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Thank you for buying Bookmarking Coach. It is my hope that this manual will help you attain stress-free successful automated bookmarking with Bookmarking Demon.

Notice This manual is copyrighted by Diane Sontag / Bookmarking Coach 2010 - 2011. This manual is for your personal use only. You may not let anyone else read, photocopy, print or electronically store this manual or excerpts from it. This manual may not be sold, shared, given away, used as a bonus or distributed in any way. This manual may not be transmitted or stored on any website or other form of electronic retrieval system. No part of this manual may be copied, altered, or in any way reproduced, neither in part or whole. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Steps for Success: Your First BMD Run........................................... 6 If You Need Help, Use the Support System ................................................ 7 Putting in a Support Ticket................................................................... 8 How Owning Bookmarking Demon is Like Owning a Truck Fleet........................9 Your Bookmarking Checklist ............................................................... 10 Every Bookmarking Demon 'Run' Has Four Sections..................................... 11 Create New Accounts Immediately When New Bookmarking Sites Are Added ......12 Adding Huge Lists of Bookmarking Sites to Your Bookmarking Demon...............13 Before You Create Accounts................................................................ 14 Account Creation Procedure ............................................................... 15 Finding RSS Feeds for Bookmarking Demon.............................................. 16 How to Find Ping Server URLs For Bookmarking Demon................................ 18 Should You Use Projects?.................................................................... 20 What Should You Bookmark?................................................................ 21 Why Bookmark?............................................................................... 21 Chapter 2: The Mysteries of Categories Revealed.......................................... 22 Using the Set Default Category Option................................................ 22 Bookmarking Demon Has A Self-Updating Category Function.......................... 23 Reload Categories Function................................................................. 24 What to Do When Set Default Category Does Not Work................................ 26 Right Click to Select a Category........................................................... 27 Adding Categories Manually ............................................................... 28 How to Decide Which Category is Best................................................... 29 Directly Adding a Category to the Field .................................................. 30 Chapter 3: Settings for Main Bookmarking Sites............................................ 32 Preferences contains five tabs:............................................................ 33 Performance Settings for Main Bookmarking ........................................... 34 When Anti-Bot Mechanism is Engaged..................................................... 35 Randomization Settings for Main Bookmarking Sites.................................... 36 A Look at a Well-Randomized Main Bookmarking Queue............................... 37 Connection Settings for Main Bookmarking.............................................. 38 Miscellaneous Settings for Main Bookmarking........................................... 39
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How to Use the Spammometer............................................................. 40 How to Increase Success at Main Bookmarking Sites.................................... 41 Chapter 4: Scuttle, Scuttle Plus, phpDug and Pligg Settings............................. 42 Performance Settings for Scuttle and Pligg Bookmarking.............................. 43 Randomization Settings for Scuttle and Pligg Bookmarking...........................44 Connection Settings for Scuttle/Pligg Bookmarking ................................... 45 Miscellaneous Settings for Scuttle and Pligg Sites ...................................... 46 Chapter 5: Visual Aid Settings................................................................. 47 Loading Up Your DeCaptcher Account..................................................... 50 Entering User Name and Password at the Visual Aid Tab............................... 51 Check DeCaptcher Balance................................................................. 52 ByPass Captcha Key ......................................................................... 53 When to use Visual Aid...................................................................... 59 Is Visual Aid Accurate?....................................................................... 59 Tips for Getting Visual Aid to Work Better for You...................................... 63 DeCaptcher VIP Service .................................................................... 65 Chapter 6: Optimal Scheduler Settings...................................................... 66 Using the Scheduler Calendar.............................................................. 67 Viewing What URLs Are in the Scheduler................................................. 68 Changing the Date in Scheduler............................................................ 69 Scheduler Works in the Background....................................................... 70 Chapter 7: Take Good Care of Your Accounts.............................................. 72 How to keep from getting banned from bookmarking websites:.....................72 How to Keep Your Bookmarking Links Indexed in the Search Engines................72 Why Do Some of the Bookmarking Websites Have Registration Disabled?...........73 Chapter 8: The SEO Techniques of Bookmarking........................................... 74 Building Search Engine Optimization Into Your Submissions........................... 76 A Link is a Link................................................................................ 76 Chapter 9: Why You Need to Bookmark Your URLs Monthly .............................. 77 A phpdug site giving a link from a voting button ....................................... 78 A do follow bookmarking site with indirect links ...................................... 81 A site with direct, dofollow, keyword-anchored links ................................. 82 Chapter 10: Resources for Bookmarking..................................................... 83 Follow me at Twitter I am bookmarkcoach............................................. 83 Products Offered by Diane Sontag......................................................... 84
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Products Recommended by Bookmarking Coach......................................... 84 How to Quickly Determine Your BMD Version Number.................................. 85 Chapter 11: Upgrading Bookmarking Demon to Newest Version.........................86 Download, unzip, open the folder and click on .exe .................................. 86 Chapter 12: Change Log........................................................................ 88 09 March 2011 Version 5.5.5............................................................... 88 02 March 2011 Version 5.5.5................................................................ 88 22 February 2011 Version 5.5.5............................................................ 88 04 February 2011 Version 5.5.5............................................................ 88 28 January 2011 Version 5.5.5............................................................. 89 10 November 2010 Version 5.5........................................................... 89 22 January 2011 Version 5.5.5 ........................................................... 89 30 December 2010 Version 5.5.4 ......................................................... 89 24 November 2010 version 5.5.3 ......................................................... 89 09 November 2010 version 5.5.2.......................................................... 89 07 September 2010 Version 5.5.2 ....................................................... 89 24 July 2010 Version 5.5.1.................................................................. 89 21 June 2010 Version 5.5................................................................... 90 27 April 2010 Version 5.4.2................................................................ 90 12 March 2010 Version 5.4.................................................................. 90 22 January 2010 Version 5.2............................................................... 90

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Chapter 1: Steps for Success: Your First BMD Run

