Big Mikes SocialBot - are there tutorials?

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Hi Everyone,

Wasn't sure where to ask this so plumped for here, I figure I will be moved if in the wrong place.

Also, a long time since my last visit and post here at WF. That is due to a death in the family (sad) but also I got married (happy) on valentines day. So my life took several turns which prevented me working at my business at all, so just now getting back to things.

One of those things is that before I stopped due to the death in my family, I had just bought Big Mikes Social Bot V3 - had downloaded it but never even got as far as installing it!

The other day I got Mikes email regarding upgrading to V4 so promptly went through everything and now have myself a nice shiny new Version 4.

So at last to the question, I went onto Incasoft.com to see if there was a forum or tutorials and couldn't find tutorials (might have been looking in the wrong place) and the forum link is broken, so I can't go there to register and see if there are tutorials there..

So does anyone know if there are tutorials anywhere and can you pretty please point me in the right direction.

Thanks everso
Sue
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  • Profile picture of the author Carol666
    Hi Sue,

    I don't think there are any tutorials
    I managed to work out how to use the program by printing out the instructions and going through them step by step (in case you hadn't noticed they are in the help menu).
    I have managed to use the program to bookmark all of my website's so if you have a specific problem or get stuck on anything I can probably help.

    Carol
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    • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
      Originally Posted by Carol666 View Post

      Hi Sue,

      I don't think there are any tutorials
      I managed to work out how to use the program by printing out the instructions and going through them step by step (in case you hadn't noticed they are in the help menu).
      I have managed to use the program to bookmark all of my website's so if you have a specific problem or get stuck on anything I can probably help.

      Carol
      Thanks Carol, I will go back and check the help menu, I might have missed it, it's been a long day

      Sue
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      • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
        Just checked and there is nothing in the HELP part except for links to Incasoft, traffic mania and to sell SocialBot, this is version 4, Carol do you still have version 3? perhaps the help button is different in each version.

        Thanks again for your help Carol.

        Anyone else have any ideas?
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        • Profile picture of the author bombdiggity
          Originally Posted by SusanneUK View Post

          Just checked and there is nothing in the HELP part except for links to Incasoft, traffic mania and to sell SocialBot, this is version 4, Carol do you still have version 3? perhaps the help button is different in each version.

          Thanks again for your help Carol.

          Anyone else have any ideas?
          I can send you the .pdf over Skype if you want. I just added you to my contacts. Just send me a message whenever you get on and I'll send it your way.
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          • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
            Thanks Joshua, am logged into skype now. Just sent you a pm as well

            Cheers
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            • Profile picture of the author Brawnydt
              I managed to figure out the socialbot v4 without the help, just by poking around for a while.

              You can set up multiple company profiles, which is good if you are managing the social bookmarking for... well multiple companies with multiple accounts. I've read that people like to set up 5 accounts or more per website, but that's an insane amount of work, and I'll probably hire that out if I can ever the the program to work properly for me.

              Once you set up your company profile, you have to enter in your account information to each of the social websites you want to use.

              After that, go to "sites" in sites you enter in your website address, and then click spider. The program will spend about 5 minutes or so spidering your website and building a database of all the available pages.

              Next you go to "pages" and click the individual pages you want to submit. It automatically fills in the info for each page, or you can change it. You can click on the "advanced" button and enter in additional titles and descriptions which will randomly be rotated into the submissions. (this is the coolest feature)

              Once you set up what you want, check the boxes for the pages you want to submit and then click "submit" and it should do its thing. Windows will open and close, and it will automatically submit your site to all the directories, pulling up the captcha when it needs to be entered. In theory.

              The program isn't working quite right for me at the moment, it hangs on most of the websites and won't get past the logon screen for many of them. I'm sure they are working on it though. This program has the potential to totally rock, especially since they added the bigger social sites with this new version.

              It looks like you can schedule the program to only submit a certain amount of bookmarks per day, but I haven't figured that part out yet.

              Hope that helps... and is accurate... :p
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  • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
    Susanne,

    If you open SB4 and click the Help icon, a 36 page PDF with instructions should load in your browser.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
      Originally Posted by John Rogers View Post

      Susanne,

      If you open SB4 and click the Help icon, a 36 page PDF with instructions should load in your browser.

      John
      John thank you, I finally found it, like an idiot I was clicking the drop down arrows and didn't think to click on the actuali icons themselves! Duh!! Teach me to start things when I am tired LOL

      Anyway thanks to you and to all those who helped on this thread.

