In the first lesson, I’ve walked through the Performance settings of BMD’s Preferences. Today, I’ll show you how to make use of the Randomization settings in BookmarkingDemon 5 to make your bookmark submissions look natural to bookmarking sites.

Basically the randomization screen is made up of various settings for bookmarks, the content to be bookmarked with, and also the RSS Camouflage.

As usual, I will break up the screen into parts for easy illustrations.

Randomization Settings for Web Pages

Turn this option “I want to randomly pick my web pages for bookmark submission, and the following is how I want it to be randomized” on to tell BookmarkingDemon how you want your web pages to be selected into the bookmark submission queue.

The 3 options could look intimidating so I will give a little explanation on what each of them really means.

For each web page, it will have X to Y % chance to be selected for bookmark submission.

What happens over here is that for each web page, with the above setting of 25% to 25%, it will have 25% chance of getting picked for addition into the submission queue. So if I have 3 web pages under “My Web Pages”, all of them selected for queue selection, each of the web pages will have a 25% chance of getting picked into the queue.

Important: Using this randomization setting might end up with zero web pages added into the queue as each web pages are re-rolled for the queue.

P.S. I believe this is one of the very common reason why people in forums are complaining that no web pages are added into the queue when they hit the “Add My Web Pages to Queue” button.

I want to randomly pick between X to Y % of my web pages for bookmark submission.

I will illustrate with an example.

• • I have 100 web pages stored under “My Web Pages”
  • All of them are selected
  • I have the above setting set to 50 to 75% chance

With the above, what happens is that BookmarkingDemon will randomly pick between 50 to 75 web pages and add them into the queue for each bookmarking site.

I want to randomly pick between X to Y of my web pages for bookmark submission.

Very similar to the above setting, I will also illustrate with an example for clarity sake.

• • I have 100 web pages stored under “My Web Pages”
  • All of them are selected
  • I have the above setting set to 3 to 5

Now BMD5 will be randomly picking only 3 to 5 web pages and add them into the queue for each bookmarking site.

There is no hard and fast rule on which work best but it certainly make things look very random when you choose a small number as your setting.

Depending on needs and preferences, personally, I prefer to use the third option at 1 to 3 web pages. Coupled with the Spammometer + RSS Camouflage for my submissions.

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For this option, I’ll illustrate with an example.

“A 10-min Chocolate Pancake Recipe, A Quick Whip-up Chocolaty Pancake”

If you have this option turned on, BookmarkingDemon will break up the above into 2 titles, and randomly picks one (E.g. “A Quick Whip-up Choclaty Pancake”) for submission.

Purpose: This allows you to key in a few titles that will be randomly picked by BookmarkingDemon to submit to a list of selected sites. With more comma-separated titles specified will mean each bookmark submitted will probably contain different titles. This will make your bookmark submissions look random and natural.

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Turning this option on will instruct BookmarkingDemon to pick the specified percentage of tags for each web page to be submitted.

For example:

• I have a list of tags “cheese cake, cake, ice cream cake”
• I have the option set to 50 – 75% tags to be picked for bookmark

When BookmarkingDemon generate the submission queue, it will randomly pick between 2 to 3 tags from the above (E.g. “cheese cake, cake”) for submission.

Tip: From my personal experience, avoid having too many tags. 3 to 4 tags provide the highest success rate during submission. There are too many sites out there that simply don’t like a bookmark with too many tags in it. Especially Pligg sites.

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This will instruct BookmarkingDemon to shuffle your bookmarks X number of times before they are sent to the submitter for bookmark submission. This is the same as you shuffle a deck of cards before starting a card game. For the ultra paranoid, you can set it to 3.

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RSS Camouflage

Like the chameleon that changes colors to camouflage itself for survival in the wild, we need to camouflage our bookmarks too.

This is the place where you can enable RSS Camouflage feature in BookmarkingDemon. It allows you to specify a list of RSS feeds which will be mixed into your bookmarking queue when you hit the “Add My Web Pages to Queue”.

The steps are:

1. Tick “I want to enable RSS camouflage and pick between 1 to 3 RSS feed for each web page submitted for bookmarking.”
2. Enter a list of RSS feeds that you have. It can be from anywhere. Blogs or NEWS sites and etc.

Later on, when you hit “Add Web Pages To Queue” at the “Bookmarking” section to generate your bookmarking queue, these RSS feeds will first be read into BMD, then randomly picked and mixed into your list of bookmarks.

There is a note “With RSS camouflage disabled, all crawled RSS feeds will be treated like normal web pages.”.

Purpose: If you have this RSS Camouflage option turned off, and used the RSS Crawler at the “My Web Pages” section to crawl and add your RSS feeds into the list of webpages, BookmarkingDemon will treat the list of webpages as normal web pages.

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Alright. I am done with setting up the Randomization Preferences.

We’ll wrap up Lesson 1 in my next post on setting up Preferences. Stay tuned to Lesson #1 Part 3: Setting Up Connection, Miscellaneous and Visual Aid Preferences

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