If you own Bookmarking Demon, then you own one of the best automated bookmark submitters available today. It is a sophisticated piece of software which can be daunting to the beginner. This optimization manual was created to help the beginner start a successful bookmarking session as soon as possible, and to assist advanced users in getting optimal SEO value from their bookmarking. With settings that work and optimal SEO techniques in place, anyone can create premium bookmark links for any site. This manual is meant to be an easy-to-understand explanation of how to get the best results from Bookmarking Demon, for both beginner and advanced user. To get the most from this manual it is recommended that you review all of the training videos inside the Bookmarking Demon Dashboard prior to using this manual . To find the videos go to Dashboard and then click on the User Guides & Training Videos Tab (green book icon). Directly below the green book icon are three more tabs. Choose the tab called Training Videos. Look inside the large white area to find a black link Open Training Videos and then you should be looking at something very similar to what is shown in the following screen shot:

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If You Need Help, Use the Support System

...that is offered by Bookmarking Demon. If you don't understand something or if things go wrong, be sure to send in a support ticket. The support staff is very professional and efficient. Here is a screen shot of where to register for the support function. Go to your Dashboard and click on the tab labeled Support Ticket (man in a blue shirt with microphone headset). Fill out the information to register a Support Account. 1. Dashboard

2. Support Ticket Tab 3. Create account

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Putting in a Support Ticket

You will see your name in large bold letters, and a little bit below that is a link to open a new support ticket.

New Ticket

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How Owning Bookmarking Demon is Like Owning a Truck Fleet

You now own the BMD Trucking Company, Delivering KeywordAnchored Backlinks to Bookmarking Websites Worldwide! Your BMD Trucking Company has an unlimited number of trucks and drivers (accounts) delivering your freight (bookmarks) to the terminals (bookmarking websites)! Fuel and fluids (RSS feeds, Ping Servers, Proxies) keep your fleet traveling as many as forty highways (threads) at a time! Trucking Companies Highways Fuel and Fluids Drivers US DOT Number Freight Terminals Threads RSS, Ping, Proxies Accounts IP Address Bookmarks Bookmarking Websites BMD Equivalent

Impressive! But successful delivery of your freight depends on one thing the ability of your drivers to produce the proper identification to get past the gatekeeper at each terminal. The challenge your company faces is that each gatekeeper has their own checklist of credentials your driver must meet before your freight will be accepted. Gatekeepers do not hesitate to turn away drivers who fail to meet every one of the criteria on the checklist. Every driver's identification is checked at the gate. This includes First Name, Last Name, Email, User name, password, and US DOT number (IP address). The gatekeeper checks the database and determines if the delivery will be accepted. Some criteria can be: No deliveries from the same US DOT number within 24 hours. No drivers using another driver's US DOT number shall be permitted to deliver. Every piece of freight on the truck must be unique. There are many more criteria, too many to list, and some drivers are turned down without an explanation, thereby keeping the criteria list a secret. The BMD Trucking Company has determined that since the checklists of the gatekeepers are routinely changed without warning and are not uniform, and also due to established terminals closing without notice and new terminals being discovered daily, it is more cost beneficial to have each driver carry numerous identification cards with various User names and to use a temporary US DOT number on the truck, than it is to track the checklist variables. Therefore randomized, automated bookmarking submission was created for busy webmasters. You will never achieve 100% successful delivery of your freight. That's a given. Not even the developer of Bookmarking Demon achieves total success during monitoring and maintenance of the software.

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Your Bookmarking Checklist

1. Fuel Up! Provide the trucks in your BMD fleet the 3 fuels/fluids it needs to operate RSS Feeds - Search the internet for RSS feeds and load approximately 15 into Randomization tab Ping Servers - Search the internet for ping servers and load approximately 15 into Performance tab Proxies - Search the internet for free public proxies (or subscribe to my Tested Proxies Service ) Create at least 5 accounts per social bookmarking site (follow directions pg. 15) Verify registrations automatically (training video #5) Assign categories to social bookmarking sites that require them ( Chapter 1 ) Set your preferences to match the ones shown in this manual ( Chapters 2 and 3) Add your web page URLs and apply beneficial SEO techniques (Chapter 7)

2. Load Up! Hire your drivers and load your freight

3. Haul! Get that truck on the road and deliver those bookmarks! Main Sites Load queue with proxies off, turn proxies On, RSS feeds on, change browser appearance, use spammometer (optional), submit, keep all sites in queue Main sites Part Two Proxies Off, RSS feeds on, change browser appearance, submit, delete all failed sites in queue, untick all Main sites, tick all Scuttle/Pligg sites Scuttle/Pligg sites Proxies On, RSS feeds off, change browser appearance,load up queue, apply spammometer (optional), submit, keep all sites in queue Scuttle/Pligg sites Part Two Proxies Off, RSS feeds off, change browser appearance, submit, delete all failed sites in queue 4. Truck Stop! Turn proxies on, hit start button in ping tab, go eat dinner, shower and go to sleep 5. Tomorrow: Add more website URLs and repeat steps 3 and 4 Fleet Maintenance Log into each Main Site account once a month and perform manual actions, such as commenting, rating or voting, or any activity you can find that Bookmarking Demon cannot do. Also bookmark a non-profit URL, or another URL besides a news story. You need to appear different than all other users of Bookmarking Demon or other automated bookmarking submission software. Troubleshooting (optional) If you experience unexpected low successful submissions, turn off modem, wait twenty minutes, turn modem back on, go back to Step 3

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Every Bookmarking Demon 'Run' Has Four Sections Main Sites Proxies On (Note: load up bookmarking queue with proxies OFF see step 4)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Change browser appearance untick Scuttle/Pligg sites tick MAIN sites turn off proxies load bookmarking queue apply spammometer (optional) turn ON proxies hit START leave everything in the bookmarking queue when finished

Main Sites Proxies Off

1. 2. 3. 4. Change browser appearance turn off proxies hit START clear bookmarking queue (note: the successful bookmarks remain, grey with a line through them. These will automatically disappear when BMD is shut down and restarted)

Scuttle/Pligg Proxies On
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Change browser appearance turn on proxies turn off RSS feeds untick MAIN sites tick Scuttle/Pligg sites load queue apply spammometer (optional) hit START leave everything in the bookmarking queue when finished

Scuttle/Pligg Proxies Off

1. 2. 3. 4. Change browser appearance turn off proxies hit START clear bookmarking queue (note: the successful bookmarks remain, grey with a line through them. These will automatically disappear when BMD is shut down and restarted)

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Create New Accounts Immediately When New Bookmarking Sites Are Added
Important: After an upgrade to Bookmarking Demon (these are quite frequent), there might be new bookmarking sites added to the bookmarking sites list. Create accounts at the new sites immediately, as the site might later cut off registration, but allow all current members to continue bookmarking. And you want to have accounts on the inside instead of banging on their door, fruitlessly asking to be allowed in. New sites added will be highlighted in yellow, whether you add them yourself or Edwin adds them during an upgrade.

