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.