December 29th, 2008 — Features, News
I just had a chance to upgrade to Bookmarking Demon 4.1 today and I’m happy to see that there is a lot of new stuff in this version. First of all, for existing Bookmarking Demon 4 users, upgrading is a snap. Just unzip the bmd4.1.zip file and replace the new file EdwinSoft.BookmarkingDemon.exe with your existing file. Once you’ve done that you’re good to go.
The first thing you’ll notice when launching Bookmarking Demon 4.1 are the newly added social bookmarking sites. Here is the full list sorted by PR:
As you can see, there are now a full 20 main bookmarking sites available for your use. Bookmarking Demon 4.1 also adds support for Pligg sites. For those who are not familiar with it, Pligg is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows you to create Digg style social voting sites. There are 12 Pligg sites included in this release and the ones I checked all had dofollow links and a Page Rank of 2 or 3. Scuttle, Scuttle Plus and Pligg sites are also now pingable in this release.
There are some minor changes to the UI. For example, in Expert Mode you can now choose not to use certain user accounts for bookmarking by dragging them into a separate area. This also works for specific pages you want to bookmark. This is especially handy if you’re using the built in website crawler on a site to gather pages to bookmark and you want to exclude certain pages.
Bookmarking Demon 4.1 is also a little smarter. The tool will now detect if you’ve already bookmarked a site using a particular account. It’s also smart enough to check if you’ve already created an account on a particular social bookmarking site.
One last thing Edwin has included with this release are some videos. There are now screencasts for pretty much every feature of Bookmarking Demon available on the main site. You can see them all here: http://bookmarkingdemon.com/trainingvideos.htm. If you’re looking to buy the program, check out the videos first to see how everything works.
I just checked the main site, and I was suprised to see that Bookmarking Demon 4 can still be bought for the original $97 price. There is a headline that says that they’re still having a “pre-launch special” before the “official launch”. I’m not sure when that will be, but make sure you pick up your copy of Bookmarking Demon before any price increase.
October 7th, 2008 — Features
There are a lot of new changes in the recently released Bookmarking Demon 4 Beta and I like to give a quick overview of the new features of this version. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now, and even though it’s only 60% complete, I’m actually quite impressed with what I’ve seen so far.
The first thing you’ll notice after downloading BMD4 is that there is no installer. Just run the executable and the program launches. This is especially useful now if you want to carry BookmarkingDemon 4 on your thumb-drive or sync it with a web syncing service like DropBox. Speaking of sharing though, one not so cool change in BMD4 is with the license agreement. The previous version of Bookmarking Demon allowed you to run your copy on multiple computers simultaneously. Unfortunately starting with version 4, you can install the program on multiple computers but only one instance of Bookmarking Demon can be run at a time.
When you launch BookmarkingDemon, you’ll first notice the complete UI overhaul. All the buttons are nice and big, and it just feels more accessible than the spartan interface of BMD3. At the top left, you’ll notice the ‘For Beginner’ and ‘For Experts’ tabs. Beginner mode essentially hides many of the advanced features of the interface so that novice users aren’t overwhelmed. Experts mode gives you access to everything.
Creating Accounts
The account creation page is the first thing you will see when launching Bookmarking Demon. Creating accounts is similar to BMD3 except that everything is streamlined by being accessible on the same page. By separating usernames with commas, Bookmarking Demon will randomly choose a username for each account you create. In BMD4 beta, there are currently on 5 main bookmarking sites: Delicious, a1-webmarks, searchles, faves.com, and spurl.net. More should be coming in the final release. Press the Create Now button and Bookmarking Demon goes off to create your accounts. You’ll be required to enter a captcha for any sites that require it. Once it’s done, you’ll get a dialog showing you whether or not Bookmarking Demon was able to create your account or not. You’re also reminded to check the email you used and verify any of the accounts that require email verification.
Bookmarking Your Pages
Adding your pages is now super easy to do as well. Just enter your urls in the textbox and click the Add Now button. Bookmarking Demon will now by default, automatically try and grab your site information from the meta tags. New to BMD4 is the { | } syntax in the description field. This allows you to specify alternate keywords in your descriptions to help avoid any duplicate content penalties. Now you can enter something like “Bookmarking Demon is a {great|impressive|awesome} piece of software” and BMD will choose between one of those 3 keywords when submitting to a particular site.