New sites added in an update are yellow Depending on how ofter you bookmark, your BMD might have new sites inside it every time you open it! Always take a peek to see if there are any yellow highlighted sites and make accounts right away!

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Adding Huge Lists of Bookmarking Sites to Your Bookmarking Demon

Many people publish lists of bookmarking websites in forums or on their websites. These are easy enough to find through a simple Google search for bookmarking sites or bookmarking sites list. What is not easy to find is a list of sites guaranteed to work inside BMD. Those lists are hard to find, and when you do find them, they are usually not free. Regardless of which type of list you obtain, many of the sites on your list are bound to have registration closed or not work inside of BMD for various reasons. Just add the whole list to your BMD, create an account at each, and try one bookmarking session with the newlyadded sites to see which ones are worth keeping. Here is a screen shot of the end of an addition of a long list of sites to my BMD:

3376 failed 844 successfully added 974 were duplicates

So there will be 844 more yellow lines in the list of bookmarking sites, all needing accounts created. Some of these 844 will not be successful in account creation. Some of the 844 with successful accounts will not be successful in bookmarking. That is just how things go in the world of automated bookmarking.

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Before You Create Accounts

Having Bookmarking Demon verify accounts is recommended. In order to be able to do that, you must be certain that BMD can upload your email. You should verify the connection of your ingoing and outgoing servers BEFORE you use an email for account creation. Both gmail and cPanel email servers are working seamlessly. In most cases the default values for the servers and ports will work for those two type of email accounts.

Success!

Note: leave off the @gmail.com Test beforeusing this email for Creating accounts

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Account Creation Procedure

1. Untick box in performance tab instructing BMD to skip a site requiring captcha 2. Tick ALL bookmarking sites 3. Make sure proxies are disabled I get a much higher success rate when I do not use public proxies 4. Click on the Create Accounts icon and enter User Account Details Each account ('driver') needs a unique email to which you have access No limit on number of user names mix it up! Use same first name, last name, email and password to keep things simple

ignore

Any email to which you have access

ignore

USE ignore ignore

5. Hit OK and account creation begins. You will not get 100% success. 6. Untick all the sites at which you successfully created accounts 7. Tick all the sties at which account creation was not successful 8. Enable proxies 9. Select a new browser configuration from the Miscellaneous tab 10.Enter same account information as in step 4. 11.Hit start. 12.Verify registrations automatically (training video #5) or manually

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Finding RSS Feeds for Bookmarking Demon

Here is a short list of sites which display RSS feeds for your use. http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp http://www.syndic8.com/feedcat.php http://www.rssreader.com/rssfeeds.htm Now here are the criteria for choosing the feeds that have the greatest chance of being successful inside of Bookmarking Demon: 1. More than one post listed for today and every day of the previous week 2. No images 3. No ads Here is an example of an RSS feed you do not want to use, due to the feed not being busy enough to give you unique feeds for your bookmarking camouflage:

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And here is an example of an RSS feed that has a good chance of being useful inside of your Bookmarking Demon. It is plenty busy enough to deliver unique content each time it is accessed during the filling up of the bookmarking queue:

There are an average of five to seven stories each day on this busy feed with no images or ads.

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How to Find Ping Server URLs For Bookmarking Demon

1. Conduct a Google search for ping list 2011 2. Copy any of the lists you find on any of the sites that come up on the first page of the search results from step 1. 3. Next go to http://www.thepinglist.com/default.aspx and copy your long list from step 2 into the ping checker area at the top. Here is a screenshot of the results I got today turn out the list I copied was not very new at all.

Use any service with a positive number rating (green)

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Scrolling further down the Ping checker results, I find a few more live ping servers, for a total of 10 good ones out of a list of over 200. Most of those ought to work well inside of Bookmarking Demon for a few months. You will need to repeat this search and test method as needed. I try to keep 15 ping servers loaded up at all times.

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Should You Use Projects?

Well, that depends on your business use of Bookmarking Demon. If I were providing SEO services for a brick and mortar company, I would create a project for each company I bookmarked for. It will help you with your overall organization. If you are bookmarking for only yourself, you might opt for skipping project creation. If you have huge sites with hundreds or thousands of deep pages, a project might help in your organization. I don't use projects, but my sites are not large, and I don't have that many of them. I like everything in one place. If you decide to use projects, remember to tick the Import Accounts from Master List option if you wish to use your established accounts.

Tick is optional

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What Should You Bookmark?

You should bookmark every URL you own, plus every URL that has a link pointing to your websites. Bookmark the URLs of your published articles ( I recommend Article Demon for automated article submission from Edwin Soft, the maker of Bookmarking Demon.) Bookmark any support pages you have created, such as Squidoo lens or Hub Pages. Bookmark your RSS feeds. Bookmark your directory listings ( I recommend Submit Eaze for quick directory submissions with a great live link checker). If it points to your site, bookmark it!

Why Bookmark?
Besides the obvious reason that all links benefit a site and a bookmark is one kind of link, there are two other reasons: traffic and privacy. Some sites have 'crowd appeal,' and once noticed at a main bookmarking site just might 'go viral.' Another reason is privacy. If you don't like the idea of a competitor firing up Market Samurai or other back links checker and seeing all your links, then you better have more links than the tools can deliver. The magic number is 1000. You will need more than a thousand links to have your links start falling off the page in the eyes of your competition.

Now let's get on to the many things you can do to optimize your automated bookmarking with Bookmarking Demon.

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Chapter 2: The Mysteries of Categories Revealed

Choose a different category from drop-down box if you prefer

Using the Set Default Category Option

In the Social Bookmarking Sites tab, click on the Set Default Category icon. Select all the rows, then have BMD tick all the selected rows, then hit 'GO.' BMD will assign the categories and the Matched value, in this case 58, will become the Default Category Specified value when finished (see next screen shot). Close out this view and you will see all 58 sites now have a category assigned to them exactly as needed.

