Social Bot VS Bookmarking Demon

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Looking into a program to automate social bookmarking...

Does anyone know what advantages Bookmarking Demon has over Social Bot (assuming it has any, im going off the higher price tag and much more detailed sales page)

from what i could tell bookmarking demon looks more automated, but socialbot looks like it has more directories it can do so im wondering if my impression about bookmarking demon being better is wrong

Thanks for any help
#bookmarking #bot #demon #social
  • Profile picture of the author jrsencio
    Good post.. looking for reviews and comparisons between these products too. I think what we should be looking for is software that..

    - can post at to random sites (not necessarily all that it has on its list)
    - use random pre registered user names
    - use different IPs
    - post to bookmarking sites when a blog post is published

    If anyone has bookmarking software that does those, I am first in line.
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  • Profile picture of the author SwissMarketer
    I would like to know too which bookmarking software or tools is the most efficent...

    any suggestions?
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    • Profile picture of the author Stephen Crooks
      Bookmarking demon, is an amazing piece of software that does everything and more that you will need from a social bookmarking type software. Edwin Brian is constantly updating it as well. I get the impression that it is a labour of love for him.
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      • Profile picture of the author adambeazley
        <my 2 cents>
        Im not familiar with social Bot, but I use bookmarking demon and I think it is a solid piece of software. What I really like the most is that the guy (cant remember his name) who made it is active and will rewrite the code as necessary to make it continue to work.

        He offers pretty frequent updates to make sure the software continues to circumvent the social sites.

        </end of my 2 cents>
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        • Profile picture of the author Bryan Zimmerman
          I've used Social Bot for a little while now and it's been good to me. The only problem I have run across with it is that it won't social book mark ezine article pages. No matter what url I put in it always bookmarks the home page. Other than that it works great. You can create multiple accounts and it runs through them pretty quick to about 130 different sites.
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          • Profile picture of the author sreid01
            Originally Posted by Bryan Zimmerman View Post

            I've used Social Bot for a little while now and it's been good to me. The only problem I have run across with it is that it won't social book mark ezine article pages. No matter what url I put in it always bookmarks the home page. Other than that it works great. You can create multiple accounts and it runs through them pretty quick to about 130 different sites.
            I am running into this same problem. Can you tell me how you got around this. I'm assuming you used another bookmarking service.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mifoxy
              Im looking for a wordpress plugin what does the same or even BETTER than auto social poster.
              Search google for auto social poster and see the limitations.

              If anyone is able to make such plugin, for unlimited blogs, unlimited posts and unencrypted code, then you're my man!
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              • Profile picture of the author MichaelB23
                I think BMD is the best, once you collect a bunch of scuttle and pligg sites, it's awesome.
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      • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
        Originally Posted by Steve Crooks View Post

        Bookmarking demon, is an amazing piece of software that does everything and more that you will need from a social bookmarking type software. Edwin Brian is constantly updating it as well. I get the impression that it is a labour of love for him.
        BD hands down. I love all of incansoft's products, so it isn't a slight against Big Mike, but BD is just so powerful. In addition, i'm pretty sure that social bot (I have it but only used a few times due to its limitations) has some limit on the amount of bookmarks you can put up per day.

        This is a real issue for those of that like to bookmark our bookmarks. I load up my profile backlinks at the end of the day (after boosting them with backlink booster), and I import them into BD to run automatically on the non-captcha sites.

        Tom
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        • Profile picture of the author halfpoint
          I just downloaded the latest of version of BMD and noticed that now require you to enter a category for every bookmark! So if you plan to submit 50 web pages to 50 sites they expect you to manually enter 250 category forms?!

          How have you gotten around this, Tom?
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          • Profile picture of the author ShaneRQR
            Originally Posted by Pat Jackson View Post

            I just downloaded the latest of version of BMD and noticed that now require you to enter a category for every bookmark! So if you plan to submit 50 web pages to 50 sites they expect you to manually enter 250 category forms?!

            How have you gotten around this, Tom?
            Yeah, that's incredibly inefficient about the current version.
            I hope the next update will fix this. I imagine it will, as in the past, things like this have been adressed quickly.
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            • Profile picture of the author halfpoint
              Originally Posted by ShaneRQR View Post

              Yeah, that's incredibly inefficient about the current version.
              I hope the next update will fix this. I imagine it will, as in the past, things like this have been adressed quickly.
              I've contacted the support girl, Jenny, about it. I'll most likely select the most generic category for each site and just leave it when it's fixed.

              If I had time to go through each site and manually choose categories I wouldn't need the tool in the first place.
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  • Profile picture of the author krishananda
    I haven't used any bookmarking software yet since I heard the auto thing is not good, can anyone confirm this?
    Still sticking to the good old manual submissions.

    Yet in this forum I saw many people use bookmarking software and now I'm a bit interested in the software.

    Be following this thread for sure.
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    • Profile picture of the author justifyleo
      I heard many people complain about being penalized for auto/spam social-bookmarking software, can anyone confirm this?
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      • Profile picture of the author tmauto
        I think such software programs are most useful if you can afford them. I have both socialbot and Bookmarking Demon and I think they are great in cutting down a lot of time for submission. BD has a new version which I'm still not too familiar with, but it has a great feature in that you don't have to create the accounts manually.

        I guess it is up to you to be careful not to spam.
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      • Automated tools like Bookmarking Demon are what they are - tools that make the job easier/quicker ... If you responsibly use the application and the social sites, you will not get banned ...

        My vote goes to Bookmarking Demon ... or if you can afford the monthly fee check out SENuke ...
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  • Profile picture of the author krishananda
    Just went to the bookmarkingdemon's site, I guess the owner said things right about the auto submission tool.

    If you be patient and submit your links no more than 2-4 a day, then the tool is safe to use, but if you bombard the social bookmarking sites with this tool - which can be easily done - then you can get penalized.
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  • Profile picture of the author jrsencio
    I believe a tool, just like any, is supposed to make your life better since the automation it provides can save you some time, time that you can use for other things. Abusing a tool is what gets you in trouble. All good things turn bad when abused.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bigsofty
    Can't say I'm impressed with BD at present, though it does manage to get some done.

    What isn't the software's fault but is a reason enough to steer clear is the lack of noticable traffic increase regardless of bookmarking.

