After dismissing bookmarking demon for over a year because it never had any trial while carrying a high price tag of $147 I was enlightened to the power of social bookmarking a few months ago.
I saw really good results very quickly (within a week) on my older domains so while waiting to see if these rankings would drop or stay I also tested it on newer websites (including the link back) with great results. Once you have your bookmarking sites setup with accounts and categories it becomes SOOO easy to use this tool for an easy boost instead of having to create 300-400 word articles with titles and special spin syntax and then add your links in the text (for AR) or in a resource box (using AMR). I currently have ~1900 bookmarking sites so it takes a while for the initial setup however, as a bookmarking demon bonus for those who use a link to BMD from this page, I’m sharing my list of 1,500+ bookmarking sites and you will get the categories already setup for the majority of those, saving you a LOT of time.
As part of this review I will be offering a bookmarking demon bonus that includes a large list of sites. Also, after contacting the owner he offered a $20 discount for the readers of this blog that will be available from November & December 2011. Here’s a quick preview of how many social bookmarking sites it can successfully bookmark with my current list (actual ranking results are lower in the post):
How does it work?
The basic steps are below, and under I put a video I uploaded if you want some visual insight into bookmarking demon 🙂
1. Set up an email account to confirm emails.
2. Select all the bookmarking sites that you want to create accounts for (you will not have to redo this step later on, but I recommend you have 2-4 accounts made per site over time so that your bookmarks are distributed between each of them)
3. Select categories for these sites, This is the most time consuming one time only process, you will have to select categories for bookmarking submissions that many sites require in order to let you bookmark. Make sure to use the “set default category” option so that a large number of them will be assigned categories by BMD and saving you a lot of time :).
3. Add 1/many webpages you want to bookmark, for title put the keywords you want to rank for and separate them with a comma or use normal spin syntax { | }. For description make a 30-50 word description with { | } spin syntax, BMD supports multiple levels of spin syntax so I often do that for the description.
4. Bookmark! Many will fail so I usually run it again the next day on the failed sites that will stay in the Queue.
Here’s a video of bookmarking demon being setup if you want to have an idea of the above steps:
What kind of ranking results can you expect from using BMD?
In the past I would often do reviews and share my results but without actually showing ranking #’s so from now on (starting with this bookmarking demon review) I hope to always be able to show you screenshots of the actual rank tracking
As you can see from these first results, BMD has been helpful in bringing pages from nowhere to the second and third page of Google with ONE submission to all the sites. These were 2 keywords on the same site on a post that existed for a few months now but I never did backlinks to previously. It was the optimal candidate when I first started using BMD and over the months of testing elsewhere, the rankings have not dropped (something I was worried about). For this keyword no other backlinks were done besides the social bookmarking at the end of August.
Also I keep seeing great results with AMR so I decided to start doing some SEO on this website, I figured my article marketing robot review thread would be a good one to start promoting so I tried to rank it for article marketing robot review + article marketing robot bonus. However for these 2 keywords and only these two, I have been using other services starting around the ~25th of October. I was trying to see how fast and if I could reach #1 by shooting a ton of backlinks at this AMR review post as an experiment to see if I would experience Google dances and how easy/hard it would be to rank a blog that already has great traffic without SEO.
What about keywords that already have backlinks?
So my initial testing was on keywords that did not have backlinks built to them previously and were basically unranked. So I of course had to test some keywords that I previously used other backlink types (article directories/syndication services like AR) which enabled them to reach the second or third page of Google as is often the case after an initial run. These 2 keywords HAD backlinks built to them but none from me for at least 2-3 months before I did a BMD submissions for both.
