd really appreciate your feedback, so if you have opinions on the relative importance of these items or have something else you'd like to see implemented, go ahead and reply in the forum.

Sometimes your Digg friends just don't know when to quit.

We've all seen the person that seems to have just discovered the shout button and sends us 20 spams, er shouts, a day. We've been smart enough to turn off the email notfication for new shouts, but it's still clogging up our shout pages.

We don't want to lose them as a friend, because frankly they send good stuff once in a while and they digg our stuff, but there's just no way in Digg to get them to cut it out. It's either receive every shout or stop being friends.

A Script to Block Those Bothersome Shouts

Now there's a solution. If you haven't already, go install Greasemonkey. Really. Go do it right now. Then install our new Greasemonkey Script to Block Digg Shouts. After you have Greasemonkey installed you just click on the link and the script will install itself. You can make things more efficient by right clicking on the Greasemonkey icon, selecting Manage User Scripts, and then moving the Digg Shout Blocker to the top of the list -- that will make it get executed first. Note that Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension, so you'll have to install Firefox if you haven't already done that.

We have both Freemium (free to registered users) and Premium (paid) versions of our software. You'll need to be at least a registered user of Promote-My-Site to use this tool, because you'll need to set up an account on the PMS Social Suite. The freemium version will do everything you need. You'll want to follow the installation instructions. You don't actually have to install Imacros in order to use the shout block capabilities, but there are so many other features that you're going to want to install it as well. We have to require registration because we need to maintain a database record of who you're trying to ignore.

Once you've registered, go to the tool and click on the Profiles tab. Click the Add button and enter your Digg Username and Password, then click the Add button at the bottom. Now go to the Manage Friends tab. Your Digg Username should be filled in already, so click the Refresh From Digg button. The API calls will run and you'll get your grid populated with your current friends.

Let's say we're getting a lot of unwanted shouts from Oliver Taco. We can enter his name in the Friend Name field then click Query and we'll see this:

Now we just click the Toggle Block button and then Query again and we'll see that OliverTaco now has a status of Yes for Blocked. We've now marked him in our database as someone that we don't want to see their shouts.

How it Works

The Promote My Site server maintains a database of which friends you've decided to block. The Greasemonkey script checks that database each time you view your shout pages in Digg. If it sees someone on the blocked list, it runs a bit of code that mimics pressing the delete button on the shout. Viola, that user can no longer shout to you!

The script runs entirely in your Firefox browser. Other than the fact that you're able to delete shouts fairly quickly, there's no way for the Digg server to tell what you're doing. It does the same thing as if you had kept a spreadsheet of digg friends you want to ignore and delete each shout from them every time you load a shout page. Except it's a lot easier.

Blocking shouts is permanent. When the page loads, the delete code is run and they'll really be gone. But you can always just go back to the PMS Social Suite and toggle the Blocked status of a user back again.

Of course, if you block everybody that's shouting eventualy you'll just get back a blank page from Digg. You can see how many shouts were deleted by looking at the Shouts Received tab on your Digg page. The script adds (n Ignored) in italics right next to it to show you how many were ignored.

BTW, while I used OliverTaco as an example, I wouldn't suggest blocking his shouts. The rumor is that he's pretty good about using the PMS Social Suite and if you send him good stuff and reciprocate, he's very likely to Digg your shouts. So is LtDraper.

Other free Greasemonkey scripts we suggest to enhance your digging experience are Help Digg Your Incoming Shouts and Quickly Delete Your Shouts. They're part of the install process for the PMS Social Suite anway.

Managing Shouts isn't the only thing we've improved in the PMS Social Suite. We've also made a number of enhancements to the manage friends tab. The major features of this release are:

• Calculating Deadwood - what percentage of your submits does a friend Digg, and how much do you Digg them back?
• Welcome Messages - An easy method for the care and feeding of new fans
• Shouting - Send a shout to a group of friends
• Go To Friend Page - more options for which page to visit
• Multi Digg Submits - now you can Digg the submits of a group of friends

BTW, some users have been confused by the fact that the PMS Social Suite shows up in the "Free SEO Tools" section in the left sidebar. It's in the right place, because there is a free version of this product. You can do a number of useful things with it, but if you click on something that's only in the premium version you'll get the message telling you that it's a premium function. You must be a registered user to have access to the "freemium" products.