    Then again I guess some must come down to how you word your descriptions etc. For me it's been a flop but I won't ask for a refund as it does what it says, albeit with a high failure rate. If you manually use the big important sites then it's an easy way of hitting a lot of the meaningless little ones that wouldn't be worth doing manually.

    I'm still waiting for the update for "pligg" sites, which may improve things.

    For me the real disappointment is the proxy server thing, ie the ability to use different IPs, which was a major reason I bought the thing. Then right there in the instructions it says that's not recommeded. ??

    I presume you can use proxy servers manually, have never tried, but rather liked the idea of the sw hopping from one to another. However it doesn't supply any, find any or recommend using any, so..


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    • Profile picture of the author koolphoto
      I have both Bookmarking Demon 4 and Social Bot 3. I think they are both good and they both work. Do I get a lot of traffic from them. No. I do get backlinks though. This is what I am looking for.

      I find I do better targeting the better Social Bookmarking sites. The top sites I do manually instead of using software because it seems that a backlink is more likely to happen.

      Both of these programs use a lot of scuttle sites. I don't think a lot of the scuttles will be around long. I have found that many tend to either fold or have bandwidth problems so the software ends up with not being able to submit to these sites.

      I just bought Social Bot 3 and was able to register to about 75 of the 120 sites it claims. I don't think it is the fault of the programmers. It is just that I am not sure the sites that it submits to will last a long time because they seem to be fly by night sites using the free scuttle or scuttle plus software. Social Bot also does submit to the major social bookmarking sites.

      But if you think about it after registering with the different sites, it is very easy to use and pretty fast to submit to 75 sites and maybe get 75 backlinks. I think it is worth the price, especially the WSO price.

      Bookmarking Demon is another program I like. I never used the earlier versions so I can't comment about them. Version 4 is nice. I like the account creation feature and it is basically a hands free software. The programmer has added a lot more sites over version 3. I think this is also worth the price.

      I would be careful using both programs in tandem without checking where they both submit to. Both submit to some of the same sites. You don't want to submit the same site at the same time because it could be construed as spamming.

      Even though you can go crazy with these programs, especially bookmarking demon, I would recommend you bookmark only in moderation. It is best to grow at a slow pace. You will keep your accounts active as long as you don't spam. Also, I tend to bookmark sites other then my sites so it looks more natural.
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      • Profile picture of the author veotis
        Originally Posted by koolphoto View Post

        I have both Bookmarking Demon 4 and Social Bot 3. I think they are both good and they both work. Do I get a lot of traffic from them. No. I do get backlinks though. This is what I am looking for.
        You say you don't get a lot of traffic from using the software(s), but you get a lot of links. Isn't getting the links going to pay off in traffic in the long run due to your site or blog ranking higher in the search engines? Is that what you're after? I ask this because you said this as though you don't care about traffic. Just curious...
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      • Profile picture of the author robertstr
        Originally Posted by koolphoto View Post

        I have both Bookmarking Demon 4 and Social Bot 3. I think they are both good and they both work. Do I get a lot of traffic from them. No. I do get backlinks though. This is what I am looking for.

        I find I do better targeting the better Social Bookmarking sites. The top sites I do manually instead of using software because it seems that a backlink is more likely to happen.

        Both of these programs use a lot of scuttle sites. I don't think a lot of the scuttles will be around long. I have found that many tend to either fold or have bandwidth problems so the software ends up with not being able to submit to these sites.

        I just bought Social Bot 3 and was able to register to about 75 of the 120 sites it claims. I don't think it is the fault of the programmers. It is just that I am not sure the sites that it submits to will last a long time because they seem to be fly by night sites using the free scuttle or scuttle plus software. Social Bot also does submit to the major social bookmarking sites.

        But if you think about it after registering with the different sites, it is very easy to use and pretty fast to submit to 75 sites and maybe get 75 backlinks. I think it is worth the price, especially the WSO price.

        Bookmarking Demon is another program I like. I never used the earlier versions so I can't comment about them. Version 4 is nice. I like the account creation feature and it is basically a hands free software. The programmer has added a lot more sites over version 3. I think this is also worth the price.

        I would be careful using both programs in tandem without checking where they both submit to. Both submit to some of the same sites. You don't want to submit the same site at the same time because it could be construed as spamming.

        Even though you can go crazy with these programs, especially bookmarking demon, I would recommend you bookmark only in moderation. It is best to grow at a slow pace. You will keep your accounts active as long as you don't spam. Also, I tend to bookmark sites other then my sites so it looks more natural.
        Great information! I totally agree with you. Social Bot VS Bookmarking Demon are the time saving tools to create unlimited tons of blogs in just seconds!
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      • Profile picture of the author pixelcrafter
        Dear Koolphoto,

        Kindly tell me how you use BMD to get a lot of traffic,
        since I have using it for 20 days and got no traffic from it.

        Thanks
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        Originally Posted by koolphoto View Post

        I have both Bookmarking Demon 4 and Social Bot 3. I think they are both good and they both work. Do I get a lot of traffic from them. No. I do get backlinks though. This is what I am looking for.

        I find I do better targeting the better Social Bookmarking sites. The top sites I do manually instead of using software because it seems that a backlink is more likely to happen.
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  • Profile picture of the author wizlor
    The problem with socialbot is they don't update those scuttle site regularly. Therefore, a lot of those in the list are not working and you cannot edit or add new sites
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    What I would really love to know is if it's able to Submit to sites that have captchas such as Digg? Are they really able to get around them or you have type it as the submissions are going on?
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  • Profile picture of the author webguru
    I prefer bookmarking my links manually, it takes a few minutes but always got good results with it. Automated tools never able bookmark on all of the sites they claim, and it looks spammy to bookmarking sites if you overuse the software.
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  • Profile picture of the author krishananda
    Best way for me is still manual social bookmarking, I can decide all the bookmarking sites that I need, change them every time, vote for the links, interact with other members (real members), etc.

    People often forget that Social bookmarking sites are social, some sites appreciate if you interact with other members like stumbleupon or propeller.
    There are also groups that you can join, join the relevant groups and get your links noticeable by even larger audience.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steadyon
      Hi guys,

      How do these compare to www dot socialmarker dot com ?

      I don't bookmark very often, perhaps a few times a month.

      I do like it from the point of view of getting some links. But is does take quite a lot of time, even using www dot socialmarker dot com

      Will either of the two software choices mentioned in this thread improve this situation?

      Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author worldnet
        What are some of the better practices of social bookmarking, I am new into this area but from what I have read, its best to go slow, dont bookmark everything on your site but only the truly valuable content and bookmark other sites, too.

        Anymore?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bigsofty
    "Also, I tend to bookmark sites other then my sites so it looks more natural."

    I haven't figured out how to do this yet with BD, at least not without sending my original links again...



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    • Profile picture of the author Pufferf1sh
      Originally Posted by Bigsofty View Post

      "Also, I tend to bookmark sites other then my sites so it looks more natural."

      I haven't figured out how to do this yet with BD, at least not without sending my original links again...



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      I think Bookmarking demon does this by also bookmarking one or two other sites selected using RSS feeds...
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Matthew
    Bookmarking Demon is great and the updates and support are amazing!

    Been using it since beta...it really is a great product.
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    • Profile picture of the author jcaviani
      I have used both programs and they both work. Here's the reality, however. NONE of these sites want or encourage automated posting or account creation. Can you do it? Sure you can, but in doing so, you will always be facing the same battle - constant updates needed due to frequent site changes. Also, as sites become more popular and prone to abuse, you'll find an ever increasing number of catpchas to prevent automated account creation. If these sites really wanted automation, they would provide an API.

      With that in mind, support becomes the major issue you need to examine. Bookmarking Demon has been around for a couple of years and has been updated religiously. I'm not sure about SocialBot.
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      • Profile picture of the author voiceofreason
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        I use Social Bot, and it's ok. Nothing to brag about primarily because the sites it automates posting to, are no-name sites that carry little weight. When I purchased, I was told that they had a huge update coming up in December to take care of this, and I never heard another peep, even with several emails and inquiries.

        Don't get me wrong, the software is easy to use and does save a bunch of time. But then, not sure how much time it's really saving seeing as how save a small handful of sites, none of these SB's are sites I'd bother posting to anyhow.

        I've heard a poster here and there claiming they've seen great ranking improvements with Social Bot, bot after a dedicated posting regime for 7 of my sites and boatloads of content, none have really budged or show on the SE's. I get more milage out of manual commenting and linking, and will likely stop using it altogether.

        In retrospect I definitely would not purchase Social Bot again. With that said, I am a fan of their new RSS automating tool. Uses the same simple interface, and saved me a lot of work.

        I cannot comment on BMD as I've never used it. If I purchase an automation tool again, I'll be more careful to make sure I purchase something that posts to decent sites.
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    i am using demon ever since ita launch and its effective as the words speak
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    • Profile picture of the author Gregg Hall
      The new version of Bookmarking Demon does semi-automated account creation. SE Nuke not only automates the account creation, but will also automatically open the email and click the confirm links!

      I actually use SE Nuke, Bookmarking Demon, Auto Social Poster for Wordpress, and a couple of Howie Schwartz's private tools. They will all work well as long as you aren't stupid about it. Just like TE, it still works if you don't try to create 10,000 pages in a night!

      Hope that helps,

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      • Profile picture of the author thbart
        Gregg,

        Can you expound on your experiences with SE Nuke? I am wondering if it is worth a subscription fee instead of outright purchase of similar software.

        Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author RockStarMarketing
        Originally Posted by Gregg Hall View Post

        The new version of Bookmarking Demon does semi-automated account creation. SE Nuke not only automates the account creation, but will also automatically open the email and click the confirm links!

        I actually use SE Nuke, Bookmarking Demon, Auto Social Poster for Wordpress, and a couple of Howie Schwartz's private tools. They will all work well as long as you aren't stupid about it. Just like TE, it still works if you don't try to create 10,000 pages in a night!

        Hope that helps,

        Gregg

        P.S. Hi Vito, LONG TIME!!!
        hi Greg -

        Just curious what you're using of Howie's? I've been with him since CD and am looking into a few of his products now.

        Any advice / reviews of his stuff would be a HUGE help!

        Thanks!

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  • Profile picture of the author shorwood
    I have just started bookmarking, and I am doing it manually. I tried automated bookmarking over the past week, but I have gotten zero traffic and zero backlinks for my efforts, so I am trying it manually now to see if I get better results.
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    • Profile picture of the author tmauto
      Senuke is good and I use it almost everyday. Only thing is the monthly sub is rather high.

      I also use Bookmarking Demon and if you are using for social bookmarking it's just as good.
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  • Profile picture of the author trishworks4u
    I have both BMD and Socialbot. I prefer BMD, just more features and more sites. It also has the account creation feature.

    Not to mention that I created a whole other set of accounts for Socialbot and logged back in a few days later to find that they had all disappeared.
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  • Profile picture of the author ebizstrategies
    Hey all, there is a THIRD option that I feel due to the diversity, it superior to BMD (which I have 4.0) Have not used social bot.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rita012
      I'd go with a 3rd option, and say socialmediascience.com . It's a community that works together to help with social buzz. I've been in it for about 2 months, and the results are amazing.
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    What other tools do you use for automatic link building programs?
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  • Profile picture of the author Diane S
    The support at Bookmarking Demon is great, that has been very helpful. Quick responses on all support tickets. Bookmarking Demon allows you to add all the extra scuttle, scuttle plus and pligg sites you can find! That is one of the best features about Bookmarking Demon 4. Buy BMD4 now and get free lifetime upgrades. BMD5 is already in the works...not sure what the new price will be.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrdomains
    Social Bot i Cr@p if you ask me. Program from 2006 that is as anti-user fiendly, anti-logical and as anti-vista as they come. Interface architecture is pre- 2005 with non-editable lists once they are created. If you don´t have the manual forget it. And even if you have it, forget it.

    Functionality is very So-So. If you want it, there is a campaign ongoing and it IS cheap but after wasting half a day with it, i will not be using mine.

    Try Socialmarker and Onlywire No drip feed automation but at least they bookmark at muiltiple sites. Wondering why noone creates an alternative to senuke at a more comfortable price - would sell by the bucketloads.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ludovic
      Originally Posted by mrdomains View Post

      Social Bot i Cr@p if you ask me. Program from 2006 that is as anti-user fiendly, anti-logical and as anti-vista as they come. Interface architecture is pre- 2005 with non-editable lists once they are created. If you don´t have the manual forget it. And even if you have it, forget it.

      Functionality is very So-So. If you want it, there is a campaign ongoing and it IS cheap but after wasting half a day with it, i will not be using mine.

