Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Easy Link Building 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.

Here are some of the benefits of using a social bookmarking tool like Bookmarking Demon:

Highly targeted backlinks - Each keyword you submit to a social bookmarking site creates its own page. So multiply the number of keywords, by the number of sites you submit to and that's how many backlinks you'll be getting.

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.

Higher search engine rankings - The majority of the social bookmarking sites that Bookmarking Demon currently supports have dofollow links. These sites are have a PageRank ranging from 4 to 8 and the more of these high quality, one-way backlinks you have, the higher your site will rank in the search engine listings for your terms.

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.

To reduce the chances of getting dinged for duplicate content, Bookmarking Demon 4 introduces a new syntax for bookmarking titles and descriptions. Now you can include text like: Macbooks are great laptops and Bookmarking Demon will randomly choose one of those 3 words to include when bookmarking to a particular 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.

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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