New Features in Manage Friends

Let's take a look at the new "Manage Friends" tab in the PMS Social Suite:

Welcome to Being My Fan

The first thing you'll notice is the new "Welcomed Status" filter and "Toggle Welcome Msg" button. This was an idea submitted by a user. The concept is that when you get a new fan you'll want to send them a welcome message. The other day I received a very nice welcome from a digg friend:

Thanks for becoming a fan. I figure something about my diggs must have piqued your interest, so please take a look at my favorites and digg them if you like them. The favorites are the first 3 submissions on this page.

That's a nice touch. But it could be a bit tedious to maintain if you're trying to build a very large friend network, so we've added a feature that you can mark your friends as "welcomed". When you get a new fan, you'll want to send them a nice shout and then mark them as welcomed and you won't commit the faux pas of welcoming them twice.

Shouting Efficiently

The next thing you'll notice is the entire section at the bottom of the screen for sending shouts. Just click on a user (or multi-select many users), put some text into the Shout Text field, and specify a minimum and maximum number of seconds to wait between shouts. Click Send shout and an Imacro script will fire that shouts to each of those friends.

Keep in mind that you can generally only shout to mutual friends and fans since most people turn off their incoming shouts except to friends. If you shout to someone that won't accept your shout, the script will generate an error and keep going. Don't worry, just let it fail and move on.

We specify a waiting period between shouts because depending upon the speed of your internet connection the Digg server might think you've become a flooding attack and try to trip you up. Waiting 30-60 seconds (the default) seems to not be a problem.

No, this isn't a spam machine. It takes quite a bit of time to run, so it's really only useful for things like a welcome message. If you really need to blast to 200 people at a time, you'd be better off using Digg's own functionality. Likewise, if you only need to send a message to 1 or 2 people, you'd be faster to just go to their page and click "Send Shout" on their Digg page.

Visiting Your Friends

The "Go To Friend" button has had a set of radio buttons added to it that indicate which page you'd like to visit. Selecting "Profile" just takes you to their profile page (the old functionality). But now you can jump directly to their submissions, diggs, shouts send, or incoming shouts. Ok, it's not rocket science, but it does save you quite a few keystrokes or mouse clicks when you want to go check out what someone is submitting.

BTW, the Greasemonkey Script to Help Digg Your Incoming Shouts has also been upgraded to add the Digg buttons on the submissions and diggs pages of users. This is a bit of overlap with the "Digg Friends Easy" script upon which it was based, so if you're running that script too you'll want to pick which one. You must have our script installed in order to use the premium Manage Shouts functions, so guess which one we suggest?

Getting Rid of the Deadwood

What's the best kind of friend to have on Digg? It's someone who will Digg your submissions, but not too much. If someone Diggs 100% of what you submit, Digg will decide that you've become a voting block. They then discount that vote -- it still counts, but not nearly as much. What you'd really like to have is someone that will consistently Digg around 20% of what you submit. Those people are gold. On the other hand, friends that never vote for your submissions are pretty much worthless. And since Digg limits you to 1,000 friends, after you hit that number (quite easy to do with this tool), you'll going to need to start culling out the deadwood.

So how do you tell how much someone Diggs you? Select a friend (or many) in the grid, then click "Calc Deadwood". It takes a while to run -- when you think about it, there's a lot to do -- but when it comes back you'll have the "Digg Percent" and "Dugg Back Percent" columns filled in the grid. Digg percent tells what percentage of the last 100 of your submissions were dugg by that friend. Dugg Back Percent tells you what percentage of their last 100 submissions that you've dugg.

As you can see in the screen capture, I've been "stalking" some new friends. My filter is set to Friend=Yes and Mutual=No, so these are people that haven't friended me back yet. Notice the number is pretty small (13). That's because I've cut out the deadwood pretty aggressively. If I friend someone I give them about 3 weeks to friend me back or start digging my submissions. If they just ignore me, they get unfriended. You can see from the Digg Percentages that a few of them have starting Digging my submissions, even though they haven't friended me back yet. A non-mutual friend that Diggs your stuff is as good as a mutual friend, perhaps even better. So you wouldn't want to cull those out unless you had much better friend "in the pipeline." See, it's just like high school.

