October 6th, 2009 — Features, News, Review
I was very excited today to receive an email from Edwin announcing the new Bookmarking Demon 5 release. I quickly downloaded BMD5 and after playing with it for a couple of hours this morning, I am quite impressed with the new features that were added. Although the look is still similar to BMD4, the layout has been completely revamped and is much better organized. Anyway, in the rest of this post, let me give you guys an overview of the new changes of Bookmarking Demon 5.
The first big change of BMD5 is the new project management interface. This gives you a way to create a project for your different bookmarking campaigns and organize them more effectively. For example, I can now have one project for my Affiliit Review blog and another one for my Affiliate Marketing tips site. If you don’t want to create a project, you can always use the Default Project that comes with BMD5. Some people use Bookmarking Demon as part of their automated social bookmarking backlink services and this is a great way to organize and track your bookmarking submissions for each client.
Bookmarking Demon has always been really easy to create new social bookmarking accounts with, but BMD5 makes this even simpler with the new email verification function. As you know, when you create accounts on social bookmarking sites, many of them require you to login to your email and click on a link to verify your account. With BMD5, you don’t have to do this anymore. Now you just add in your email accounts, and the software will perform the account verification for you with a click of the ‘Process Emails’ button. There is default support for the gmail account settings, although you do have to login to your gmail and manually enable POP access so BMD can properly retrieve your emails.
Of course any automated social bookmarking tool is nothing without social bookmarking sites to bookmark to. Bookmarking Demon 5 comes with support for 29 main bookmarking sites and 100 sites overall. This includes some big ones like Digg, Mixx, Delicious, Blinklist and Propeller. BMD has always included Scuttle, Scuttle Plus and Pligg sites, but BMD5 also adds support for PHPDug sites as well.
The other noticeable feature you will see when creating accounts and bookmarking your sites is the new browser mode. Previously, Bookmarking Demon was sort of a black box and you couldn’t really see what was going on while it was operating. The new Bookmarking Demon 5 browser mode interface basically opens up an internal browser window and you can see everything that BMD5 is doing, from logging in, to submitting your bookmarks. You will also be entering in any captchas if necessary through this browser. Also, everything is now multi-threaded which means that the software can submit to mutiple sites simultaneously. This significantly shortens the time it takes for BMD to complete all of its submissions.
The last cool feature I want to highlight is the new scheduling feature. I know from the comments on this blog, that many people have been looking for a way to space out their submissions instead of doing them all at once. Now with Bookmarking Demon 5, you can. The software includes its own scheduler interface where you can specify exactly what sites you want to bookmark and when. Once you set it all up, BMD5 will run in the background and submit your sites at the time and date you’ve specified. Of course, this only works with the bookmarking sites that don’t require a captcha.
I do have a couple of issues with BMD5 that I have encountered so far. For one, the list of social bookmarking accounts that say they require a captcha isn’t very accurate. In my tests, I had to enter in several captchas even though I had selected only accounts that BMD said didn’t require one. The other thing to note is that BMD5 still seems to have some stability issues, as the program did hang on me once. However, as a longtime BMD owner, I know that Edwin is really fast with the updates, so I am sure all these issues will be addressed in due time.
If you are an existing BMD owner, then Bookmarking Demon 5 is a free update, and you should have received an email from Edwin telling you where to download it. Otherwise, you can purchase the software for $147. The amount of time you will save with Bookmarking Demon is amazing, and it really is a must have program if you have a ton of sites you need to bookmark. After you grab your copy, make sure to check out my social bookmarking strategy for utilizing BMD to further dominate the search engine rankings for your sites.
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June 14th, 2009 — How To
Today, I am going to show you my strategy for building links with Bookmarking Demon because after talking to a few of you, I am convinced that many of you guys aren’t taking advantage of the full power of the software. Many of you are only using a small subset of the social bookmarking sites available in Bookmarking Demon, and only bookmarking their one main site.
