Bookmarking Demon Report: What You Need to Know
Before I delve into juicy details of this report, it is really important that you know a few important things:
- I haven’t used any other automated social bookmarking software, so I have nothing to compare Bookmarking Demon to
- I’m a “regular” user, one who understands the basics of using Bookmarking Demon (I suppose a good chunk of the people who use BMD are users like me)
- I’ve been using Bookmarking Demon on and off for about 3 weeks.
- I am reviewing Bookmarking Demon Version 5.5.1.0
If you need to know why I have been using backlinks, please have a read here: Bookmarking Demon: Helpful Social Bookmarking Software or Bust?
Quick Overview
In order to rank your website/blog, you (most of the time) need to create some serious backlinks. You can do this manually of course: create guest posts and have the keyword text in your author blog point back to your site, submit articles to article directories with resource blurb pointing at your site, create social bookmarking accounts and point those to your site… well, you get the idea.
If you think all this manual work blows, you’re right: it damn well does. One alternative is to find a proper “automation” tool that can help you do all these tasks. Other alternatives would include outsourcing the work or using a web-based social bookmarking service. One of the tools that I came across last year was Bookmarking Demon.
How Did I Use Bookmarking Demon?
I had a simple mission: use the Bookmarking Demon to create backlinks. Not only to create backlinks but also to save time and not have to fill in the nitty gritty details. This tool allows you to work in two modes: beginner’s mode and expert mode. If you want more control over your accounts, then expert mode is the way to go (once you’re more comfortable with the software, you’ll definitely want to delve into expert mode).
There are five steps to go through. The first one allows you to create accounts with about 99 social bookmarking sites. Once you create these accounts, Bookmarking Demon allows you to easily process the confirmation emails by clicking on a button (as long as you take a few minutes and setup POP 3 email; very easy to do, did it multiple times without any problems). Once that has been done, your account(s) are ready to be used as you desire.
The next thing you can do is add the URLs that you’d like to bookmark. You can do something cool like “crawl” a website or RSS feed.
What does this mean? It means that the software will crawl your website and pull all the links/pages it can find on your site. This is pretty cool, as you can collect all the pages you need in a quick process.
If you do purchase Bookmarking Demon, I highly suggest you read all the guides that come with it. The ultimate guide discusses all the strategies you can use with this social bookmarking tool and how well they can work. Another guide shows you the more advanced features.
After you’ve added your URL’s, you can individually pick which accounts you want to use for bookmarking and off you go. During the submission process, there might be captchas that you’ll have to enter (depending on the social bookmarking site(s) that you’ve selected):
[Note: Sometimes the captcha images get ridiculous and even I have a hard time with them. Are these social bookmarking sites trying to keep humans from signing up as well? ;]
After you’re done, you’ll receive a report on all the submissions, whether they’ve been successful or not:
The Specifics
After reading the accompany guides, I implemented a strategy or two into my Bookmarking Demon submissions. The week before I tested for this review, I started noticing a low success rate when creating new accounts. Knowing that this report was coming up, I had to analyze what could be causing such a low success rate.
One of the warnings that kept getting repeated was the IP ban warning. Since I had created more than one accounts for each of the social bookmarking sites, I figured that my IP had been banned. To give this test run a fair shot, I signed up for a program that allows me to “alter” my IP on whim (more on this another time).
To be clear, for the last test run, I signed up with a new gmail email account and used a new IP address. The purpose was to create accounts for each of the sites (about 99-100). After a 35 minute run, here were the results:
Why Such a Low Success Rate?
If you look closely, I didn’t even end up with a 50% success rate. To be fair, this could be due to a number of factors, starting with the statement on the Bookmarking Demon website:
As “spamming” (depending on which point of view you take) increases, these social bookmarking sites are modified to counter the spam. BMD is updated fairly often and I received an update notice soon after my test run. Perhaps the update might help in producing better results.
The Verdict
Bookmarking Demon has so much potential. After all, here I’ve only shown you the snippets of what it can do. I didn’t get to delve into the actual bookmarking part but figured if account creation success rate was on the low side to begin with, then why bother with the bookmarking part? Other issues that I haven’t devled into are the “stickiness” of the accounts I’ve created and the websites I have bookmarked. My main frustration resulted from step one: account creation.
To discuss each feature in detail is beyond the scope of this review. My verdict is based on not only just one test run, but the last few times I have used BMD. The test run just happened to be well documented for the purpose of today’s report.