Digging Others Submissions

Nothing is so attractive in another as them finding us attractive. I don't remember who said that, but they were right. It goes double on Digg. If you want to get someone's attention, start digging their submissions. Better yet, digg their submissions when they've only got a few votes. You'll stand out. Keep it up, and after a while they'll friend you back and digg your stuff. If they don't, it's time to move on. There are plenty of fish on Digg.

The previous version only implemented that functionality for a single friend at a time. Now you can multi-select several friends and click the Digg Submits button and an Imacro script will fire that Diggs their last N submissions, within a range of the current number of votes on that submission. Give lots of desireable friends that treatment and you're sure to become popular!

Where we Get This Stuff

Most of these features came as suggestions in feedback from our users. If you've got an idea for some useful functionality, drop us a line or comment on the blog and we'll throw it into the pile of stuff we want to do.

So given all the time that this can save you, why haven't you upgraded to premium yet?

We've been busy beavers here at Promote My Site! Between taking in all the feedback from the beta as well as fixing some post release reported bugs and dealing with changes in the Digg pages, we've had a lot to do. We've also put out two very useful Greasemonkey scripts that you can read about in the last few days posts.

New Features in Manage Shouts

Manage Shouts is a premium feature of the PMS Social Suite. If you haven't already signed up, this feature is easily worth the price of admission if you're serious about maintaining your Digg presence.

Let's take a look at the new "Manage Shouts" tab in the PMS Social Suite:

Here's a summary of the fields:

• Digg User - remains the same. This is the user that you'll be performing your shouts for.
• Examine Each Story - remains the same. Whether to stop on each story or just blast through everything
Delete Shouts Afterwards? - remains the same. Deletes each shout after you're done with it.
• Random Percent to Digg - New Feature. This helps prevent your shouts looking like a voting group by randomly digging shouts that you receive rather than just digging everything. Leave it at the default of 100 to Digg everything that it shouted to you, or 0 and set Delete Shouts Afterwards to Yes to just clear out your queue.
• Minimum/Maximum Wait - remains the same. A randomly geneated range of time (in seconds) to wait between each operation to make the script appear a bit more, ahem, human.
• Ignore Shouts with These Keywords - New Feature. Enter a comma delimited list of keyword phrases that you'd like to ignore. If the phrase appears in the title of the shout, it won't get a vote. If you have Delete Shouts Afterwards set to Yes, you'll just delete them.

There are lots of opportunities for optimizing your Digg experience with these new features. Don't want to see any stories about the Buffalo Sabres? Just put "Sabres, Buffalo" into the Ignore Shouts with These Keywwords field, set Random Percent to Digg to 0, Examine Each Story to No, and Delete Shouts Afterwards to Yes and you'll quickly clean your queue of these stories.

Most of our features come from user feedback, so if you've got any more ideas, please drop us a line.

Here are some easy instructions to help you get going with the PMS Social Suite. Yes, you really need to read and follow the directions if you'd like to use this package!

If you upgrade using PayPal, it can take 24 hours for PayPal to notify us that your payment has cleared. That's just the way their fullfilment system works. We try to watch for new subscriptions by hand and override this, but if the system claims you haven't paid just drop us a note and we'll do the override for the first day until your payment processes.

These instructions should help you get everything installed and working correctly.  Premium users will receive additional instructions after their subscription is processed.

There are three steps to go through:

1. Preparing your Firefox browser to run iMacro and connect to our site.  Don't panic, this is pretty easy
2. Downloading and installing the right version of the iOpus iMacro plugin for Firefox.  iMacro is a leading web browser automation company and is one of the core technologies in our software.
3. Installing Grease Monkey (GM) and our GM helper scripts.  Grease Monkey is a super popular utlity for Firefox and has over 2M installations.

Now let's get started!

Preparing Your Browser

1. Please use Firefox Version 2.x.  The iOpus iMacro plugin and our software do not currently support Firefox V3, though we are all working on it.  We'll send out an email to registered users when V3 is fully supported.
2. Turn off popup blocking for digg.com and promote-my-site.com!  (The path is Tools->Options->Content->Block Popups Exceptions)

Hint for a happy life:  When using our social suite, open a new copy of Firefox.  This is because iMacro really takes over the browser and there are popup boxes and what not firing all over the place.  It's pretty hypnotic to watch, actually.  Once the scripts are running, do not switch tabs.  I usually recommend that people just start it going on whatever time consuming task (auto answering shouts, researching friends, etc) and then minimize it.    You will want to check it every once in a while because Digg's API can fail and their pages can break during load and that may confuse our scripts or cause them to pause.  Just restart the task and it'll all get caught up.

