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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 traffic from them, but hey, enjoy the many backlinks!

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.

Purchasing BookmarkingDemon was quite straightforward. I immediately received my download link and I had to enter my name and email address so I could receive my password. One bad thing is that my main system is a Mac and Bookmarking Demon is for Windows only - so I had to go grab my Windows laptop to install the software on. The site says it works with Windows XP, but I was able to get things working on Vista. The download link I got was for the May 24th version of BookmarkingDemon and from reading the help, the software gets updated quite often.

When you first start BookmarkingDemon, you are first asked to input your password which you should have received in your email. Once that’s in you are dropped into the Drivers screen.

A driver is basically a single bookmarking site and this first page allows you to create your accounts at all sites currently supported by BookmarkingDemon. The first thing I did was click on the Create accounts for all drivers button. This pops up a dialog that lets you input your users’ First name, Last name, Login, Password, and email. Now here’s the first cool part. If you enter a bunch of login names separated by commas, BookmarkingDemon will randomly pick from the list of names to create an account with. Think about it, that’s a great feature. After you enter the user account info, Bookmarking Demon will start doing its thing and create the accounts for you. Unfortunately, you can’t walk away at this point as you have to enter in a bunch of CAPTCHAS as they pop up. The process takes several minutes, but when it’s complete you’ll see a list of what sites Bookmarking Demon was able to create accounts for. As bookmarking sites are always changing, so is BookmarkingDemon, but it looks like it will never reach 100% a success rate. Still, in my limited experience, account creation works well enough.

Up Next: Bookmarking my site