      Try Socialmarker and Onlywire No drip feed automation but at least they bookmark at muiltiple sites. Wondering why noone creates an alternative to senuke at a more comfortable price - would sell by the bucketloads.
      I agree with you totally on this!
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      • Profile picture of the author lewisrl205
        I've used only wire and dont have any complaints
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    • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
      Originally Posted by mrdomains View Post

      Social Bot i Cr@p if you ask me. Program from 2006 that is as anti-user fiendly, anti-logical and as anti-vista as they come.
      WinVista here and no problem whatsoever. In fact, the software just got updated AGAIN and works perfectly. Been using for a month and it's a no brainer.
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      • Profile picture of the author cloakmaster
        I wish BMD would integrate the captcha services out there, but edwin says he has no plans for integrating anything like that ever. sucks
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        • Profile picture of the author cybernac
          I have tried both and gave up on BMD after a week. The scuttle sites were too hard for me to find. I absolutely love Social Bot. It includes all the popular ones and makes it easy to sign up too.
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  • Profile picture of the author p.prince3345
    Social bot is great...no real problems for me. I don't know much about bookmarking demon though
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    • Profile picture of the author ingoodcause
      Originally Posted by p.prince3345 View Post

      Social bot is great...no real problems for me. I don't know much about bookmarking demon though

      Hi Prince, I have just bought Social Bot.

      Would be glad to know the best practices of using Social Bot. thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author blue_sky
        I own BMD (as already posted in a different thread) got it for a really low introduction price - one of the few tools I continue to use....

        You can add your own sites (I have 1000 or so in the database)
        Captcher solving (BMD is running right now in the background)
        support is very quick (I needed the support yesterday for the first time ever)
        they try to improve the tool always (I wish though they had a kind of automatic update feature like the incan bots)

        If you want a real tool go for BMD if you dont want to invest that much money go for Socialbot and wet your toes a bit...
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        • Profile picture of the author blue_sky
          Originally Posted by blue_sky View Post

          I highly do not suggest bookmarking demon, as i own it I personally find it ineffective, maybe I'm doing something wrong i don't know, but I find it a waste
          how come? You wont get a nr 1 ranking with BMD if this is what you are after and you need more sites in the database which can be easily done...

          a negative statement like this about socialbot and the whole greek-southamerica-connection would jump on me LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author ezeey
    I highly do not suggest bookmarking demon, as i own it I personally find it ineffective, maybe I'm doing something wrong i don't know, but I find it a waste
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    • Profile picture of the author pixelcrafter
      So, how do you do your bookmarking ?

      Do you manually bookmark your site ? or using other software ?

      Any recomendation ?

      Originally Posted by ezeey View Post

      I highly do not suggest bookmarking demon, as i own it I personally find it ineffective, maybe I'm doing something wrong i don't know, but I find it a waste
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      • Profile picture of the author outsourcetoday
        Any one know of any specials or WSO offers for Bookmarkingdemon ?Would appreciate it if anyone shared it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
          Originally Posted by outsourcetoday View Post

          Any one know of any specials or WSO offers for Bookmarkingdemon ?Would appreciate it if anyone shared it.
          You do realize that BD is sold through clickbank, don't you? You don't exactly need a coupon.
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        • Profile picture of the author koolphoto
          I was reading a lot of the posts here and I don't think some people know what software can do for them.

          Software tools are no better or worse then the people using them. They are really not magic bullets. If you don't know how to do something manually, software won't help you any better.

          If you know how to bookmark manually and are successful at it then the software will make you life more convenient.

          I still use both programs. I am successful with both programs. Sometimes, I do certain things manually. Sometimes, I use the programs. It all depends on my objective at the time.

          And, I learned all about bookmarking on this forum. Search. Read. Learn. Experiment. Everything is here.

          If you want to use the programs to spam because you think it will be faster for you and you will get an enormous amount of links then, go for it. Will that technique work? In most cases no.

          Learn to bookmark manually first. Become good at it and then you will appreciate the power of software tools.

          Sndas, if you used BMD for a month and are not on any of the top 10 pages, then my question to you is if you bookmark manually will you be on any of the top 10 pages in a month. Probably not.

          What do you do to get your bookmarks found? Do you have good anchor text? Do you submit rss feeds? Do you backlink the bookmarks? These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself. I don't think bookmarking by itself will get you to the top 10 pages especially within a month unless you have found the easiest long tail keywords with little or no competition. Then, maybe.

          And, this also applies to any software tools you use. Know how to manually find keywords before you use software. Know how to manually submit rss feeds before you use software. Then, your software will be much more powerful and useful to you.
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      • Profile picture of the author guitarpw
        I am using bookmarking demon almost everyday to post about 20 urls a mix of my main urls as well as other related urls.

        Previously, I got too greedy and tried to post 100's of bookmarks in 1-2 days and the accounts got removed at the bookmarking sites. End up wasting more time in making more accounts. I highly reccomend not to do it the way i did

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        Anyways, I've got my copy of the software at the link that was previously post on this thread. That website offers some good bonuses...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jimbeam
    BMD easy, however you could also go with something like SE Nuke as it covers other web2 link building stuff, but BMD is good value for money.
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  • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
    Guys, don't know how BMD works, I only have been using Social Bot and SENuke, for a while.

    SENuke is what it is... expensive monthly fee... for the same amount of money I'd rather use manual bookmarking with VA's from India, etc...

    Social Bot, at it's price especially, is a handy tool that does only what it says it does.
    It's not a miracle! It's a tool.

    I have separated my sites into different categories:
    Captcha's and non-Captcha's
    I start bookmarking on the first ones... it takes abt 5 mins?
    Then I let the software work on auto-pilot for the other ones.
    BTW, you CAN add scuttle sites in SB if you want to.

    It is not intended to bring you traffic directly. That is simply not what social bookmarking does, if used this way.
    If you're a member of a group on say... Digg, Stumbleupon, etc...
    and kindly ask your friends to help your link by voting, digging, etc... you will notice some traffic while it lasts (usually a few hours-days, depending on how hot your topic is)

    The real traffic comes from good SERP's derived from good on-page and off-page SEO.
    Carefully research the market/niche.
    Choose some good not so competitive KW's and try to rank well for those.

    If you do it this way, bookmarking (either manually, or with softwares like SB or any other, as a matter of fact) will help getting backlinks.
    These will carry with them more or less juice (PR) according to the sites they come from.
    Sometimes, fewer more powerful links weigh FAR more than hundredths ones from un-noticeable sites...

