Tuesday, January 13, 2009

My Quick And Dirty Bookmarking Demon 4.1 Review

By Mike Wong

It took awhile, but finally Bookmarking Demon 4 is upon us. Creator Edwin Brian completely rewrote the program from scratch and it features a brand new user interface, and some exciting new capabilities to make it the ultimate social bookmarking tool. With Bookmarking Demon, you can now bookmark all your sites easily and safely.

For those who are not familiar with it, Bookmarking Demon is a software that automates creating accounts and submitting pages to social bookmarking sites. It supports twenty different major bookmarking sites including delicious.com, mister-wong.com, and furl.net. It can also submit your pages to Scuttle, Scuttle Plus, and Pligg sites which are typically smaller type sites.

There are quite a few benefits from using a tool like Bookmarking Demon:

Laser targeted backlinks - Bookmarking Demon allows you to submit tags for each site, and each tag creates its own page on the social bookmarking site. So to calculate the number of backlinks you will be receiving, just multiple the number of tags by the number of sites you submit.

Faster search engine indexing - This is especially useful for newly created sites. By utilizing the new Ping feature of Bookmarking Demon 4, you can notify the web crawlers right away to come to your just submitted site and index it in their results.

Increased search engine rankings - Bookmarking Demon 4 supports twenty major social bookmarking sites, and the majority of them contain do-follow links. This means any link juice these sites carry will be passed on to your site. For example, Mister-Wong.com has a Page Rank of 7, and a do-follow link from them carries a lot of weight. The more high quality backlinks you have to your site, the higher your site will rank in the search engines.

The first thing you'll notice in Bookmarking Demon 4.1, is that it features a brand new interface. Gone is the bland UI, and in its place is a more colorful and more friendly looking interface. The program is also more functional as everything can be done on the pages themselves which makes the whole bookmarking workflow more streamlined.

There is a handy new syntax that is introduced by Bookmarking Demon 4.1 which will help you avoid getting flagged for having duplicate content. Now, in your descriptions you can write something like: "Cooking steak is difficult " When Bookmarking Demon sees this syntax in a site description or title, it will randomly pick one of the words from the choices when bookmarking to a site.

One of my favorite features of Bookmarking Demon 4 is its support of RSS feeds. If you go to the preferences, you can add the RSS feeds of your favorite sites like (Techcrunch or Digg). When Bookmarking Demon goes to submit your own pages, it will randomly take pages from these feeds and bookmark them along with your site. By doing this, you hide the fact that you are really only promoting your own sites.

This feature is still a little buggy in my experience, but the new ping feature is a nice addition to Bookmarking Demon 4.1. After you've finished submitting your sites, you can have Bookmarking Demon ping your social bookmarking site profile, along with the page that you bookmarked. This lets the search engines know to check out the site to see what's been updated. Doing this allows your sites to get indexed in the results very quickly.

There's a lot to like about this new Bookmarking Demon 4.1 release. It is easier to use, and includes a lot more functionality than the previous version. If you have a lot of websites you're trying to promote, you'll definitely want to give Bookmarking Demon a try. It will help you get your sites indexed quickly, and give you tons of high quality backlinks. Instead of performing the time consuming process of submitting all your sites by hand, let Bookmarking Demon do it for you. You'll save yourself a ton of time.

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