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Now you can see that BMD has added 58 default categories:

Bookmarking Demon Has A Self-Updating Category Function

With the 5.5.5 version of January 2011, Bookmarking Demon now has the ability to update categories automatically. For self-added sites that requires category, Bookmarking Demon will perform a self-update on the category list if it detects changes at the bookmarking website during submission. This means the more you use Bookmarking Demon, the more accurate your categories will become.

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Reload Categories Function

Now what about those other ones without categories? Upgrades in BMD have streamlined the process of adding categories. You no longer have to manually visit the bookmarking website to view the categories. Instead, right click on the name of the bookmarking website needing category designation, and then left click on reload categories when the drop down box appears.

2. Left-click here 1. Right-click here

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You should see the website categories being loaded up:

When you go back to the Social Bookmarking Sites tab, there is now a drop-down box of categories available for your use. Most of the time this function works well.

But not in the case of the following site...

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What to Do When Set Default Category Does Not Work

In this case, BMD pulled site elements that are not categories. You will have to visit the site to manually add a suitable generic category for use with this social bookmarking site. (see next page)

These are not categories. You must visit the site to view the categories and manually add.

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Right Click to Select a Category

While in the bookmarking sites list, scan to see which, if any, bookmarking sites have not yet been assigned a category. When you find one, right click on the name of the bookmarking site. That right click opens an idiot box oh, sorry......dialogue box with a few choices. The type of site chosen determines the choices. Here is a screen shot of choosing a category for a phpdug site, adusum.org Right click on the name

Click to open the Drop-down list of categories

Select a category, then hit Enter to close the box and populate the field

You can see the populated category field

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Adding Categories Manually

When a social bookmarking website has been greatly modified, BMD is sometimes unable to pull the categories.

Others or News would be good generic category choices for this bookmarking website

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How to Decide Which Category is Best

Here is an example of BMD correctly pulling the categories from a bookmarking website:

Always choose the most generic category provided by the site, so one category fits all. That means you use the same category at each site for all your bookmarks

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Directly Adding a Category to the Field

Left double-click to activate the category field and then just type in the category you want. In this case enter News

Choose News for this site

Miscellaneous is another good generic category to use for one category fits all bookmarking

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And here is the finished manually-added category:

This bookmarking site does not require a category. But if bookmarking is unsuccessful, adding a category can sometimes be the solution..

When you detect a bookmark has been rejected due to a wrong category, first try leaving it as is and bookmark with it. If you are lucky, the self-updating category function will work on the site and you won't have to do any more troubleshooting. If that fails, then visit the site, make note of a generic category, and update it.

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Chapter 3: Settings for Main Bookmarking Sites

There are two types of bookmarking to do inside Bookmarking Demon, MAIN bookmarking site submissions and SCUTTLE/SCUTTLE PLUS/PLIGG/PHPDUG bookmarking site submissions. You will be bookmarking your MAIN bookmarking sites separately from all other types of sites. In this chapter you will learn the best settings for Main bookmarking websites. There are currently 24 MAIN bookmarking sites inside BMD. These sites are all in the BMD group called 'MAIN.' When you sort your bookmarking sites by Group, the MAIN bookmarking sites appear at the top of the list, as shown in this screen shot:

You cannot, by design, add any MAIN sites to your BMD.

Click here to sort this column

Bookmark to the 24 MAIN group bookmarking sites separately from any other group. Only the MAIN sites will have RSS feeds enabled. Think of bookmarking websites as two types, MAIN and NON-MAIN. The non-main sites are all the pligg, scuttle, scuttle plus and phpdug sites.

When bookmarking at a main bookmarking site, you will always utilize the RSS feed function.

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You do not want to 'overstay your welcome' at any main bookmarking site. A main bookmarking site is usually a large site that is monitored by a staff person. Visual inspections will be done on the site and submitters who engage in excessive self promotion will find their IP blocked. Some webmasters will block an IP and then remove all tags and stories submitted. Now let me share with you the preferences settings for submitting to the 24 MAIN bookmarking websites included with Bookmarking Demon. Go to dashboard, then preferences.

Preferences contains five tabs:

Performance concerns how fast or slow you make your submissions happen. The idea is to choose settings that will mimic the time it takes for a manual submission Randomization takes into account that people doing manual bookmarking will bookmark news events frequently; BMD will also rotate through a short list of titles, tags and descriptions of your choice so your bookmarks will not be identical Connection the mysteries of when and when not to use proxies will be revealed Miscellaneous adding an extra layer of randomization to your bookmarking Visual Aid see Chapter Three, Visual Aid Settings, pages 17-34 Follow along with the labeled screen shots of Main bookmarking settings on the following pages, one page for each of the first four tabs within Preferences. For the fifth tab, Visual Aid, see Chapter 5.

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Performance Settings for Main Bookmarking

Do not tick! Or RSS feeds will fail to load into your bookmarking queue!

Notes: I want to submit 20 bookmarks at any one time - (If your computer cannot handle 20 threads at a time, decrease the number until your BMD runs smoothly for you. You will need to experiment. But most people with computers no older than two or three years should be able to use 20 threads at a time.) If you don't want to enter the CAPTCHA manually and don't want to use Visual Aid, then check the box for skipping CAPTCHA. This tells BMD to ignore all the sites which require CAPTCHA during the bookmarking process.

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When Anti-Bot Mechanism is Engaged

Here is a screen shot of the anti-bot mechanism automatically being engaged during a bookmarking session:

BMD has automatically decreased my 20 threads to 16

The anti-bot mechanism engages automatically just let the run finish. Don't interrupt to turn it off.

