I’ve been using Social Submitter and Bookmarking Demon for about six months now. Thought I would share some of my thoughts on both, since Perry Belcher mentioned them in the Social Bookmarking Module of the Social Media Money System.

Bookmarking Demon

Positives

• Sets up accounts automatically
• Randomly selects accounts to submit (if you have multiple accounts for each site)
• Can include RSS feeds automatically from other sites so content isn’t all from one site/on one topic!
• Can increase time between submissions and sites, so ‘posting’ appears more natural
• Can easily post from proxy servers
• Free updates
• Lots of settings can be altered (including percentage of tags used)
• Can (and suggested to) submit multiple articles as once

Negatives

• Doesn’t give ranking of sites
• Doesn’t have some top social bookmarking sites (although this should be remedied in BMD 5 coming soon)
• Software not updated very often (I’ve had one in six months)

Social Submitter

Positives

• All sites ranked (so you know which sites to really focus on or follow up if submission fails)
• Updated every week or two (new sites added, old removed, program updated)
• Has many. many times more sites than Bookmarking Demon
• Has many non-english sites
• Submits very quickly (all sites within minutes)

Negatives

• Doesn’t set up accounts automatically (but you can buy set up accounts relatively cheaply!)
• Can only submit one article per run.
• Not very flexible in terms of settings

Tips for both of these programs

• Don’t worry about getting 100% submission to all sites. there is a number of reasons sites may reject articles;

1. If they have already been submitted,

2. There are very similar to existing articles

3. You have reached the quota for submission to that website (usually daily but some are up to 72 hours!)

• Take a few hours and watch the demo videos (they both have great ones), it will make your time much more efficient.
• Use the {} and | symbols to give multiple options for words, thus making the articles look different between sites. Here’s an example that I use on my Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite. Whenever I write an article instead of typing Gordon Ramsay ….. in the title, I post the following {Gordon Ramsay|Gordon Ramsey|Chef Gordon Ramsay|Chef Gordon Ramsey|Chef Ramsay|Chef Ramsey} – which gives me six different potential titles. I try to do this for most main words (sometimes using a thesaurus) and can often submit the same article and link to the bookmarking sites multiple times!

To be honest, I use both – either way, but them via credit card and you effectively get a 30 day trial! You can get the latest version Social Submitter from this link and Bookmarking Demon from this link.

Enjoy

David Driscoll

www.david-driscoll.com

twitter.com/davidmdriscoll

If you don’t know what PageRank (PR) is, here is what Wikipedia defines it as “a numerical weighting … with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance”. In other words, the higher the better! Here are the top ranking sites according to social submitter and their associated ranks!

Slashdot – 9 – http://slashdot.org
Delicious – 8 – http://delicious.com
Reddit – 8 – http://www.reddit.com
Mixx – 8 – http://www.mixx.com
2Collab – 8 – http://www.2collab.com
Digg – 8 – http://www.digg.com

Best of Luck

David Driscoll

www.twitter.com/davidmdriscoll

Welcome – click on this link to my forums,

1. Register (porn spam has killed my Gordon Ramsay Fansite and Polar Bear Forums!)

2. Add a post including the link to your article and twitter handle and facebook page (hopefully you have the ‘Share and Enjoy’ Social Media Buttons)

3. Follow some of the links and Bookmark some of your fellow SMMSers stories – the community effort will help all of us. (If you start with my first post – that would be awesome)

Thanks guys – if anyone else wants to chat about their expereinces, I’ve also set up section for us to discuss things, feel free to join in and best of luck in your personal venture!

David Driscoll

twitter.com/davidmdriscoll

www.david-driscoll.com