    In any case, I was able to rank high for my KW's whenever I did my research right previous to the bookmarkings.

    One thing though... I use Social Bot only once per day and bookmark only one of my own links, plus a few of my friend's...
    I do this as a sort of bookmarking swap.

    If any of you are interested... PM me.

    In the end... for it's price I'd say Social Bot is a bargain, really!

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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Smale
    Have you tried SocialMarker.com? it's free and does everything you could need from a bookmarking tool.

    I've used it for a while and highly recommend it.
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  • Profile picture of the author robofx
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    I always get a kick out of the example often used for why sudden large numbers of backlinks won't result in a Google penalty: Drudge's breaking of the big Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.

    Look Ma: millions of sudden backlinks, no Google penalty!

    What the story-retellers leave out (and probably don't even know) is that Drudge broke the story on January 17, 1998.

    Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998. LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author foxy_roxy
    Using Bookmarking software as part of a wider SEO strategy to boost SERPs IMHO is better than a sudden [and unnatural looking] boost of traffic.

    Someone said "With great power comes great responsibility", Having access to powerful tools means one may have to exercise the power responsibly and gently so long term success is guaranteed.........

    Existing users of BMD and Socialbot:

    What are the pros and cons of BMD and Socialbot?

    Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author pavionjsl
    I love the penalty thing with millions of bookmarks. Anyone one remember the baby commercials when they were all roller skating? Guess how many backlinks that video site got in a week...........millions!
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    • Profile picture of the author adorton
      I recently bought BMD and selectively BM'd my pages, only BM'ing a couple of high pr sites per day with choice keywords. Guess what happened? Google BM'ed me from page 1 to page 2. Mind you 2-3 backlinks a day shouldn't register with Big Brother Google whatsoever but never the less my page dropped for my keywords. Needless to say I have requested my refund and will move on.

      All the automation in the world means exactly Jack Crap if it doesn't produce results.

      Manual BM'ing is the only way to go.

      (he said bm) he he
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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        Originally Posted by adorton View Post

        I recently bought BMD and selectively BM'd my pages, only BM'ing a couple of high pr sites per day with choice keywords. Guess what happened? Google BM'ed me from page 1 to page 2. Mind you 2-3 backlinks a day shouldn't register with Big Brother Google whatsoever but never the less my page dropped for my keywords. Needless to say I have requested my refund and will move on.

        All the automation in the world means exactly Jack Crap if it doesn't produce results.

        Manual BM'ing is the only way to go.

        (he said bm) he he
        I tried onlywire...just bookmarked once a day, varied sites and found my Keywords dropped a lot in google....so not sure about social bookmarking.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kael41
      I have no idea how long you've been doing seo, but your advice is soooo off the mark it's really bad. There is absolutely nothing wrong with automatic bookmarking software when used responsibly...at all. Automation means efficiency, and if you can automate a process to submit, you can automate a process to verify.

      David
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      I don't think that any kind of automatic Bookmarking software is good for SEO. This is totally rabbis. Many of sites missing from proper submission. Also can't verify how links are going. Manual submission is always helpful for growing better traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pufferf1sh
    Okay... as I'm writing this my antiquated laptop is painstakingly downloading Bookmarking Demon 5, meanwhile some overly-worked computer chip in my bank's server is religiously processing my Paypal payment of the princely some of $147... The download has (at an audacious speed of 11.1 KBS..) a tantalising 8 minutes and 47 seconds to go...

    Any last minute Social Bot bombardiers out there to jump to the rescue??
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    • Profile picture of the author JHenry
      My $.02:

      Bookmarking Demon was an atrocious experience for me. I wanted to like it, I wanted it to work... but in the end, it was just a piece of bloatware.

      Socialbot 4 is a great tool. Can't beat the price either.

      I also use Howie Schwartz's bookmarking generation tool. It's part of his black hat labs tools. $1000/yr. Well worth it... you can see a comparison of the tools at the second link above.

      Finally, I also use Auto Social Poster. 100,000 posts = $199.00. Best feature is the randomization.

      Let me break this down further:
      1.) Steer clear of Bookmarking Demon, imho.
      2.) If you can't afford Howie's tool or ASP, SocialBot is your best bet.
      3.) Howie's tool and ASP use randomization and drip feed posting making them the obvious winners.

      One last tip: Don't forget the camouflage aspect of any bookmarking campaign. For example, don't just bookmark your money site or your landing page, but bookmark other sites related to your $ page and landing pages. If youre promoting "arizona straw bale house blueprints" then bookmark pages related to life in the desert, flickr pages of cactii, native american myths, etc. This ensures your bookmarking personas/accounts don't get tagged as spam. It'll look natural... and that's what we want right? You'll get established and mature bookmarking accounts so that when you do decide to run a CPA/PPC/PPV campaign you can bookmark it with established accounts and know those links will stick.

      To your success!

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  • Profile picture of the author Travel Planner
    BMD is heard to be good but i see no discount on the forum so that we could try out this software.

    Certainly if BMD gave a discount coupon fresh purchases might go in there.

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author max922
    Bookmarking Demon is best but I prefer Manually Submission of Bookmarks ..
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  • Profile picture of the author PhilipK
    I vote totally for Bookmarking Daemon. I didn't buy it yet, but will do soon. I watched all the videos and it looks pretty nice. Everything included and even camouflage techniques with RSS which is really smart, so you don't have to waste time to find relative posts to camouflage your promotion.

    I didn't see the Howie's option, but $1000 a year, please. It's little too much. And I didn't get what is better with Howie's software than BMD.
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  • Profile picture of the author DFM
    My vote goes for BMD u can add more sites and it is constantly updating and if u want have 50% discount ask me how
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  • Profile picture of the author JagSEO
    Bookmarking software is great if you can afford it. But I still believe in personal touch where you can submit manually but as they said it takes a lot of time but I think it is worth it. I'm nothing against social bookmarking software because it makes your life easier but I still believe in manual labor and hard work eventhough I am lazy.
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  • Profile picture of the author cyberws
    I really LOVED Demon - but then it quit working after about three weeks, which was disappointing. At first it started with my memberships - I had to reload them every time I opened up the software. Then it wouldn't post my entries on social sites. I learned to copy everything into a text file and reload the software every time I opened it. Finally it wouldn't work at all. I would click Submit - and in a few seconds it would indicate that it was finished ... but nothing was posted. Too bad. The developer has had at least one update since I quit using it, though, so maybe it's improved.
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  • Profile picture of the author bodymindsuccess
    Personally I have really benefited from BMD, the only challenge I've had from time to time is that it freezes up and I have to start it over.

