Tuesday, January 13, 2009

What's New With Bookmarking Demon 4.1

By Mike Wong

After a long development cycle, Bookmarking Demon 4.1 has finally been released. Edwin Brian, Bookmarking Demon's creator has completely rewritten the program from scratch and created a social bookmarking tool that is far superior to its predecessor. It has a completely revamped user interface and some great new features that make bookmarking your sites easy and safe.

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 - I bookmarked a several of my new sites with BookmarkingDemon and they were indexed by Google in 2-3 days on average. If you submit your site to Google manually, the process could take weeks!

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.

When you first open Bookmarking Demon 4.1, you'll right away notice the brand new user interface. Everything is more friendly looking and more functional than the previous version. There is also now a Beginner mode that hides a lot of the more advanced features in the interface which makes it better suited for new users. More advanced users will want to switch to expert mode to gain access to all the functionality that Bookmarking Demon has to offer.

Since you'll probably be submitting a page to multiple social bookmarking sites, Bookmarking Demon 4.1 introduces a new feature to help you avoid getting flagged for duplicate content. The new syntax for site descriptions and titles allows you to write something like: "Bookmarking Demon is an essential tool for internet marketers. Bookmarking Demon will detect this new syntax and randomly choose one of the two words to use when bookmarking to a specific site.

My favorite feature so far are the rss feeds. In the preferences, you can now add rss feeds from your favorite sites (like engadget or reddit) and Bookmarking Demon 4 will automatically submit items from your feeds along with your site. This lets you "hide" the site you are promoting and lessens the chances of you getting flagged by the bookmarking site for being a self promoter.

Another feature that I really like is the pinging function. New to Bookmarking Demon 4, after you've bookmarked your site, you can ping each of the social bookmarking sites and let the search engines know that there's newly updated content to be found. Instead of waiting several days for the search engines to find your new links, pinging your site tells them to come right away. This allows your sites to get indexed extremely fast.

Bookmarking Demon 4.1 is a great improvement over the previous version and a must have tool for any link building efforts. By using it on a regular basis, your sites will increase their search engine rankings for keywords that you are specifically targeting. Of course, you could do the same thing manually, but isn't your time worth money? Why not let Bookmarking Demon do all the hard work for you.

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