      Sue
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    • Profile picture of the author traces2757
      Originally Posted by John Rogers View Post

      Susanne,

      If you open SB4 and click the Help icon, a 36 page PDF with instructions should load in your browser.

      John
      Hey John...just happened to notice where you're from. I'm waving to you from next door in Belfair!
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      • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
        Received the update email today (thanks guys for that, fast work).

        Trouble is I don't quite understand the instructions in the email, perhaps because I am new to using SocialBot.

        This is what it says in the email:

        To obtain the update, visit the URL below and save the SocialBot.zip file to your computer. Then, unzip the SocialBot.exe file to your installation folder and you'll be all set
        So have visited the URL, saved the zip file and unzipped it but it is the last part I don't understand how that gets the update into my SocialBot, sorry to be dense.. this bit:

        "Then, unzip the SocialBot.exe file to your installation folder and you'll be all set"

        er which installation folder, do you just mean the folder on my computer where they are all stored or do you mean I need to open up socialbot and do something in there.. sorry for my blond moment, can anyone tell me what I need to do?

        Thanks for any help

        Sue
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        • Profile picture of the author Brawnydt
          yea he means the folder it installed the program in on your computer. there should already be a socialbot.exe there, replace it with the new file.

          New version seems to do a lot better. Still hangs on some of the big ones for me like Mixx and Folkd. Which is sad cause those are my two favorite services. But I can't complain I guess. I got RSSbot and Directorybot too, and let me just say I'm super happy with those!
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          • Profile picture of the author Susan Hope
            Originally Posted by Brawnydt View Post

            yea he means the folder it installed the program in on your computer. there should already be a socialbot.exe there, replace it with the new file.

            New version seems to do a lot better. Still hangs on some of the big ones for me like Mixx and Folkd. Which is sad cause those are my two favorite services. But I can't complain I guess. I got RSSbot and Directorybot too, and let me just say I'm super happy with those!
            OK thanks, done that now and next time I will know what they mean LOL

            Hopefully it will all work, don't have time to find out now, will later or tomorrow.

            Thanks again
            Sue
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        • Profile picture of the author my_addict_mind
          i just bought incansoft's main 3 products (rssbot, directorybot, socialbot), and I was never this happy with my purchase. With a little setup of the profiles/accounts, it can actually replace senuke in terms of bookmarking and rss submission.

          overall, i was impressed with big mike's products. thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
        Originally Posted by traces2757 View Post

        Hey John...just happened to notice where you're from. I'm waving to you from next door in Belfair!
        Hi Tracy. I'm waving back. Can you see?

        I don't get up highway 3 much, but I recently heard there's a cool place for off roading out by Tahuya. Since there are also some good little fishing lakes out there, I'll probably shoot up that way a couple of times this summer.

        Do you know any other IM'ers up that way? Maybe we could do a local meetup.

        John
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        • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
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          Version 5 will create your website, cash your checks and send them to you on your remote island getaway
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          And includes a bunch of virgins in Hula Skirts for entertainment
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          • Profile picture of the author stanwa
            Much better with the upgrade. I'm thinking of getting RSSbot.
            What's the general opinion on it?

            Stan
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  • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
    Socialbot V4 has lots of new features, and I must say I am impressed! However, I wish they added more automated account creation tools, that is a necessity for working with bookmarking sites without easily get banned.

    If they can add more support to proxy (not sure in this version), and some way to auto bookmark other sites using RSS or other better ways to minimize self promotion footprint would be a big plus...!

    I'm sure big mike will continue to improve this software, I like the added support for more bigger authority sites in ver 4.0, and the account management has improve.

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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
    Congrats on your new marital status, Sue.



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    • Profile picture of the author ArtfulWebSites
      I had been using SocialBot v3 successfully for many months. It worked fairly fast and reliably. I especially got great results with submissions to StumbleUpon.

      I just installed SocialBot v4 yesterday, although there are some GREAT improvements (not the least of which are the added authority SB sites), there are some problems.

      On my first trial run of v4, it worked completely for SB sites: Backflip, Bibsonomy, Diigo (although I had to manually click the submit button for each page), Spurl, and Technorati. It worked partially (6/10 pages) for Blinklist.

      It failed completely (0/10 pages) for SB sites: Mister-wong, Simpy, StumbleUpon, Yahoo, and del.icio.us. And in some cases (Mister-wong, StumbleUpon, and Yahoo), SocialBot reported a status of "Completed".

      Plus, it seems to run alot slower. Probably in part because it is not readily responding to some of the SB dialogs.

      I have reported these problems to Incansoft, and Michalis (one of the principals), has responded that they are working on it.