It is important when submitting your urls to the main bookmarking sites to avoid appearing like a spammer. One way to do this is to hide your links among other legitimate links. A great new feature is the ability to add RSS feeds, and Bookmarking Demon will randomly pull articles from these feeds your specify and submit them along with each of your urls. You can set this in the Preferences (available in Expert Mode). I’ve been using the rss feeds from Digg and Techcrunch and it works quite well.
Once you’ve set up your urls and added your feeds, it’s a simple matter to hit the Start Bookmarking button and submit your sites. A dialog pops up with a lot of information telling you what exactly the program is doing in real time. After several minutes, all your urls should be added. In each of my tests, all my bookmarks were successful submitted to each of the 5 main sites.
All in all, I think the BMD4 beta is quite an improvement over its predecessor. I like the UI changes quite a bit and the whole process of creating accounts and submitting your sites just feels a lot easier to do than before. Of course, it only supports 5 main bookmarking sites at the moment which is somewhat lacking. I’m hoping to see more added soon, as well as the introduction of the pinging feature. There are also several options in the preferences that I haven’t played around with yet, so I’m interested in doing some more exploration. I know existing owners of Bookmarking Demon have been impatient while waiting for the final release of Bookmarking Demon 4, but I think the beta is a nice step, and it shows us that Edwin is working to make Bookmarking Demon great. While we’re in this beta period, you can still get in at the old $97 price. So if you’re contemplating buying BMD4, make sure to get in while you can before the price gets raised.
September 27th, 2008 — News
Another update from Edwin, and still more delays. According to Edwin, the one feature that’s holding up the new release of Bookmarking Demon 4 is the new pinging feature. However, there should be a beta release of BMD4 coming out very soon that we should be able to play with. Although I was looking forward to the new pinging feature, I still would love to test drive the beta release to see how well it works.
September 1st, 2008 — News
In his last email, Edwin also released a couple of screenshots of the upcoming BMD4. As you can see, Bookmarking Demon 4 has undergone a complete rewrite and now has a completely new look and feel.
BMD 4 Beginner Mode
BMD 4 Expert Mode
August 31st, 2008 — News
In my last post, I stated that Bookmarking Demon 4 was set to come up the 2nd week of August. Well, it’s the end of August, and still no BMD4. However, Edwin did send out an email to all customers apologizing for the delay and he also gave us a preview of what’s going to be in this new version. So here’s a taste of what’s coming up.
- Bookmark to 100+ Social Bookmarking Sites
Bookmarking Demon 4 will now work with 20 Main Sites + Scuttle Sites + Scuttle Plus Sites + Pligg Sites
- New Randomize Description Syntax
Along with the current #break# syntax, you can now use the new ‘{|}’ syntax to do something like this:
Bookmarking Demon is the {best | greatest | cheapest} Bookmarking {tool | software | program} available.
- Bookmark random accounts
Now you can select a random number of accounts to use for bookmarking.
- Ping feature
After creating your bookmarking account, you will now have access to the rss feed of that account. This allows you to ping your profile’s feed from within BMD4.
- Grab random sites to hide your bookmarks
Bookmarking Demon 4 will now take random urls from the internet and mix them in with your own urls.
- Beginner and Expert Modes
- Multithreaded for faster bookmarking
All in all, this sounds like an exciting looking release. The new bookmark random accounts and pinging feature sound especially cool. Bookmarking Demon 4 will retail for $147, but if you buy now, you can still lock in at the $97 price.
July 27th, 2008 — News
A couple of people have ask me when the next version of BookmarkingDemon is coming out. According to the website, BMD v4 is scheduled for released during the second week of August. BMD4 is supposed to be a major upgrade and will be sold at a higher price then the current $97. However, existing members can buy version 3.6.1 now, and get the upgrade for free when it comes out. So if you’re on the fence about picking up a copy of Bookmarking Demon, I would suggest you jump in now. The 2nd week of August is coming upon us very soon. I’m very anxious to see what the new features will be in this new version.
