10/4/2009
Bookmarking Demon - An Elite Social Bookmarking Program or is it just Losing its Place Between the Pages?
Put this one in the "Books"...the review books that is. We (Wired Intel) recently completed a 4 week test run on "Bookmarking Demon" - A program designed to provide its users with a quick and efficient way to backlink their blogs or websites with social networking websites such as My Space and Facebook. Since we stepped into the realm of website functionality with this review, we called in the experts and our partners at Websynopsis to help us compare Bookmarking Demon and the results we received from the software with backlinking and social bookmarking alternatives.
Demonizing the directions...
As always, Wired Intel followed the set up and user directions of the program word for word to avoid biased results. We had to work extra hard to make sure that this did not happen because the directions on how to begin using the program weren't the most user friendly. From past experience our team of web developers and programmers were able to fill in the blanks to get the program to perform as the directions intended. User friendly directions can often be a fatal flaw of new programs and software because so much emphasis is placed on the design and functionality that the developer forgets that not all users have a background in programming. Ok so we had some trouble with launching Bookmarking Demon, since this can be common with new programs we were willing to overlook it and focus on the actual performance of the program....
"Bookmarks" are stuck between the pages...
Doing some behind the scenes coding, we were able to track the performance of the software and its ability to backlink us to social networking websites. At first sight everything seemed to be an ALL GO! - We tracked the placement of our test site links to their intended social network. Within the process however, a few links were not picked up and a few more failed to connect with other social networking websites. Remaining positive, we tracked and monitored the results for 4 weeks. I would like to say that some missed links and a few failed connections were the only problems however, our results showed one other flaw in the program that occurred at the end of testing. The Bookmarking Demon program is designed to automatically update with changing registration procedures on all of the social networks that it supports. This didn't exactly happen as 3 sites that had changed their registration verification procedures were left out of the 2nd round of bookmarking services. After some digging around the internet we found that this could be a reoccurring problem as it was reported on "The Blog Entrepreneur" (an outstanding and Websynopsis recommended website for blog reviews) If you're searching for a silver lining, it would be that the program did backlink our test site to a handful of other social networks... other than the ones that were missed, failed to connect and were left out from the 2nd go around...maybe more of a tarnished silver lining but it's something.
Websynopsis weighs in with final thoughts and results...
Websynopsis, our new partners and absolute experts of website research, provided their final thoughts to conclude our testing of the Bookmarking Demon program. After comparing the performance results of the Bookmarking Demon program with free social bookmarking, backlinking, and alternative SEO services; Websynopsis found both to be very equal and in 2 cases the free services found around the internet outperformed the results found from the social bookmarking software. Websynopsis advised us that many of the things found in the programming of the Bookmarking Demon software can be achieved through free bookmarking services across the web. They also compared the functions to that of an established RSS feed, which just about anyone can create for free simply by searching the web. Overall the best thing about Bookmarking Demon is that it saves time (if you have some experience with SEO linking and some html knowledge to help you set up the program). It takes the time out of searching for free bookmarking services and for a small cost can do just about the same thing + a few missed things.