Based on the last few runs of BMD, I wouldn’t recommend splurging on Bookmarking Demon. However, since updates are pushed on Bookmarking Demon (plus similar software) as well as the social bookmarking sites (to fight “spammers”), I will do one last test run this week to see if there’s an increase in the account creation success rate.
I will leave you with the suggestion of reading Alex Whalley’s Automate your Social Bookmarking…Free!. However, I haven’t tested his suggestions yet and can’t endorse these tools, but hey, they’re free for your testing purposes.
Bookmarking Demon does come with a 60 day return policy (through Click Bank), so if you’d like to check it out for yourself, you can go through my BMD affiliate link or find the official website through Google yourself.
Got Beef?
Do you disagree with this report? Would you rather do manual submissions with social bookmarking sites? Please feel free to share your views.
P.S. You may also notice that I have censored the names of any social bookmarking sites that were in my images. Since this information isn’t freely available on the BMD site, it would be wrong for me to post the list. Just know there are a few popular social bookmarking sites on the list and the PR of each site is listed next to the entry.
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Fantastic review Moon!
Good to see an honest straight up review that also provides so much detail. It’s actually quite refreshing to see someone who actually knows what they are talking about in this instance too.
I think the problem with all of this automated software is the changes in security that goes on behind the scenes. I tried Mass Article Control for a while, but out of the 100′s of directories it was supposed to submit to, only 10 or so ever worked.
Thanks for the link love too btw Moon, awesome!
Still undecided as to whether IMAutomator is the bomb or not, but as you said, it’s free – so why not play with it.
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Alex,
I’m sure there’s a lot of details missing from this report but I could’ve kept going on and on about them, so I had to reel myself in quite a lot. Exactly, changes are being made so often, maybe that is the problem. I’ll try updating BMD and seeing how the next run goes.
MAC aye? Haven’t tried it, still using UAW on and off and I’ll probably review it in another month. I want to give it a good chance to run and show what it’s capable of–but at the end, what matters is if I’m ranking so I can make money.
No problem. Maybe you can give an update to which of the free tools is really worth it (after using it for a while!)
Hey Moon nice review of bookmarking demon, you are spot on when you talk about some of the problems this product has. When i started using it I was equally frustrated and it put me off using it for quite a while, but since i paid for it I had to find some way to make it work for me, and you know what I am glad i paid for it now.
When it comes to account creation you really have to weed out the websites which are not successful from the get go. Generally i only create accounts on about 20 of the best sites on BMD, because most of them are rubbish and just a waste of time. I pick from the group MAIN and one or two sites from the groups below. However for me even some of the MAIN ones don’t work so I have to weed them out too.
I have started to create mass accounts on these MAIN websites. Usually i take a half a day out of my schedule, put on some music and sit in front of the screen creating accounts. I have one project in BMD which i use to Boost my links where I have about 10 accounts on each. I think you should put some serious work into creating loads and loads of accounts, because it will really pay off when you want to create loads of social bookmarks, whether you want to index or create links. I think this is where the true power of BMD comes from.
Some things to take note of:
Dont use the email confirmation feature. It is quite faulty and it often misses confirmation links, you need as many as you can get. Do it manually.
For propellor you must change the password on your account created, because they will give you a new one in your email.This is something which i missed for thw longest time.
Make sure you run cccleaner after every account creation process and you need to use proxies or a vpn. I have a vpn called witopia which cost 69 bucks for the year and which does the trick for me.
A Myth: These links won’t stick
Most of these bookmarking links do stick, even the real spammy ones. I know this because after a few months of making bookmarking links I went back and checked, guess what? Most are still there, even some i considered so spammy i thought they would have been deleted with in hours of me making them (bookmarks to profile links).So now I have started linking to my bookmarking links which are months old, not sure how that will play out but worth a try.
I hope some of this has helped, it can be a furstrating tool to use, but in the end it is worth it. Dont let the crappy success rate bring you down
Mike, whew, I’m impressed by the long comment. I was afraid of putting up this BMD report because I thought I was straying against the grain, but whatever. I’m speaking from my own experience
I understand where you’re coming from–I’ve tried creating accounts on MAIN only, but as you mentioned, some of those account creations don’t work either. Then, sometimes, the bookmarking doesn’t go through. So what I end up is: 5 or 6 accounts which may or may not have been created on some of them….. and who knows what links each one bookmarked. Sometimes I’ll choose upto 3 bookmarks on maybe 5 different sites…. and after 15 minutes, I’ll find out that some of those didn’t go through
Account management, at that point, becomes frustrating as hell. Then I have to check which accounts have what bookmarked, and so on. But what does suck is, the time it takes to do all of this.