July 20th, 2008 — Features
The latest version of Bookmarking Demon (version 3.6.1), supports 13 different social networking sites. I’ve compiled the list of supported sites, including its page rank and whether the site is nofollow or dofollow.
del.icio.us PR 9 nofollow
furl.net PR 7 nofollow
bibsonomy.org PR 6 dofollow
bmaccess.net PR 4 dofollow
faves.com PR 5 nofollow
getboo.com PR 4
linkagogo.com PR 6 dofollow
mister-wong.com PR 7 dofollow
netrocket.com PR 5 dofollow
netvouz.com PR 6 nofollow
simpy.com PR 6
spotback.com PR 5 dofollow
spurl.net PR 6 dofollow
taggly.com PR 5
June 15th, 2008 — Review
Update Sept 27, 2008
For those checking at this time, this site no longer appears in Google’s index for the terms described below. That’s because, for some reason, my webhost (Dreamhost) “accidently” deleted this site from their server. I’ve been getting things back up and hopefully the site gets re-indexed in a little bit.
I’ve now been using Bookmarking Demon for 10 days and I wanted to give an updated review on my experiences so far. One of the advantages cited by the program is that it will help your sites get indexed by Google faster. Well, if you are expecting BookmarkingDemon to get your site indexed in 1 or 2 days, you will probably be disappointed. As a test, I performed a couple of Bookmarking Demon runs on this site, which was only a couple of days old and previously unindexed. I did this on the 5th of June, and I did not see this site indexed until June 9th. Four days is not too bad, but you can probably get indexed faster by getting links from a PR4 or PR5 site.
What I am happy with are my search results. As I check at this moment, I now rank #1 for the term bookmarkingdemon review and #2 for the term bookmarking demon review. I also rank #13 for bookmarking demon and #16 for bookmarkingdemon. I’m sure I’m helped quite a bit by my domain name, but I’m quite impressed by the results.
After 10 days of usage though, what I love the most about BookmarkingDemon is the amount of time I’m saving. I have around 20 sites in my portfolio and I have one of my computers dedicated to using BookmarkingDemon and continually submitting my sites. Doing this by hand would be near impossible and this is what makes this program great. If anyone has any questions about the program, feel free to ask in the comments.
June 5th, 2008 — How To
Ok, I’ve been doing some more research and playing around, and here are 4 tips for using Bookmarking Demon.
1) Add as many keywords (at least 8-10) as you can to your url submissions. Each keyword you include becomes a new page and backlink to your site. 20 social bookmarking sites * 10 tags = 200 links per Bookmarking Demon run.
2) Remember to check the email you used to create your accounts and activate the accounts. This is kind of obvious, but I’ve already forgotten a couple of times after creating new accounts.
3) When using the regular bookmarking sites (not the scuttle ones), make sure and mask your links. When submitting your own sites, make sure and mix in other urls from other sites as well. Add pages from sites like Techcrunch, Mashable, Engadget, etc or you can use Stumbleupon to give you some suggestions.
4) Scuttle away. While you need to be careful using regular bookmarking sites, go wild and submit your URLs to the scuttle sites. I didn’t know what these were previously, but scuttle sites are basically unknown, low traffic social bookmarking sites created by a scuttle script. Now, don’t expect much website traffic from them, but hey, enjoy the many backlinks!
June 4th, 2008 — How To
The next couple of tabs in BookmarkingDemon are labeled Multiscuttle and Search for Scuttles. At this time, I have no idea what these do, but anyway, I just want to bookmark my site. The site I am going to test with is a Sudoku related site that I had created awhile back. According to Google Webmaster Tools, it currently is at position 27 for the term ‘free sudoku’ and position 325 for ’sudoku’. Lets see if BookmarkingDemon can help a bit with its ranking.
The Bookmark URL tab is pretty simple. To add a site to bookmark, you first need to click on the Add URL button.
A dialog pops up where you enter your site’s url. To fill out the rest of the form (title, keywords, and description), Bookmarker Demon has a handy shortcut you can invoke by pressing the Load from meta tags button. This pings your site and fills out the rest of the form by using your site’s meta data. When you’re finished, you end up back in the Bookmark URL tab with your site added to the list and the title, keywords, and description fields filled out. Here again, you’ll be able to utilize BookmarkingDemon’s sweet randomizing function. This works with all three fields and lets you change up the content on each bookmarking site your site gets submitted to. When you’re ready to go, just click the BOOKMARK! and your site gets added to each bookmarking site. The whole process takes a couple of minutes and this time there are no captchas to enter. When Bookmarking Demon is complete, it pops up a dialog showing which bookmarking sites it was able to add your site to. All in all, it was quite a painless process. Basically in under 15 minutes I was able to create my accounts and submit a site. Up next, I will take a look at some of the other options of BookmarkingDemon that I have yet to explore.