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Randomization Settings for Main Bookmarking Sites

Selecting this option gives your web pages preference over the bookmarking sites during queue loading

Notes: For each web page, it will have 100% to 100% chance to be selected for bookmark submission. Enable RSS camouflage and pick between 2 to 3 RSS feed for each web page submitted... Add working RSS feed URLs here in this box. More than fifteen RSS feeds in here will impede your bookmarking BMD will be too slow. 10 to 15 is good. Select 5 for random picking of the RSS feeds *See Chapter 1 for instructions on finding RSS feeds that work inside BMD

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A Look at a Well-Randomized Main Bookmarking Queue

Note that 2 to 3 RSS feeds selected, the queue does not look spammy. In this example, I am setting up a run of some non-profit sites to improve the quality and uniqueness of the submissions at my accounts at the Main bookmarking sites:

User aj... is Submitting one Non-profit and 2 RSS feeds

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Connection Settings for Main Bookmarking

You do want to use proxy servers. Use this setting first. After bookmarking with proxies is finished, return to this tab and select I do not want to use any proxy server. Then change your browser appearance in the miscellaneous tab. (More about that on the next page) You will then pick up additional successful bookmarks from whatever sites failed with proxies. Do an internet search for free public proxies or subscribe to Bookmarking Coach's Tested Proxies Subscription Service and insert live proxies here. (When it is time to ping your accounts, you will return to this tab to be sure you have selected "Let me define my own proxy server." The only way to successfully use the ping function is to use proxies during pinging. ( A list of 50 green proxies lasts me at least seven days.) If there is no response within 180 seconds, declare proxy server as dead...

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Miscellaneous Settings for Main Bookmarking

I want to appear as.... when I access the sites. With each bookmarking run I use the next one in the drop-down list and then return to the second choice in the list and start downwards again. I never use the first choice because most people do not bother to change this setting and they are all using the first choice by default. The point is to appear different from other bookmarkers and to appear different to the bookmarking websites each time you make a bookmarking run. I do NOT want BMD to auto-restore deleted sites back into current project from server... I keep this checked. When I delete a site it is for a very good reason and I do not want BMD undoing my decision. Possible reasons: site is dead, have never had a successful submission, site will not approve captcha when correct, etc etc etc! When all those have been set up, click OK.

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How to Use the Spammometer

The use of the spammometer is optional. First click on the icon to Calculate the Spam Level. If the slider button moves to the right more than two notches, manually slide the button back over to the left until you are in the first or second position of the Low Spam area. Then hit Apply to start the adjustment. Think of the Spammometer as the override button, placing its own anti-spam rules to your bookmarking queue. If you use the Spammometer, you do not have to worry too much about whether or not you applied enough randomization in your settings. Undoubtedly your bookmarking queue will become shorter when you do this. But your accounts will also last a good deal longer if you operate in the Low Spam mode at all times.

1. Calculate Spam Level

3. Hit Apply

2. Slide button To first or second Position for Low Spam, if necessary

4. Spammometer At Work

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How to Increase Success at Main Bookmarking Sites

When verifying your accounts for your main bookmarking sites, I recommend following every link inside every email you receive from these couple dozen or so Main group sites given by Edwin inside BMD. Since you cannot add your own main sites, you need to take special care to learn these couple dozen sites characteristics and attributes. As automated bookmarking software becomes more sophisticated, so do the anti-spam measures created and put in place by the webmasters of Main bookmarking sites. Here is one example of the extra time well spent when verifying a Main account. In the verification email from Fark, for example, you will be given some special instructions. To avoid automated account verification such as is available in Bookmarking Demon, Fark has an alternative account verification task. You must send a reply email with no message.

Expiring passwords exist to keep out spammers

texas345

...reply to this message with a blank message.

Fark will reply back with a welcome email message, in which it states that after 6 hours you may begin to bookmark. Another rule! After account creation and verification at main bookmarking sites, visit each one manually and log in to create profile details. Add some bio information at the very least. Then while you are logged in, take some action. Comment by hand on someone else's entry. If there is a voting button make use of it. Rate something. Do something to show you have been there in person. Add main bookmarking manual activity tasks to your monthly to do list.

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Chapter 4: Scuttle, Scuttle Plus, phpDug and Pligg Settings

For the purposes of this manual, the phrase "Scuttle and Pligg sites" encompasses all four types of non-Main bookmarking sites: Scuttle, Scuttle Plus, Pligg and PHPDug sites. This chapter discusses all the settings you need for successful bookmarking to these four kinds of sites. Most of the settings stay the same as for main bookmarking sites, so it is quite easy to quickly adjust your settings to begin your scuttle and pligg runs. It is not necessary, nor is it recommended, to submit RSS feeds while bookmarking to scuttle and Pligg sites. For the most part, scuttle and Pligg sites are not closely monitored by their webmasters. In most cases, these sites are being used as an income stream and the webmasters want lots of traffic. The webmasters hope that somebody will click on an ad at their bookmarking site. So they are unlikely to ban any IP's. Go to dashboard, and then to preferences, as before. To keep things simple, I am listing only the settings that are different from the main bookmarking settings. Complete screen shots of each tab are below, with a list of settings you need to change when you switch from main to scuttle/pligg bookmarking runs.

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Performance Settings for Scuttle and Pligg Bookmarking

Performance settings are identical for Main and Scuttle/Pligg bookmarking submissions.

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Randomization Settings for Scuttle and Pligg Bookmarking

Untick 10-15 RSS feed URLs URLs here Insert 10 15 RSS feed are stored for the next time you need them Untick

Untick the box for RSS camouflage for scuttle and pligg bookmarking. Leave the RSS feed URLs in the bottom white box for your main bookmarking run tomorrow.

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Connection Settings for Scuttle/Pligg Bookmarking

No changes first you will bookmark with proxies, leave all failed URLs in the queue, return to 'Connection' tab, deactivate proxies, choose next browser appearance in drop down list of miscellaneous tab and bookmark again.

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Miscellaneous Settings for Scuttle and Pligg Sites

Always choose the next appearance in the drop down list just prior to starting a bookmarking section... Hit OK.

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Chapter 5: Visual Aid Settings

Go to http://decaptcher-reloaded.com/client/ and register

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Register Here

When things change at decapther, Edwin lets us know inside a change log.

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Notice that DeCaptcher recommends against using a gmail account.

No G-Mail!

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Loading Up Your DeCaptcher Account

Load up your account with the minimum of $10.00 as you test and practice. Although decaptcher.com charges $2 for 1000 decaptcha, Edwin is an affiliate and the price inside BMD is $4 for 1000 decaptcha.

You You will receive several emails from Avangate and decaptcher.com after you load up your first $10.