I really really love bookmarking demon and I’m very mad at myself for not trying it earlier even if it did not have a trial. However, it does come with a 60 day moneyback guarantee (since it’s part of clickbank) so I would strongly encourage you guys to give it a try. BMD was first released in 2006 and is constantly being updated so you can expect it to keep being useful in the years to come. I use article directories so much and never considered social bookmarks for more then just an indexing tool to drive Google bot to your page/backlinks. For the results that are coming from doing a 30-50 word description and spinning it BMD is definitely a very worthwhile investment. As a score I would give bookmarking demon a 4 and a half stars, ya it will not give you all the #1 rankings you want but for a one time investment and a tool that once set up requires less work then article submissions I definitely highly recommend it as one of the top 3 tools I use for SEO every month (along with AMR and 1 random private blog network, I”ll be updating the list in “seo tools” soon)
Bookmarking Demon Bonus
For anyone that buys BMD from a link on this page (which redirect you to my $20 BMD discount page), email me (linkback[at]alexandertrifiro.com) with your receipt # and I will send you a .csv file that contains the (currently) ~1.5k or so extra bookmarking directories that I scrapped and sorted. This list will probably go down somewhat over time as I remove the ones that constantly waste me captchas or ban my accounts.
Bookmarking Demon Discount
After contacting the owner I was able to get a $20 BMD discount that should last until the end of 2011. You can get BMD for $127 currently instead of the usual $147 :). It does not have a trial but they do offer the standard Clickbank refund policy of 60 days if you are not satisfied with the product.
Quick update, I was told by those who have been using it that not only do you get my social bookmarking sites but also the categories! Saving you guys a lot of time on the initial setup (trust me, took me and my VA many hours…)
Here’s an affiliate link to buy bookmarking demon
For a non affiliate link go to www.bookmarkingdemon.com
I actually bought this awhile back (via alexs aff link…lol)
This tool is the shit. The end!
What do you think is the best way of using bookmarking demon?
To your money pages, or to your tiered links?
Did you use a private proxy?
While I often used bookmarking to tiered links to help them get indexed I only used BMD to see if it would help with directly increasing my money site’s rankings. I have no doubt it would help tiered links if I wanted to use it for that at this point but I was more interested if BMD was worth the cost since you can find a lot of low cost bookmarking tools if all you want is indexing.. The reason I wanted BMD was because it is very flexible and allows you to import a large list of site’s which is why it probably helps with money site rankings (and that it also supports big websites). I also like that it diversifies my backlink portfolio and adds some no follow links, something I am pretty sure is becoming key to dodge penalties.
Alex, your website is the shit. Although I know most of what you’ve wrote (by hours of forum reading/posting and trial/error) you put the information together in a very easy and comprehensive manor.
I’ve been thinking about getting BMD as it seems to be a very popular tool among IMers, but wasn’t sure if the results would justify the price. I think I’m going to get it.
I currently own AMR, TBS, and NHSEO as tools I use for aggressive automated backlinking. I might add BMD to complete my toolkit.
Lastly, I want to ask you what do you think about scrapebox?
Scrapebox is really useful for all the different functions it does. I personally do not use it for comment spam because I find that’s only useful to index backlinks and I would rather use backlink indexing services (takes me less time). I do use scrapebox for scrapping for things such as finding guest blogs, high PR links. Most importantly I use it to “check” my pingbacks to my blogs, to see if those backlinks are still active and contain links back to my website. Then I do a Google index check to these and send the non indexed ones to backlink indexing. For a one time fee that I paid a year ago, it definitely was worth it over time.
Ah, so basically you just use it as a mining tool and then as a way to help you keep track of the backlinks you want to index.
What service do you use for indexing backlinks?
Yup, I use mostly backlink indexing. Sometimes I try a few different ones but I get best results with that one and I just re-submit the url`s a few times every now and then to get as many indexed as I can.
Very nice review Alex 😉 I like this new style with rank tracking, looking forward to more reviews! And I will probably give the BMD a try
thanks 🙂
hey alex, can you tell me if bmd supports german character set? basically for some keywords i need ä ö ü and maybe ß. 😉
I doubt it would be a problem since I see foreign language sites in it but I can’t say for sure. Either way try it out and just ask for a refund if it does not work (but I’m 99% sure it will not be a problem).
cool, i might test it out in a bit 😉
Quick update, I was told by those who have been using it that not only do you get my social bookmarking sites but also the categories! Saving you guys a lot of time on the initial setup (trust me, took me and my VA many hours…)
Alex, how hard is the learning curve?
