Blog Entries - July 2008

Add the ProBlogger 538 Twitter Users that Blog List the Easy Way

ltdraper — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 putti [...]

Add the ProBlogger Friends List the Easy Way

ltdraper — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 enti [...]

Fireboard has an RSS Feed

ltdraper — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 s [...]

The Right People on Social Networks

Don — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 craf [...]

What's in Our Bugzilla?

ltdraper — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 [...]

How to Block Obnoxious Digg Shouts

ltdraper — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 d [...]

New Features in Manage Friends

Don — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 fansShouting - Send a shout to a group of friendsGo To Friend Page - more options for which page to visitMulti Digg Submits - now y [...]

New Features in Manage Shouts

Don — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 Socia [...]

Installing iMacro and Grease Monkey to Run the Promote-My-Site Social Suite

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 [...]

Greasemonkey Script to Help Digg Your Incoming Shouts

Don — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

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 [...]

Greasemonkey Script to Quickly Delete Your Shouts in Digg

Don — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Sometimes you just slap your head because a very hard problem has such a simple answer.

If you use Digg, you're well aware how painful it is to delete your incoming shouts if you have a large number of friends. And of course,
if you're serious about promoting anything on Digg, you'll have a lot of friends. After a week of vacation over the 4th of July, I
recently came back to 50 pages of incoming shouts. That's a lot of clicking on the delete button and the "Are You Sure you want [...]

Social Suite Beta Test Conclusions and Completion

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0100

I'd like to thank everyone for their testing on the Social Suite with Digg Analytics and Automation. It was, well, interesting. I've done a lot of beta testing inside client sites but haven't really released a program into the wild since before the internet. (Remember FidoNet and shareware distribution? Yikes!)

At the end of the day we decided that it was usable enoug [...]