To eliminate as many footprints as possible, I try to create a new gmail account for a new user that will be created on 20 or 30 social networking sites. After I set that up, then I create accounts, then I wait a few days to bookmark anything. The last test run that I did, for a possibility of 99 accounts, took me 35 minutes to run, with only 35 or 36 created.
Now, when it comes to stickiness, I haven’t individually checked these accounts so I’ll take your word for it.
Hey Moon,
great review of Bookmarking Demon. Are you actually going to post another article concerning the software?
I am trying to find some piece of software that will help me to build links easily. I have already bought some software but most of them weren’t worth it at all. I guess I have to keep looking around. Great site by the way.
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I’ll probably give it a few more runs, especially after updating the software. Who knows, maybe it will really help. I just want a tool that works, a process that saves time. I guess I’ll be doing it manually for a little while
Sounds good. By the way I just saw that you left a comment on my blog. But for some reason it landed in the spam folder. I didn’t get a chance to read it because I simply clicked on Delete Spam but when I scrolled down I saw your comment. Anyway would you be willing to share your thoughts again
I would love to hear your thoughts on my articles.
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Julius, I’ve been leaving comments and noticing they haven’t been appearing right away. I wonder if they’re all getting marked as spam. I’ll do my best to stop by and re-submit the comment.
I left it again…… luckily I had copied and pasted it in notepad
Hey Moon,
You’ve done a great review, and I like the fact you’ve done if from an average user point of view.
I’ve never used this software however, so hearing this is good. I think you should do another review at some stage in the future to see how successful it may have been?
I’m currently using the IMAutomator that Alex suggests. I’ve tried it on a few articles over two blogs, so I’ll see how that goes.
Cheers
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Mark, thanks! I will do another update of Bookmarking Demon, esp. with the updated software, since it might actually make an impact. What exactly does IMAutomator do? Is it pretty tedious?
IMAutomator is another bookmarking tool. Alex recommends it for niche sites, or generally building backlinks. As far as time required – after logging in, you submit an article by pasting in the URL to your post. THere is a button to extract the keywords and description. Then you categorise the post, and submit.
They recommend you set up your submission rate as 1 link per day. So it’s not always the quickest way, but it gets your some backlinks which will help in the long run towards your PR etc.
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I am doing Bookmarking bulky , But Still I am very disappointed , i still have a discussion with many person to take bookmarking .. They Says Bookmarking just wastage of time
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Thanks for your honest review Moon – been in the market to pick up a bookmarking software because I have a few projects that could really use the backlinks.
Overall I’m still a little hesitant on my decision but I believe this weekend I’ll be making my choice. Maybe in the spirit of comparison I could pick up one of the other major ones so we could compare results – would benefit the rest of the community
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Now that’s an idea, Murlu. It’s my honest perspective–you never know though, I still have to give it another test run (after the update).
Hi Moon,
Thanks for the review. I too is using BookmarkingDemon 5.5.2.2 a couple of months now and I keep on noticing a pretty amount of failed submissions. Been looking around the net and finally found answer on this blog post of yours.
Anyway, thanks a lot mate.
P.S. I found Demon the best bookmarking tool out there.
Cheers,
Dave
Dvae, Bookmarking Demon is good for some things (like saving all the account details). Bookmarking submission can get frustrating after a while because you start noticing the failed submissions.
I think BookMarking Demon is a great product, though there are more competitors on the market than there once were.
To get more out of BMD, it really helps if you load up additional Scuttle, Pligg and PHP Dugg sites, you can get a lot more links that way.
I see you say you have only used one bookmarking tool, you neednt worry, you made the right choice with it!
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Jez–yes, I hear BMD is the best one of the bunch, so that’s probably saying something. It’s just that…. why not pay someone $10-$15 and get a nice amount of bookmarking links? Avoid the hassle, frustration etc.
Thank you for the review. I have been looking into BMD for a few weeks and cant decide on it. At the moment i am doing manual submissions but it a lot of work to get only a few links many of which never seem to show.
Do you know if BMD works for mac?
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Andy, obviously I’m not too crazy about BMD. I don’t know if BMD will work on a mac but you can ask here: http://support.edwinsoft.com/