Thanks 🙂
The learning curve is overall quite simple. You might want ot look at the options a bit depending on how many bookmarks you want to run each time. Overall once it is setup it is simply choose the sites you want your bookmark to be sent to –> choose which “web page” you want to be bookmarked by the previously selected sites –> go to bookmarking tab and do “add my web pages to Queue”. The time consuming part was finding the sites & setting up categories but if you import the list I offer most of the sites come with the categories I set them up with.
Alex,
Would you say that its better to just use BMD instead of dealing with socialmonkee, socialadr etc. for social bookmarking? Do you know if those services use the same site as BMD?
Thanks!
The short answer is definitely. I never really tried socialmonkee. You are the actually the first one to bring it to my attention a few months ago, but as far as I see it… It’s simply an easy to use “boost my backlinks” tool or to help your site get indexed. Socialadr I tried using 6-12 months ago and it did not do much. Those sites and BMD probably have very similar sites but BMD definitely has way more sites once you start adding some yourself. It starts off with I think ~50 or so common high PR social bookmarking sites but you can include a lot of other ones.
Like I mentioned a few times I never had success with social bookmarking for rankings (yes they do help indexing and other minor things) until I tried it with BMD. I think it’s simply the large volume of sites BMD sends your site too. Another thing I like about it is that it diversifies my backlink portfolio (so not everything is article directories/private blog networks). It also adds a lot of no follow links, making things a bit more natural :).
Hi there – I sent an email a few days back with a copy of my receipt for BMD that I bought through your affiliate link. Can you send me the bonus list pls. Thanks. Nigel.
I reply to those within 24 hours.
I looked at my email box and yes I did receive your email and I had replied to it. I”ll resend the email. Since it contains an attachment maybe it goes to your spam box or whatever. Let me know if you get this one!
Have you guys tried out their new sofware, ultimate demon?
Thoughts?
If so, can you write a review?…
Thanks!
Nah, I probably won’t try it for a while too. I still haven’t seen all that much success with using SenukeX. However I probably would get that over SenukeX in the future if it has similar functionality due to the price difference and I really am used to BMD’s UI now!
Alex,
Thanks for the file! Do you ever mess with the rss feeds and ping server url’s for BMD?
I personally do not, but Alex T might…he is much smarter than me lol
:P. But I also do not, I never really cared that much about pinging with BMD because I saw good enough results without it. Over time it seems some of my accoutns are getting banned so I might try doing RSS feeds for more “legit” bookmarks in the future and see if that helps prevent accounts getting banned. To be honest though, what I like most about BMD is how quick it is to do backlinks for a URL so I hope I don’t have to use the other features too much in the future to keep it’s current excellent functionality..
Make a 1 or 2 20-50 word descriptions, spin them at word level (and then together if you make more then one).
Add web page information, select all social bookmarking sites and you are set!
Alex T,
For a site that is a couple months old, how many bookmarks would you be doing a day?week?
Do you blast your urls to ALL of the bookmarks at once?
Nah I was doing it at around 500 sites every few days for newer URL’s. Out of those 500 probably half or less will be successful. After 1-2 weeks I just do all the remaining ones and then delete the ones that still give errors (from the “to be bookmarked list”)
Bought BMD based on the awesome review by thelinkback and also received the list of bookmarking sites. Thanks guys saved me so much time….. One of my sites were stuck at the bottom of page 2 and now its floating near the bottom of page one…and I have only used the software for a few days now.
Anywayz I still have to sign up for the decaptcher account which I have not done so, I was having trouble receiving the email activation. I was using a hotmail account and also a gmail account I tried with aswell. Should this email activation problem be happening?
Thanks for the great value guys
No it really was not an issue for me, very odd… Thanks for the feedback 😀
Alex – Can you get the sale price of $127 back on again? I am ready to buy this finally, but would like to get the best deal possible 🙂 Thanks!
I will ask if it’s possible to get it back!