    I was curious as to how it compares to Social Bot...but not curious enough to buy it. It seems it would be overkill.
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by bodymindsuccess View Post

      Personally I have really benefited from BMD, the only challenge I've had from time to time is that it freezes up and I have to start it over.

      I was curious as to how it compares to Social Bot...but not curious enough to buy it. It seems it would be overkill.
      In terms of pricing... I'd say Social Bot is rather inexpensive, don't you think?

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  • Profile picture of the author Janet Walker
    One thing to ALWAYS look for: Money back guarantee. If a product does not offer your money back after you buy the product then you know something is not right.

    I like to buy products from clickbank if possible because of the 60 days you have to try the product out. The money back guarantee should tell which product to buy.
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  • There isn't any easy solution to social bookmarking.

    People who are complaining about not getting any traffic after using BD...maybe your websites aren't what people want to see? If you don't have an a good looking or interesting site, of course you won't get any good traffic. That's not the softwares fault.

    Also if your backlinks aren't being indexed by Google or the other search engines, you won't see any improvements on your link quantity and therefore, no improvements in traffic.

    You need to make sure the pages you are submitting your links to are being pinged. I believe SEO Nuke does this but I can't justify the high subscription fee. For that kind of money, you could just hire an outsourcer to do all this work manually which if you find the right person (and I emphasize the word if), is a much better option.

    Problem with us all is we look for the easy solution to all these time consuming tasks involved with SEO and marketing, and then become disillusioned when these solutions don't produce the results we expect. I believe some of these software solutions over promise to draw in customers which is a shame.

    Bottom line is... all this works takes time. You can either do it yourself or pay someone else to do it for you. Catch 22.
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  • Profile picture of the author stabilo66
    Can someone please post a fresh, usable list for BDM? I only have 8 sites on it.

    Many thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author tzvika770
    the new socialbot 4.3 is great over 1000 sites build in.
    great one price.
    fully automated except the capcha but not to many social web2 sites use this feature so its very fast.
    i use this software to make my back-links stronger
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    • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
      Originally Posted by tzvika770 View Post

      the new socialbot 4.3 is great over 1000 sites build in.
      great one price.
      fully automated except the capcha but not to many social web2 sites use this feature so its very fast.
      i use this software to make my back-links stronger
      I was kinda shocked when I saw 1000 sites, what are you doing in terms of signing up to each site? Do it yourself or out sourcing or even just using eg 50 or 100?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad01Stanton
    Well I got sucked into the Easter sale and bought SocialBot - waste of money. The automation it provides is minimal, I have spent more time trying to coax it to work than simply going to the sites myself and creating the link manually. I have checked the links it claimed to create and they wern't added. All in all a waste of time, I would ask for a refund - but guess what, they dont offer refunds -
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    • Profile picture of the author Warrior Y
      I have to agree with Brad01Stanton.
      SocialBot is a waste of money. Don't know why there are people here saying good things about this program.
      After checking my submissions, most of them weren't even added and the account creation is just amateur - no solution for captcha and many of the fields that are supposed to be filled automatically are left empty.
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      • Profile picture of the author Blanket
        We've (my company) used Bookmarking Demon since day 1. Since then we now rank #1 in Google for hundreds of keywords over our various sites.

        I wouldn't use any other software to do bookmarking, BMD is simply too powerful.

        Google it, try it, buy it.

        You will not regret the decision.

        My 2 cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author aa411853
    Why is no one using Bookmark Wiz?
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    • Profile picture of the author nikmerchant
      hi,

      i would like to buy BMD next month, but you guys said that it have problems in sorting categories etc. Does the problem solved? Is it working fine right now?

      I just want to know whether my investment is not a waste.. thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Frankie B Frank
    I tried socialbot and am so far unimpressed - last time i buy software without a moneyback guarantee!

    I am no toying between Bookmarking Demon & Bookmarkwiz

    I'm not sure if one of the products has 100% of what I want...I like the "ping" on bookmarkwiz!

    - Upload list of urls & bookmark X urls per session (ideally using the meta data rather than having to manually ad) is one feature I think is missing.

    - regular updates as the social bookmarking sites are constantly changing & success rate drops without software updates

    Does anyone have a "comparison" for each of these products? Or success rate figures?

    thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author fabregas
      Social Bot really needs an update, I can't even see captchas when I'm trying to create accounts, so unfortunately I can't use it at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Bean
    Have you updated to SocialBot 4.3 ?

    It came out March 8 2010.... you should have received an email with a link to the update zip file.

    Works great for me on Vista

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  • Profile picture of the author gyl1989113
    good view this ,where can I purchase the BD?
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  • Profile picture of the author darman82
    i have both of the software, but i must say that BMD is better then Social Bot, as you know BMD more expensive then Social Bot that's why you get a better software then social bot.
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    • Profile picture of the author dotcomdesigns
      I use a lot of Big Mike's software and it's great apart from Social Bot. In fact I find using it a nightmare. In fact what I do now is just go to the big 5 sites and manually submit. As I only paid $7.77 for the product it's no big deal.
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  • Profile picture of the author CollectiveMind
    Bookmarking Demon 5.5.0.1 is stable version.
    It can run without crashing all night on 15 connections.
    During day time I am running on 40 connections.
    I have 30+ proxy IPs and 4000 + social bookmarking websites with many accounts each.
    Thousands bookmarks daily - no problem. What can be better ?
    However it has one big problem. Feeding it. It is monstor that require new links.
    You must have pretty good link building system to utilize BMD to full power.
    Profiles links,Web 2.0 properties,Press releases,forum posts,blog comments - all good for bookmarking.

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  • Profile picture of the author raphnexx
    i think BMD is very good.It is very effective in proctecting your ip address.
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  • Profile picture of the author sentient
    I'd love to be able to recommend SocialBot, but unfortunately cannot.

    I reported a technical problem on 22nd April and was told that an upgrade would solve it, and that would be received by the end of April.

    The upgrade never came, so I chased it on May 19th and was told that it would be released on 23rd May.

    The upgrade never came, so I chased it on May 26th, and was told that I would have it on 27th.

    The upgrade still hasn't come.

