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.

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.

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.