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Entering User Name and Password at the Visual Aid Tab

After registration, account verification and payment by credit card at Avantage, enter your username and password at the Visual Aid tab.

At decatcher-reloaded.com you will find the server info on the home page. They always show two, but you just need one. Copy and paste here.

Skip a site after it fails 3 times.

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Check DeCaptcher Balance

Press the Check Balance button before bookmarking and you should see your $10 loaded up and ready to spend!

Here is your balance.

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ByPass Captcha Key

Edwin has included a second captcha breaker, called ByPassCaptcha. Go to http://bypasscaptcha.com/order1.php, and order a key.

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Clicking on the Buy Now button will take you directly to an order form at plimus:

Note: at press time bypasscaptcha was transitioning away from Plimus and toward another payment provider.

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Plimus will send you the activation key via email, then you enter the key inside the BMD Visual Aid tab.

Before you get a confirmation email, you will get a computerized telephone call asking you to verify your purchase and you are asked to enter the last four digits of the credit card used in the purchase. You then have to wait for an additional email to arrive containing your key.

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Insert your key code into the Visual Aid bypasscaptcha key code area of Bookmarking Demon Preferences.

key Balance is 0

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Hit the check balance key to see your credit total, not in monetary units, but in credit units. A credit in bypasscaptcha means a correctly decoded captcha.

Balance after entering key

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If you choose to use both Visual Aid providers, I recommend you set up the preferences reflecting which provider is currently providing service consistently. Each can encounter technical difficulties at any time. Check your email for any messages from DeCaptcher and bypasscaptcha. If you haven't heard from either of them since you last bookmarked, then you can set either as first priority. This week my settings look like this:

Bypasscaptcha is running more smoothly for me this week, so it gets set as 1st priority

If either one is totally unresponsive, go ahead and temporarily disable it. Go to each tab to check your balance at each visual aid provider. If you get an error message from one of them, that is a sign that you should disable that service temporarily.

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When to use Visual Aid

You can use visual aid during account creation, or during bookmarking, or during both, or not at all. It is totally optional. It just depends on your budget. If you choose to use visual aids, then you can have your bookmarking with the Demon totally hands-free once the bookmarking queue is loaded up. If you are on a tight budget, the only way to have totally automated bookmarking with the demon is to select only bookmarking sites that do not have captcha during the bookmarking process. Using visual aid keeps you from spending extra time searching for new noncaptcha bookmarking sites to add to your BMD. With visual aid, any bookmarking site you find in your search is a possibility.

Is Visual Aid Accurate?

In a word, yes. Using visual aid is just as accurate as entering the captcha yourself. It is human-powered, after all. There are employees in developing nations entering captcha for you. It is not automated. There are some bookmarking sites that will ask you for a captcha repeatedly, telling you that your captcha answer was wrong, when indeed it was correct. This is not the fault of the visual aid provider, it is a spam-prevention setting that exists at the bookmarking site itself. Whether you use visual aid or enter captchas yourself, some sites just are not going to let you in. Give up after a reasonable number of tries. You can go to those stubborn sites and create an account manually, and attempt to have BMD bookmark with the hand-created account. In my experience, this is successful less than half the time, so I no longer bother. If a site is stubborn enough to keep BMD out during account creation, it is most likely going to be just as stubborn when BMD attempts to use the hand-created account you load in. My advice is to just accept you will never get 100% success rates at account creation or bookmarking with any software. Learn to live with less than perfection and just go find more sites to load into BMD.

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Here is a view of the use of Visual Aid during account creation:

Proxies are enabled in the connections tab of preferences

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After creating two accounts with Visual Aids, the original $10.00 credit with DeCaptcher is now $9.996 Now that is precise!

bookmarker

Very precise!

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Here you can see that the bypasscaptcha visual aid did not contribute to breaking any captcha all 2000 units still exist.

Full balance remains

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Tips for Getting Visual Aid to Work Better for You

There are busy times and slow times for the human captcha breakers who work for decaptcher.com and bypasscaptcha.com. They get overloaded during peak times when bookmarkers from the USA are submitting with Bookmarking Demon Visual Aid. You can go to their website and check on load statistics. Any number below 100% means you can start bookmarking and the decaptcher system should work well for you. Load statistics are posted on their home page. Today the website at decaptcher.com is not available. I received an email from DeCaptcher telling me to go to http://72.233.78.210 instead. And also enter this number inside your BMD in the server field

1% load time is very low so you should expect high success

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Here is where you enter the decaptcher.com server number, and be sure to check Use HTTP POST API.

Tick this box

bookmarker

y7uhji89kmngyt56r

Enter server #

This is optional. If unticked, ************* is seen.

So use scheduler to do your bookmarking when most of the USA is not bookmarking. So use scheduler to do your bookmarking when most of the USA is not bookmarking.

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DeCaptcher VIP Service

Another option is to pay more for VIP service to jump to the front of the queue. Here is a screenshot of that section of the website:

Go to the Priority Page

You could have success with as low as 25 cents per 1000 pictures

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Chapter 6: Optimal Scheduler Settings

When Edwin added a scheduler for bookmarking, I was intrigued to find out how to use it to save even more time. The scheduler saves you time by allowing you to load a huge amount of website URLs to be bookmarked by an equally huge number of accounts. So you will save yourself loading up time. It is the perfect companion to using Visual Aid, the extra function you need to keep your automated bookmarking truly hands-off. I have had success with letting 3 attempts occur at each site, and having the scheduler wait for 1 minute before giving up and moving on to the next in line. (You set this in the Performance Tab of Preferences inside the Dashboard.) The drip scheduler is a real nice addition.

Going too fast will result in a low success rate. I recommend keeping the interval time equal to or greater than the number of bookmarks per schedule. Don't go faster than a bookmark per minute. This run will take 5 hours.

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Using the Scheduler Calendar

Here is how the scheduler calendar appears with the settings of 30 bookmarks per schedule, every 30 minutes. Here you can see I have chosen times in which the human decaptcha workers probably won't be overloaded with too many requests.

There are 30 URLs in queue in each of these schedules

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Viewing What URLs Are in the Scheduler

If you double click on any of the blue scheduled areas, you can view exactly which URLs will be bookmarked, by which account, and with what keyword, tag and description. You can manually change the Date and Time in this view if needed. In this case it is 30 URLs. Hit 'Cancel,' which will not cancel the schedule, but will close the window. Hitting the 'Okay' button will also close the window.