    It may be cheap software, but even cheap is too expensive for something that doesn't work and where the Support team can let a customer's technical problem carry on for over a month, keeping promising that the solution is coming but not actually delivering it.
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    • Profile picture of the author imintern
      SocailBot doesn't allow to spin (using Jetspinner Syntax) the Comments (not Description) which is a huge drawback.

      And if BIG Mike could make the software to store multiple accounts for each of the bookmarking sites and rotate them/pick them at random while submission, it would have been a great.

      Another problem is the formating of the tags (the Keywords field in SocialBot). I am not sure, but it doesn't seem that SocialBot formats the keywords before submitting. Some bookmarking sites require that you submit comma separated tags while some allow only space separated tags. And not only that, in case of space separated tags for multi words key phrases there are quire a few formatting options like multi-word-key-phrase or "multi word key phrase".

      There aren't any clear instructions regarding these issues. If he is following this thread I would like to request Big Mike to do something about these problems and make Social Bot a lot better software.

      P.S. And remove the sites that aren't functional now from the software, for example, Kaboom-it.
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  • Profile picture of the author BOWarrior
    This was a great thread to read. As an SEO professional of many years, the first answer is always manually. Life is best manual. Just like cooking food. You can microwave food, but is mostly better when manually cooked.

    Having said that, I will say that a few posters speak wisely when they suggest 'moderate" use of the tools. They are designed to make life easier, not replace you as a person.

    I have found that even with outsourcing bookmark links that do get created, they eventually slide off the map. So, when building links, it's better to focus on places: directories, bookmark sites, web pages that will last longer. Otherwise, you're just replacing dead ones later....
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    • Profile picture of the author Crew Chief
      Originally Posted by BOWarrior View Post

      This was a great thread to read. As an SEO professional of many years, the first answer is always manually. Life is best manual. Just like cooking food. You can microwave food, but is mostly better when manually cooked.

      Having said that, I will say that a few posters speak wisely when they suggest 'moderate" use of the tools. They are designed to make life easier, not replace you as a person.

      I have found that even with outsourcing bookmark links that do get created, they eventually slide off the map. So, when building links, it's better to focus on places: directories, bookmark sites, web pages that will last longer. Otherwise, you're just replacing dead ones later....
      BOWarrior, it amazes me that you are a "SEO professional of many years" who asserts that when it comes to building BLs, "the first answer is always manually"

      So please explain how a Professional Internet Marketer with forty-nine free standing websites, each with an average of 210 to 225 pages of content can manually build BLs to "ALL" of his web properties.

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      • Profile picture of the author Haroon Ballim
        Hi

        I notice that a few posts mention that no increased traffic was observed using either of the two products .. Can that really be true . Whats the purpose of bookmarking if its not going to generate traffic .

        Think the results probably are not immediate and more in the longer term . It will also depend on which sites you bookmark to . Look for higher page ranking and you can score with backlinks . One can create backlinks to thousands of sites , but if they are not high ranking you will not see a big change . Manually search for high ranking sites and create links on those that allow linking to them .

        You will get much better results linking to a few high ranking sites , than thousands of low ranking ones . So manual can beat automated if you have the time to do proper searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author Diane S
    Spiderhouse, Bookmarking Demon has a great ping function. After you bookmark, all the info is preloaded. You just select proxies to be used and hit the start ping button, then let it run in the background. Gotta love that!

    Edwin is constantly upgrading Bookmarking Demon, and nonworking sites are removed regularly.
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  • Profile picture of the author lvsniper
    Bookmarking demon is the way to go, social bot is cheaper.. but eventually you will want to go with BMD
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  • Profile picture of the author spradlig
    I've bought both Social Bot and Bookmarking Demon in 2010 (don't remember exactly when). I've also used Social Bookmarks Demon. Of the 3 I liked Social Bookmarks Demon the best. At least until recently... SBD is currently completely worthless as I get repeated license server errors that won't let me create accounts or post bookmarks. And SBD support has done nothing about it since August. They don't even answer my Tickets anymore. But that's off topic...

    Social Bot seemed like such a pain to use once I installed it. I like everything else I've bought from IncanSoft. It was cheap and I just gave up on it.

    I have some autoblogs that I wanted to test Bookmarking Demon out on. I found thousands of URLs in the sitemaps to bookmark. (I bookmark all the posts because if I were bookmarking for my own reference it would be to individual pages more often than the TLD.) Bookmarking Demon had almost all the features I wanted. However, the big drawback for me was that it was Windows software that required my manual input and then weeks of continuous running in the background.

    That said, I like these features about BD:
    *CAPTCHA solving
    *Proxy Use
    *Bookmarking Site Accounts Management
    *Automatically answered confirmation emails for me - but only for the sites it came with not sites I added
    *And it was multithreaded - there's a lot of junk out there that should be but isn't (one of my biggest gripes about SBD prior my current issues was its poor coding - lack of multithreading and keeping a MySQL connection open for 45 minutes while it posted bookmarks)

    However, I eventually chose SBD because it was web based. In other words I could run from my hosted servers. I could run it from any Linux box using TOR (free proxies that aren't always recognized as proxies). And I could run it using a CRON job in Linux so that new URLs were added constantly and new URLs were bookmarked constantly.

    For BD the fatal flaw was that it was Windows software that I couldn't set on autopilot and forget about it.

    Automated bookmarking has been good for a couple of my sites. However, it requires a lot of accounts - I was posting about 300 bookmarks a day using btwn 50-100 accounts with each bookmarking service. I figure an average of 6 bookmarks a day coming from different IPs was good enough to evade most suspicion.

    One note, I used SBD with several sites and only a couple benefitted from it. My conclusion was that I had picked the wrong keywords for the other sites - too competitive or not enough interest. I use Market Samurai for my keyword research and occasionally go back and revisit the keywords I've chosen on topics I think really should have been winners.

    Bookmarks can bring in some traffic but I found auto-posting to Twitter (before they required OAUTH) brought in a lot more traffic than Bookmarks.

    Finally, from an SEO standpoint I view bookmarks as short-lived but useful backlinks to the site. And as such they aren't worth much unless they can be automated (IMHO). In order to have longlasting staying power on the SERPs I usually do things like Directory submission, RSS Feed promotion, Article Marketing (just a handful of articles), and occasionally some of the Brute Force tools like EVOII or Social Poster.

