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Social Bookmarking Your Site For A Massive Jump in Search Engine Rankings and … why you should use Bookmarking Demon Software

As part of an overall strategy  to build links to your website, in turn getting higher search engine rankings (and therefore more traffic), social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Mr Wong, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Propeller and so on simply cannot be ignored: they have very high Page Rank (PR) and are indexed by the major search engines every few hours. You may have noticed when you do a Google search that results from these bookmarking sites show up with increasing frequency…

Let’s say that you open an account at Digg.com. You bookmark all of the pages from your site, choosing your target keywords (your ‘anchor text’) as your bookmark titles. Each of these bookmarks will appear on Digg.com as having 1 ‘dig’ or vote. There you go, you’ve got a good solid anchor-text link from Dig.com to your target website, one to each website page, links that will very quickly be picked up by the search engines and counted in their calculations to rank your site. The higher your websites’ rank the more (targeted) traffic you should get, so it stands to reason that you should be using a bookmarking strategy to get your site more traffic.

The first thing you can do is open an account at socialmarker.com. Then you go and open account at several bookmarking services and use Socialmarker.com as a tool to ‘semi’ automate your bookmarking. With a couple of hours work you can gain several dozen back-links to your website, FREE OF CHARGE and many will also carry the ‘do-follow’ tag, meaning that Google assigns maximum ‘juice’ to these links.

You can also get the free browser toolbar from onlywire.com, this can allow you to bookmark with 20 or so top bookmarking sites with a couple of clicks. This is a great little tool and the paid version (about $40 per annum) is pretty good value.

Yes, it’s a couple of hours work for each of your websites but it needs to be done! The problem now is, if you want more links from social bookmarking sites, then you have to open another bookmarking account with all of the social bookmarking providers using a different email address and different log-in information. To open a hundred accounts (yes there are at least that many popular, high PR rank bookmarking sites), well, you can see how this could become very time consuming but believe me, if this was the only method that you had at your disposal to build links, you would see massive, positive results very quickly.

As your site gets another ‘vote’ at each bookmarking service, it moves up in their internal rankings meaning that as users search within the bookmarks for recommendations from other users, rather than use a traditional search on say Google or Bing, your site may even start to get traffic from the bookmarking service itself as well as from higher search engine ranking positions (‘SERPS’).

Like I said this can be VERY time consuming and for the past few years many automated and semi-automated services and software solutions have arrived, the most effective and best of them all being the Bookmarking Demon software from Edwinsoft (BMD). Yes there are a few other packages of SEO tools offering bookmarking as a module, Miracle Traffic Bot and Magic Submitter to name just two (which I also use extensively!) , but BMD is the one dedicated to automated bookmarking.

I bought BMD back at the start of 2009 and it is still the top selling bookmarking software at the time of writing (June 2010) and deservedly so. At first I would use the software to automatically open bookmarking accounts, load up my web pages and leave BMD running in the background  all day every day. It wasn’t long before I was getting ‘some’ traffic  and sure enough I started getting ‘some’ movement in my SERPS. Disappointment set in, I tried searching the internet to see what other users were doing different to get better results but alas it took several hours of trial and error, waiting weeks and weeks to see the outcomes, before I found out how to get the maximum out of the Bookmarking Demon Software.

All I can say here is that the trick –and people are charging $30 to $50 for this one piece of information – is not to bookmark your whole site over and over; instead sign up for 20 or so email addresses from Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. Put all of these new profiles on an excel file and import it into BMD. Then use the software to create accounts, load a FEW pages from your site – the best pages – and let BMD go nuts bookmarking your site. Then do the same again every month or so and sit down for a couple of hours bookmarking through BMD the sites requiring CATPCHA input.

It is easy to use? Yes. Does it deserve it’s place as the ‘Daddy’ of all bookmarking software? Yes again. Is it worth the price tag ($149 to $199)? Absolutely. Does it work as promised? Yes, if you use it right. If I could only have one SEO tool to promote my sites, this would be it, without question.

Summary. If you want to see your site climb higher in the search engines, get more traffic than ever before, show off your SEO acumen to clients with real world results, then you simply have to own a copy of Bookmarking Demon. Doing SEO without it is like being a mechanic without a wrench – or a graphic designer without Photoshop. It is simply an essential tool and until something better comes along, the only serious choice.

p.s. please leave a comment with your own experiences of using BMD or any questions you may have. Finally, don’t forget to mutiple bookmark my whole site with your copy of BMD – and I will do the same for you!

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