      I hope they can get this fixed, especially StumbleUpon, or I will have to regress back to v3.

      Also, I am not clear on how you associate a particular Company Profile with some collection of sites. Can anyone clarify that?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Stewart
    Hi Sue,

    Don't feel bad, I couldn't find it either. I was glad to see that you'd already asked the question.

    Congratulations on your marriage!
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  • Profile picture of the author mdvaldosta
    It seems to work fine for me (at the moment).
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    • Profile picture of the author stanwa
      I had version 3, but never really got round to using it before version 4 came out. I'm having the problem of it hanging when submitting to sites. I've tried it 4 times today and each time it's failed on different sites. It's getting very frustrating because it could be an awesome tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArtfulWebSites
    See my post above (#14) for details on what I experienced. You might get it to proceed if you bring up the progress window and respond manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    I'm having the same experience with it waiting on certain sites for me to plug in something manually, or move to a different page than the one it's landed on - then it keeps running automagically. Unfortunately it's not the same site every time that it stops on! So it does still need babysitting.

    I would like to be able to set up several sites to bookmark one after the other automatically (a few pages on each) but it seems to only do one site at a time. Is there a way to do that, anyone know?

    Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author ArtfulWebSites
    You can create a new profile with just the Social sites that work fully automatically and just submit to that profile without having to babysitting for that profile.
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    • Profile picture of the author stanwa
      If you only do the fully automatic sites you miss out on some of the high page ranked sites.

      Another problem is that I'm getting the thread aborted before it's finished submitting to that profile.

      I've contacted Big Mike about this and it will probably turn out that's it's me whose screwing up.
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      • Profile picture of the author jeanwong
        I have read the tutorials and seems to me that it submit websites but there was no mention on submitting articles. Wish to make use of socialbot to submit articles that I have submitted to ezine. Is it possible?

        Jean
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        • Profile picture of the author Alan Mc Donald
          how many SB sites does social bot 4 submit to guys? i have been thinking about buying it

          thanks

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        • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
          Originally Posted by jeanwong View Post

          I have read the tutorials and seems to me that it submit websites but there was no mention on submitting articles. Wish to make use of socialbot to submit articles that I have submitted to ezine. Is it possible?
          Yes, you just manually add your article pages as a site and a page in that site rather than letting Socialbot spider it.
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      • Profile picture of the author ArtfulWebSites
        Originally Posted by stanwa View Post

        If you only do the fully automatic sites you miss out on some of the high page ranked sites.

        Another problem is that I'm getting the thread aborted before it's finished submitting to that profile.

        I've contacted Big Mike about this and it will probably turn out that's it's me whose screwing up.
        I guess I neglected to mention the other part - you make another profile with the ones that need manually attention.

        You can submit to the "automatic profile" and go on and do other things until it finishes. Then you can submit to the "manual profile" when you have the time to babysit it and manually respond. Time consuming and a bit of a pain, but at least you can proceed with your promotions.
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    • Profile picture of the author stanwa
      Thanks Mike for assuring everybody.
      Received your email.
      What I have found is that every component on the page details needs to be filled in (keywords, etc) although there are still a couple of problems with socialbot not logging in to some sites, but not always the same sites.

      I'm sure it will be sorted out.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArtfulWebSites
    Mike,

    Thanks so much for your detailed post and reply to our concerns. It is comforting to know you guys are on top of it, and exciting to know there will be an updated release in a few days. Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Brawnydt
      Thanks very much Big Mike! This is the best program I've ever seen to submit to all the big sites and the little ones too. Very very powerful. I can't wait to get the update and get it working!
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      • Profile picture of the author Tom Ryan
        I just started using SocialBot, and I love it. It is definitely a time saver. Big Mike has some great products.
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  • Profile picture of the author mesol
    I did not receive any email regarding SB v4, could I use download link of SB v3 to download this one?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brawnydt
    RSSbot is pretty dang good. It submits to some of the good directories I like. I use it in conjunction with RSSsubmitter and between the two, I think I've got my bases covered... maybe double teamed.
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  • Profile picture of the author jenna122
    I just purchased RSSBot but it does not come with tutorials.
    The help section does not explain the software as well.
    I can't figure it out.
    Can someone please point me in the direction of how to use this software.
    Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Alexander
    if BigMike created it, it's probably so easy to use that you don't need tutorials. greek master of KISS!
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    I just bought all 5 of Big Mike's "bot" software yesterday (for $7.77 each, why wouldn't I?), and found the online help files to be good in stepping through the set up and use of each of them.

    Also, so far, this software has proven to me to be a huge bargain. I recommend it highly.
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