Today’s lesson is focused on setting up the Preferences in BookmarkingDemon5. Yes, the preferences is a place that can easily be overlooked. Personally, I think it is the heart of the software and it is very important if you want to make the most out of the tool.
Preferences, It’s Huge…
Preferences is a huge topic and I’ve decided to split Lesson #1 into 3 parts, namely:
- Lesson #1 Part 1: Setting Up Performance Preferences
- Lesson #1 Part 2: Setting Up Randomization Preferences
- Lesson #1 Part 3: Setting Up Connection, Miscellaneous and Visual Aid Preferences
This way there won’t be an information overload and it’s a lot easier to digest.
The Preferences screen will default to the Performance tab. This tab is the place where you setup the performance of your submission tasks. I’ll breakup this screen into smaller parts to explain further below.
The above setting is also what is commonly known as threads. It tell BMD that I want to submit 40 bookmarks concurrently.
Purpose: Our computers are of different technical specifications, this allows people with slower computers to configure the number of bookmarks to submit.
Personally I find a setting of 20 has the best user experience. You don’t get that freezing and resuming a few seconds later frequently.
This is where you can emulate a human submission by instructing BookmarkingDemon5 to wait for 10 to 15 seconds between each submission to bookmarking site.
Purpose: We are humans. It is not possible for us to submit 50 bookmarks within seconds. Bookmarking sites that implement speed detectors will easily find out that the submissions are performed by bots and not real people.
With this setting, it makes thing look natural.
This tells BookmarkingDemon5 to wait for 120 seconds before giving up a submission task to each site. It is also commonly known as timeout.
Purpose: This is especially useful if the site is full of content and takes a long time to load (usually due to load). Also, if you are using a proxy that is overloaded, the page takes longer than usual to load.
This option allows us to tell BookmarkingDemon5 to wait a while longer before giving up.
I would prefer a setting of 180 seconds as from experience, sites like Indianpad.com tend to take longer time for a page to load.
This is pretty straight-forward. It says people with frequent connection problem, turn this on. For me, I have it turned on as default.
This is the limit setting to tell BookmarkingDemon5 what’s the maximum number of bookmarks to submit for each bookmarking run.
Purpose: This is for people with lower computer specifications to adjust the number of bookmarks to submit accordingly.
Tip: People with lower computer specifications can submit a lower number of bookmarks in each bookmarking run, and split your bookmarking runs into small batches.
This tells BookmarkingDemon5 how many bookmarks to generate each time you hit “Add My Web Pages To Queue”.
Purpose: This is also for people with lower computer specifications to bookmark more efficiently after adjustment.
Tip: People with lower computer specifications can generate a smaller number of bookmarks in the bookmarking queue and bookmark in small batches.The option “auto-start bookmark after queue is generate” basically tells BookmarkingDemon5 to start bookmarking after you hit “Add My Web Pages To Queue” without requiring you to hit the “Start” button.
This is especially useful if you have a lot of items to generate for the queue and you do not want to wait for it to finish before you can start the submission.
With this, you just let it generate the queue and you can use your time on more productive stuff.
This is to tell BookmarkingDemon5 to pick the first available category from the bookmarking site. Click on the “?” icon and it says:
Some bookmarking sites require you to enter a category for your bookmark. Check this if you do not want to specify any category and accuracy of category is not important to you.
WARNING: Enabling this might get your accounts banned.
Purpose: Well. This is to give convenience to lazy people who don’t want to specify the proper category to bookmark to. Notice it says “not recommended”? I will not recommend this too.
A pancake recipe bookmark might end up in “pets” category. It look spammy. Site owners don’t like it and it look irrelevant when search engine crawls it.
It is like having a chicken in a duck farm. You know what I mean?
First, let me tell you what Anti-Bot is. You can click on the “?” icon to get the answer though. It says
Anti-bot prevents the same account from submitting multiple bookmarks to the same bookmarking site at the same time.
WARNING: Disabling this might get your accounts banned.
The Anti-bot will be activated during bookmarking if BookmarkingDemon5 finds that you are submitting more than 1 bookmark using the same account on the same bookmarking site. BookmarkingDemon5 will intelligently throttle to only submit 1 bookmark a time.
Purpose: Basically, there is no way for the same person to be submitting more than 1 bookmark at the same time.
If you do that, you will easily raise a red flag to the bookmarking sites and get your accounts banned.
This option takes effect when you are generating your bookmarking queue.
The option “1 bookmark per account (Prevent triggering of Anti-Bot)” is to prevent submitting more than 1 bookmark using the same account on the same bookmarking site. Enabling this option, and click on “Add My Web Pages To Queue” will generate only one bookmark per account.
Purpose: This effectively prevents more than 1 bookmark to be generated in the bookmarking queue for the same account on the same bookmarking site. This way, it also prevents your accounts being banned as your bookmarking will sure look more natural to the bookmarking sites.
Enabling the option “1 bookmark per site (Minimize the chance of accounts banning due to submission from same IP address)”, and click on “Add My Web Pages To Queue” will generate only one bookmark per site.
Purpose: This option is especially useful for people bookmarking without proxy servers. This way bookmarking sites will not see that you are bookmarking 100 URLs using the same IP address and ban your accounts.
However, this is only true if you spread out your submissions. So remember to spread out your bookmarks like how you would spread the butter on your bread. 
Enabling this option tells BookmarkingDemon5 to interrupt a bookmark submission in the bookmarking queue that has captcha during bookmarking. BMD5 will skip the bookmark and proceed to the next bookmark.
Purpose: This is especially useful for users with self-added sites that requires CAPTCHA during bookmarking, and they do not use Visual Aid.
Let me give you a scenario to illustrate the usage:
There is a user, Mousie, with a lot of bookmarks added into the queue. He doesn’t want to use Visual Aid and he doesn’t want to enter the captchas.
So what does he do? Mousie decides to turn on this option “If a site is detected to require CAPTCHA input during submission, I want to skip to the next task” under Preferences and start his bookmark submission.
This is what happens when the submitter kicks off:
- BookmarkingDemon5 will detect that there are sites that require CAPTCHA during bookmarking.
- BookmarkingDemon5 also detects that Mousie has no Visual Aid turned on.
- BUT! Because Mousie turned on the option above, BookmarkingDemon5 will now skip this bookmark and proceed to bookmark the next item in the queue.
Mousie does not have to sit in front of his computer and wait for captcha input! He can proceed to work on more important things! Boy I can imagine how happy he would be. Ha.
“I want to retry X times before giving up a scheduled task.” option instructs BookmarkingDemon5 to try X times before giving up on a scheduled task.
Purpose: This is especially useful if the schedule is bookmarking to a site that is full of content and takes a long time to load. Also, if you are using a proxy that is overloaded, the page takes longer than usual to load. This option allows us to tell BookmarkingDemon5 to try again before giving up.
The option “I will wait for X minutes before retrying.” is the amount of waiting time before each retry performed by the Scheduler.
Purpose: It don’t make sense for the Scheduler to retry bookmarking to the same site immediately especially if the site is overloaded. So, this option helps.
You do not want ping server to ban your URL from future submission. So it is good to have a delay between each ping time.
My preference is to set the waiting time between each ping to wait between 1 to 1 minute.
Alright, it’s been a long post and let’s end this lesson here. I hope it has been useful to you.
Stay tuned for the next lesson, Lesson #1 Part 2: Setting up Randomization Preferences.
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