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Changing the Date in Scheduler

Here you can see the result of my changing the date on one of the schedules, moving it ahead in time by one full day. The changed schedule now appears with its summary beside it, which lists the name and how many bookmarks. You can also click and drag a schedule to a new date or time.

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Scheduler Works in the Background

After you hit the start button, you are reminded that Bookmarking Demon will work in the background but that you will not be able to do any other Bookmarking Demon tasks while the scheduler is working. After you tell it okay, the waiting begins. Minimize BMD and go do other things.

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As soon as the time arrives, bookmarking begins automatically.

Immediately upon completion of one schedule, the scheduler puts itself back into wait mode. When the scheduled time arrives, scheduler will restart bookmarking.

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Chapter 7: Take Good Care of Your Accounts

Bookmarking Demon was never meant to be a tool for spammers. It is simply a welldesigned program to help you automate a task you would normally do by hand.

How to keep from getting banned from bookmarking websites:

1. Keep from entering too many tags at submission. I always limit tags to five, and I have never been banned. 2. Avoid bookmarking too often from the same IP. First bookmark with proxies enabled, then bookmark without proxies. (Optional: turn off your modem after each run, let it sit unconnected for 20 minutes, then reconnect for the next run. This will, in effect, give you a new IP in the eyes of many bookmarking websites.) 3. Do not bookmark the same URL too often. A general rule of thumb is to wait one month between repeat bookmarking of any URL. 4. Avoid bookmarking all the deep pages of a website in a short period of time. In general bookmark only one deep page from any website per day, and always in a unique run. 5. Stay away from self-promotion. Always contribute links to websites that you don't own. Submit news stories through an RSS feed, and once or twice a week bookmark several nonprofit organization websites.

How to Keep Your Bookmarking Links Indexed in the Search Engines

Bookmarking websites are gaining in popularity. There is no shortage of bookmarking websites at which to gain an anchored back link for any web page. So how do your bookmarks rise above those of your competitors? The more you give authority to your bookmarking site profiles (accounts), the more clout your bookmarking links will have. And the quickest way to channel authority to your profiles is to ping your profiles (always using proxies) after each bookmarking run. Bookmarking Demon collects the successful bookmarking profile URLs from each run and stores them in queue inside the ping tab. You just simply load up ping servers, activate your list of proxy servers and hit the ping start button. Sure, you could submit each profile by hand to each ping server, but who has time for that? You bought Bookmarking Demon to save time, and using its built-in ping function is one of the tasks made easier for you. Very few people understand the importance of pinging their profiles with proxies, so most people are not doing it. Thats all the better for you! Get into the habit of pinging your profiles after each bookmarking session. Bookmarking Coach's Tested Proxies Monthly Subscription assures that you will never run out of green proxies for use while pinging your bookmarking website profiles. Every week receive 50 tested green proxies via email, but pay only $7.00 per MONTH.

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Why Do Some of the Bookmarking Websites Have Registration Disabled?

Unfortunately for all of us, spammers use Bookmaking Demon and other software to leave way too many links way too quickly, causing social bookmarking site webmasters to close down registration. Fortunately, though, many of the webmasters allow active, nonspamming accounts to continue submissions. So these sites remain inside Bookmarking Demon and are useful to all customers who have active accounts at these bookmaking websites. Not to worry, as Edwin keeps on top of things and is always looking for new sites to add. And you can add an unlimited number of bookmaking websites to your own copy of Bookmarking Demon, so the sky's the limit!

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Chapter 8: The SEO Techniques of Bookmarking

Whats Wrong With This Picture?

This is the meta tag information that was downloaded automatically by Bookmarking Demon for the above example website about The Burrito Diet. Title: Lose Weight Now | The Burrito Diet Tags: lose weight, lose weight now, fad diet, fad diets, weight loss diet, healthy diet, low carb diet, diet plans, diet plan, high fiber diet, lose weight, how to lose weight, how to lose weight fast, loose weight, fat loss, lose fat, how to lose belly fat, weight loss, high protein foods, losing weight fast, fast weight loss, easy diets, high protein diet, best way to lose weight, protein diet, weight loss success stories, fastest way to lose weight Description: The Burrito Diet is the fat loss diet that a busy dad used to lose weight without feeling hungry! What's wrong with that picture? The title contains only one keyword, there are too many tags (27!), and there is only one description. Bookmarking Coach 5.5.5 02 March 2011 2011 Diane Sontag Page 74

Here is the same website entered into BMD 5 with full SEO advantage:

Title: Lose Weight, Lose Weight Now, Fad Diet, Fad Diets, Weight Loss Diet, Healthy Diet, Low Carb Diet, Diet Plans, High Fiber Diet, How to Lose Weight, How to Lose Weight Fast, Fat Loss, Lose Fat, How to Lose Belly Fat, Fast Weight Loss, Easy Diets, Best Way to Lose Weight, Protein Diet, Weight Loss Success Stories, Fastest Way to Lose Weight Tags: lose weight, lose weight now, fad diet, fad diets, weight loss diet, healthy diet, low carb diet, diet plans, high fiber diet, how to lose weight, how to lose weight fast, fat loss, lose fat, how to lose belly fat, fast weight loss, easy diets, best way to lose weight, protein diet, weight loss success stories, fastest way to lose weight Description: The Burrito Diet is the fat loss diet that a busy dad used to lose weight without feeling hungry!#break#Lose weight without feeling hungry by following the Burrito Diet.#break#If you want to lose weight but not feel hungry then follow the Burrito Diet. #break#On the Burrito Diet you will lose weight without feeling hungry.#break#The Burrito Diet helps you lose weight without feeling hungry.

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Building Search Engine Optimization Into Your Submissions

1. Title does not mean the title of your website. Title means keywords and keyword phrases, separated by commas 2. Tags are not general topic words. Tags are your exact same keywords and keyword phrases which you used for your titles, but without capitalization 3. Create one description for every five keyword phrases used. In the optimized example above, the webmaster is seeking to rank for 20 keywords/keyword phrases. So the minimum number of descriptions to keep randomization at its best would be four. Each description need be only one sentence long.

