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.

BMD 4 Beginner Mode

BMD 4 Expert Mode

• 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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