Installing iMacro

1. DO NOT LOAD THE LATEST VERSION OF iMACRO FOR FIREFOX.  Yes, the universe loves us and iOpus released a version with a bug (or feature) that kills our software.  Go to the Mozilla Add Ons History page (who knew that existed?) and download 6.0.3.4.   There are a lot of people experiencing issues with the latest release so I'm confident the iOpus guys will fix it quickly.

If you forget and one day let FireFox "upgrade" your plugin to the latest version and everything dies, you can just uninstall it via the "Tools->Add Ons" page and then reinstall the right version.  When we get all the kinks ironed out we'll send out an update mail to our registered users.

Installing Grease Monkey

1> Go to the Mozilla Add-On page and install Grease Monkey.

2> Download the Digg Confirm Script to enable deleting shouts and digging from the shoutsin page inside Digg.

3> Download the Digg Shouts to enable fast digging from the shoutsin and history pages inside Digg.

Known Bugs and Limitations

The following are known, but if you find these or any other bugs, please contact us immediately.

1. You *have* to use Firefox with the version 6.0.3.4 iMacro plugin.  Go here for the whole page.
2. When you run the Social Suite it is best if you run it in a separate FireFox instance.
3. When Social Suite is running, just leave FireFox alone.  You can minimize, but changing tabs confuses it.
4. You have to have FireFox's popup blocker turned OFF for promote-my-site.com and digg.com.

Yes, these are bit redundant from the previous section, but you we all know some people skim instructions and read the last paragraph!

Conclusion

Thanks for using our software!  Remember, please Contact Us page if you have any questions or suggestions.

You're going to want to install the PMS Digg Shouts Greasemonkey Script right away.

As we've said many times before, if you want to be effective on Digg, you need a large friend network. But more importantly, your friends need to be the type of friends that will be receptive to your shouts and Digg your articles if they like them. And the best way to have good friends is to be a good friend.

That means that you need to actively evaluate and Digg your incoming shouts. People notice when you Digg their submissions. There's nothing more attractive than someone else that finds you attractive.

Penny Pinching with your Diggs

The way some people act, you'd think Digg charges by the vote. They're very stingy about what stories they'll vote for. I'd like to think that's an altruistic "betterment of the community" approach, but in reality they're still just voting for yet another Bush bashing article or lolcats picture. The real reason people pinch pennies with their Diggs is that Digging stories takes time, and time and attention is the ultimate currency in Web 2.0

The only way to increase your "Digg Revenue" is to spend more time doing it, or create more time by being more efficient. Frankly, I'll always go with being more efficient.

Print Your Own Money

So let's print some money! We've already published the painfully simple Greasemonkey Script to Quickly Delete Your Shouts on Digg. Now here's something that really saves time.

Each time you'd like to vote for a friend's shout, you need to click the header to their story. Then wait for the page to load, which provides no more information than what you had before. The you get to click the url that leads to the actual story. Sure, Digg gets the benefit of another page refresh, but you get to spend your precious time waiting for their server.

The PMS Digg Shouts Greasemonkey Script solves that. This is what your incoming shouts screen will look like after you install the Greasemonkey script:

The script replaces the URL that would normally just point to the Digg summary page to the the story with the actual story url. Plus, it adds a "Digg" link to each story. Just click that link to Digg the story.

Your incoming shouts page takes the form htpp://digg.com/users/yourname/friends/shoutsin. Or you can get to it via Profile->Friends Activity and then clicking the "Shouts Received by [your name]" in the right column.

If you're a premium user of our PMS Social Suite you'll need to install this script in order to use the Auto shout feature. The suite now relies upon this script since it dramatically speeds up how fast you can process shouts. But if you're not a premium user (you should be!), you can still use it to dramatically improve your processing of your friends shouts. Combined with the "Delete Your Shouts on Digg" script, you can be about as efficient on a manual basis as possible.