A Link is a Link
Somewhere in your research on how to increase traffic to your website you have probably encountered the idea that only Do Follow links are worth obtaining. All links are beneficial to your website, even the No Follow links. Why is that? 1. Bots travel so fast that even no follow links occasionally get followed by Google. 2. Other search engines pay no heed to the follow/no follow attribute 3. It would look unnatural for any website to have ONLY do follow links pointing to it, and might raise red flags to Google. So get a variety of links, from as many internet resources as you have time for.

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Chapter 9: Why You Need to Bookmark Your URLs Monthly

An automated bookmarking tool such as Bookmarking Demon creates links which are only as good as the bookmarking websites themselves. Unfortunately, many of these links you gain for your URLs are not 'set and forget' links. And here are some reasons why: 1. Most bookmarking sites you find through searching the internet are using the default settings. The default settings can create very short-lived bookmarks. For example, a scuttle site installed as is will give a link to a web page for only two weeks. 2. A pligg site installed as is, even though labeled as DO FOLLOW in Bookmarking Demon, will give do follow status only to published stories, which requires voting. Most pligg web sites have pages and pages of upcoming stories, and all these links are no follow. And in most cases, the links given to the published pligg stories are indirect links. 3. One phpdug template gives a link at the voting button, rather than a keyword-anchored link. 4. Many bookmarking site owners do not know how to fix their own mysql database errors as needed, so many bookmarking sites will be unavailable from time to time. 5. More and more main bookmarking sites are putting on popup ads in an attempt to stop automatic bookmarking submissions to their sites. Some scuttle and pligg sites are also starting to do this. So you will get a lot of failures in your bookmarking. 6. Webmasters think they will get rich with ads placed on bookmarking sites. Most do not, and once they realize this they will take down the site. So you need to be adding new bookmarking sites to your Bookmarking Demon, either sites you find or sites you build yourself.

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A phpdug site giving a link from a voting button

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This site gives a link from the voting button! But a link is a link!

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A do follow bookmarking site with indirect links

The dofollow anchors are inside the titles, but they are indirect. When you click on the titles, you stay at the bookmarking site. But a link is still a link!

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A site with direct, dofollow, keyword-anchored links

These are the kind of links every bookmarker dreams of getting. Both the title and url point directly to an external site your site.

Keyword link

URL link

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Chapter 10: Resources for Bookmarking

Tools for you from Bookmarking Coach Bookmarking Demon Tested Proxies Subscription assures that you will never run out of green proxies for use while bookmarking your URLs and pinging your bookmarking website profiles. Every week receive 50 tested proxies via email, but pay only $7.00 per MONTH. Note: also work inside of Article Demon Private Coaching paypal $50 to dianesontag@zoomtown.com Mon, Wed, Fri 10am Noon 2pm Please reserve 48 hrs in advance and send me your skype name or land line number to use

Follow Bookmarking Coach at Twitter: http://twitter.com/bookmarkcoach

Follow me at Twitter I am bookmarkcoach

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Products Offered by Diane Sontag Bookmarking Demon Tested Proxies Subscription assures that you will never run out of green proxies for use while bookmarking your URLs and pinging your bookmarking website profiles. Every week receive 50 tested proxies via email, but pay only $7.00 per MONTH. Note: also work inside of Article Demon Private Coaching paypal $50 to dianesontag@zoomtown.com Mon, Wed, Fri 10am Noon 2pm Please reserve 48 hrs in advance and send me your skype name or land line number to use Products Recommended by Bookmarking Coach Article Demon for automated article submission Submit Eaze for automated directory submission Market Samurai for keyword research The Keyword Academy for basic internet marketing methods that really work GoDaddy for domain registration HostGator for website hosting RoboForm for password management and form filling

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How to Quickly Determine Your BMD Version Number

Switch from expert mode to beginner mode, and the version number is revealed. Then switch back to expert mode.

BMD Version 5.5.3.1

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Chapter 11: Upgrading Bookmarking Demon to Newest Version

Download, unzip, open the folder and click on .exe
Go find your original BMD.exe and make a note of that location on your computer. Is it in Program Files? Is it in a folder called Downloads? It doesn't matter where it is, just make sure you know where it is. Here is a screen shot of a successful extraction: 1. Download and Unzip 2. Open Folder

3. Click on .exe to extract

4. Extract to same location where you keep your original BMD

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Press yes to start the upgraded version.

Happy Bookmarking from Bookmarking Coach!

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Chapter 12: Change Log

09 March 2011 Version 5.5.5
Increased Main Bookmarking Randomization RSS feeds to 2 to 3 see page 36 Added screen shot of Main Bookmarking Queue page 37 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

02 March 2011 Version 5.5.5

Added screen shot of adding huge list of bookmarking sites to your BMD Corrected typo on page 14, list item #8 - Disable proxies changed to Enable proxies Added new ebook cover image to first page and got rid of ugly Word Art Added screen shots of using the right-click method to assign a category to a site Added page about verifying email servers prior to using email for account creation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

22 February 2011 Version 5.5.5

Added screen shots of new support system registration and ticket creation Added screen shot of newly-added social bookmarking sites ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

04 February 2011 Version 5.5.5

Changed account creation instructions to recommend creating account without proxies Added screen shot showing anti-bot activated during bookmarking Added organizational page about the four sections of a bookmarking run Added page about using projects Added note to turn proxies off during loading of bookmarking queue for Main sites Added explanation for sites no longer having registration open but still included in Bookmarking Demon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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28 January 2011 Version 5.5.5

Bookmarking Demon Toolbox is being discontinued. In its place, I have added extra pages to Chapter One of the manual. These pages explain how to find RSS feeds and Ping Servers to use in Bookmarking Demon.

10 November 2010 Version 5.5

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22 January 2011 Version 5.5.5

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30 December 2010 Version 5.5.4

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24 November 2010 version 5.5.3

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12 March 2010 Version 5.4

Bookmaking-buddy.com publishes this edition, 8 chapters, 28 pages, $25 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

22 January 2010 Version 5.2

Bookmarkingbuddy.info publishes first edition of Bookmarking Optimization Manual: price is $20, 8 chapters, 25 pages

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