In this post, I am going to show you how to build up a super powerful network of sites that will help your main money site rise in the search engine results. These are the same strategies that the internet gurus are charging hundreds of dollars for that I will share with you for free. Just keep in mind that this will take a fair amount of work. Trust me though, it’s a great long term strategy and will make you quite a bit of money.
The strength of Bookmarking Demon is its ability to create accounts and submit pages very quickly. So why would you limit yourself to bookmarking just your main money site? With this technique, we are going to take advantage of high authority Web 2.0 sites, RSS feeds and Article directories to build up a strong network of sites for us to bookmark.
Using Web 2.0 sites
What we are first going to do is take advantage of Web 2.0 sites that let us post our own content. Many of these sites that I list below rank very well on Google. For example, Hubpages is probably my favorite of these and I current have hubs that rank #1 for some highly competitive keywords. Check this out for yourself. Search for any popular internet marketing related product in Google and I guarantee that you will see some Hubpages, Squidoo, Blogger or Wordpress sites listed in the first couple of pages. I won’t go into how to use each site, but the main idea is to write a 500 word or so article that is related to your main site, and include a link back to your site using your targeted keywords as your anchor text. For each new page you create, ping it with a pinging service like Ping.in and add each one into Bookmarking Demon. By linking to these Web 2.0 properties, you are further increasing the strength of the link back to your money site. Here are some of the best Web 2.0 sites to use:
Using Article Directories
Now take this same idea and apply it to article directories as well. This time, create a new set of original 350-500 word articles that you can use for submissions. Unlike the Web 2.0 properties, most article directories don’t let you put your links in the body of your article. Instead you need to create an author resource box which will appear at the bottom of your article. This is where you can insert a link back to your site. For the lazy, at least submit your articles to Ezinearticles and GoArticles. EzineArticles because their articles are usually highly ranked in the results and GoArticles because there is no waiting time to get your articles published. After each article is submitted, make sure to ping each article and add it into BookmarkingDemon for submission. Here is a list of the top article directories that currently give you dofollow links.
Using RSS Feeds
Your main money site should have it’s own RSS feed. In addition, when you add some content to the Web 2.0 properties I mentioned above, you will get separate RSS feed for each of sites as well. For article directories, many give you an RSS feed to your author profile. What we are going to do is take each of these feeds and submit them to RSS aggregator sites. When you add your RSS feed to each of these sites, they will actually create for you a new standalone page for you that contains the content of your feed with links back to the original page. Guess what that means? Yup, a new site that you can add into Bookmarking Demon to bookmark. A nice side benefit that I have found from using these RSS feed aggregators is that they allow your pages to get indexed by Google extremely quickly. All you need to do is ping these RSS pages whenever any content changes. Here are some of the best RSS aggregator sites to use.
Final Thoughts
The more effort you put into this link building strategy, the more benefits you will see from it. The result is your very own blog network that you control and costs nothing to setup. Each additional page you create is on a site that has high authority and Google loves this content. Plus, they give you the power to use any anchor text you like to link back to your page. A site like Hubpages gets a lot of internal traffic as well, so you should see increased traffic along with the SEO benefits. As I mentioned earlier, this Web 2.0 strategy is not new, and is used by many people. However, the twist though is to use your copy of Bookmarking Demon to exponentially increase the strength of your blog network. If you perform just one Bookmarking Demon run on each new page you create, that’s at least 100 extra links to your network that is all funneling back to your main money site. Just think about doing multiple runs with it. This is what makes this Bookmarking Demon strategy insanely powerful.
I hope you liked this post and in my next one I will show you how you can save a ton of time building up this blog network by spending a little bit of cash. I also have an additional bonus for you guys. If you want to find out where I learned this original Web 2.0/RSS strategy and understand it in more detail, I have access to an audio interview with internet guru Jason Katzenback called Web 2.0 Cash, where he discusses this technique in depth. It is about an hour long, and I guarantee you will learn a lot from it. All you need to do, is put in your name and email address in the form below, and I will give you access to it immediately for free. Don’t worry, I don’t spam.
June 4th, 2008 — How To
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.
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