    That's my 2 cents but I'm not exactly making a full time living from IM yet either.
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  • Profile picture of the author roadwarriorhawk
    I'm not knocking Incansoft products, but SocialBot you need to AVOID!

    I own it, and it doesn't work very well at all.

    The most annoying thing I find about is that the auto sign-up feature fails for virtually every single site (you get a couple of pligg sites that sign up ok, but thats it), and without checking manually you just can't be certain that your bookmarks have been added.

    I recently bought BMD5, and so far it's much easier to use and is clearly a superior program, even though I'm still trying to get used to everything it does.

    SocialBot is really cheap, but I feel there is actually a reason for that!

    BTW, once again, not a knock on Incansoft, I heard RSSBot is really good, but SocialBot...forget about it!
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    • Profile picture of the author Geoffrey Freedom
      BMD is a life saver! Try manually bookmarking a site with over 400 pages of content. I can't even count how many hours(if not days) have been saved with BMD.
      Only bad part is there is a bit of a learning curve but if you take the time to learn it will can be a powerful tool for bookmarking.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveSch
    I know this is about SB and BMD, but I saw someone mention BookmarkWiz (BW).

    I got a refund on BookmarkWiz several months ago.

    The company told me that BW was not designed to spam bookmarking sites. You enter one URL, and it gets bookmarked. And yes, you can manually check and you will find it.

    It has no provision to spider your site and submit all the pages.

    From what I remember the bookmark tags could only be one word. You could have site on red dog training. Your keywords would be 3 separate words, "red, dog, training". Now it has been several months and I could be mixing my products, but I believe this was one of my big pet peaves with the software.

    I used BW without proxies and got my IP banned with one of the sites. LOL My fault 100%.

    BW did work and was very easy to use. I will say that the success rate on account creation was not as good as I would have liked. I understand that none of these products will have 100% success rate.

    I have been debating on BMD for a while now. I probably should just pull the trigger and get it.

    And before someone suggests it. I own SocialBot. I have logged into the SB accounts manually and was unable to find the bookmarks. I did not check them all.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author enrikm
    Both are in a different league actually. Just look at the price difference.

    Used Social Bot before and it seems to do the job most of the times. I say most because there are some instances that it just hangs and you have to redo your bookmarking.

    Haven't tried BMD but with the rave reviews, I'm thinking it should be worth the price, considering it isn't monthly like the other products.
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  • Profile picture of the author JoeWunschSEO
    The main advantage : It works.

    Social Bot errors on more sites than it can submit to successfully, it is never updated, you can't add your own sites, etc

    You get what you pay for, Big Mikes software is very low quality compared to BMD, there is a reason you can get it for $7.95 on sale.
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  • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
    Another option is Magic Submitter.
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  • Profile picture of the author gregoryburrus
    Well I use them both and they both work well. Bookmarking Demon does so much more on automation, however you really have to reset everything every now and then and use CCleaner to make sure you have a clean slate.
    All these programs start off great and the the success rate drops dramatically. I just clean my machine with ccleaner and then the effectiveness goes back up.
    Clearly Bookmarking Demon is better oonce you start using it.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    I own Bookmarking Demon and I use to use all the time but I've found it's become less effective as alot of bookmarking sites are junk plus Google don't value backlinks from Bookmarking sites like they use to 5 years ago.

    ...At least it gets updated though.

    James Scholes
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    I bought SocialBot by Incansoft and it's garbage. I can't even get support for it. Waste of money. I am looking to add BMD to the arsenal, though.
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  • Profile picture of the author benbro
    I've used both and still use SBD. Tried Social Bot and just found it too clunky and hard to get around. Love SBD, particularly love the fact that you can:
    • Easily segment your bookmarking sites based on captcha codes
    • Use proxies
    • Ease of use
    • Add your own ping servers
    • Use captcha breakers

    Again I can't stress enough the overall ease of use of the program-barely had to read the instructions.

    Of course, there is the price issue to contend with. At $27 Social Bot is super cheap compared to BMD's $147 price tag. But if you're like me and you absolutely know that you won't use something that's difficult to use, then just consider the 147 a worthy investment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kael41
    If socialbot was ever updated, it could be good. Otherwise not worth the money right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author itlnoor
    Well I must agree this thread is an information Landmine. I am planning to buy a social bookmarking software to begin with. I think with the amount of information available here that supports BMD, I must go with BMD>
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  • Profile picture of the author boosters
    The worst thing in BMD is they charge $4/1000 captcha with a low success rate of submission.
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    • Profile picture of the author edwinsoft
      Originally Posted by boosters View Post

      The worst thing in BMD is they charge $4/1000 captcha with a low success rate of submission.
      We have since revised the price for decaptcher to be $2.22 / 1000 on 31st Jan.

      For the low success rate, check your self-add list. They probably need some maintenance work.

      If you use proxies, turn that off. Our main default list is kept at 70% success. Anything below that, something is wrong. Check your proxy, and if decaptcher is overloaded. Those are out of what the software can do.
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  • Profile picture of the author bikramksingh
    Anyone has any idea about how BD fares against socialmonkee? Or are they so different tht I am being stupid asking this question
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  • Profile picture of the author Masum492
    Bookmarking demon is good for social bookmarking. I used that before and its good I think.
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  • Profile picture of the author userlog
    hello, you don't need to use any software for this.there is a free great website to bookmark automatically your post to many social media like Delicious, Pinboard, Diigo, historious, Instapaper, Pocket (Read It Later). but before you use this website you have to send your rss feed to your twitter then from there to this site which will send your posts and links to the social media I mentioned above. The site is Packrati.us - Bookmark your Twitter links

    if you want I can make a video to show you how to send rss feeds automatically to twitter or to other social media.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dhira
      Originally Posted by userlog View Post

      hello, you don't need to use any software for this.there is a free great website to bookmark automatically your post to many social media like Delicious, Pinboard, Diigo, historious, Instapaper, Pocket (Read It Later). but before you use this website you have to send your rss feed to your twitter then from there to this site which will send your posts and links to the social media I mentioned above. The site is Packrati.us - Bookmark your Twitter links

      if you want I can make a video to show you how to send rss feeds automatically to twitter or to other social media.
      I'd love to see a video on that if you could make one, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author aspic791
    I've been 5 years running SEO business and to be honest, to not list any consequences of using these tools, I'll recommend you Manual social bookmarking, it has an immediate effect on search engine ranking
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