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Thanks for the tip about bookmarkwiz. I will look at it and maybe flip a coin between it and BM5 if I’m still on the fence…

To be honest Stacey, from the little amount I toyed around with BMD 5, you may want to hold out until they make some updates for it. When I tried BMD 5 I was unable to load my profile accounts from BMD 4 which means I would then have to go through and create new accounts. When I tried to create new accounts as instructed in the manual, none of the automation for the account registrations were working. They all kept timing out. I read that some people have said that they had to register the accounts to every site by hand which obviously can take hours.

Zaheer is correct with BMD 4 being a really great product. That is the version I am using since I am all set up for it. It just really annoys me that they have not made a way for the BMD 4 accounts to be able to be loaded into BMD 5 even though the manual states it is possible. I did have success copying and pasting 1 BMD account profile into BMD 5′s account profile setups but the annoying thing is I would have to copy and past the profile information for every new site and for each account so it’s just as bad as registering new accounts all over again. I have yet to read where someone had success loading their BMD 4 account’s file into BMD 5. Some people spent a good chunk of money on already created accounts for their BMD 4 so I can see why they would just stick with using 4 still.

One thing I have seen with BMD 5 is that there are more sites that you can bookmark. Quite a bit more actually. So if you don’t mind the initial pain in the butt of account set up/registration with all those sites (which I did have to do that with my BMD 4 to get set up to use it) then it is worth the investment.

Also, if you own Roboform, you can definitely speed up the process of registering for each bookmarking site much faster with that. I actually did have Roboform when I first got BMD 4 and it probably took me about 6-8 hours to register 4 different account profiles for all the bookmarking sites in BMD4.

Edwin does offer 60 day a money back guarantee and he definitely honors it so at the very least, you can try it out for yourself.

I seriously think I was only able to pop out so many sites due to outsourcing my content. Each week I have writers writing the content for about 4 new xfactor sites. So I buy the name, make a list of content I need outsourced with my OneNote to keep track and then I assign a writer 10 articles to write for me (5 with the keywords for one new xfactor site and another 5 for a 2nd xfactor site.)

Also I do know what you mean about the domain hoarders. I did register one domain with an add on word to it and it is no where showing up in the SERPs so I now only buy the exact keywords in the .com/.net/.org are available. If not, then I move on to another keyword or niche.

BMD 4 was actually pretty good, its not particularly intuitive like any Microsoft product and there is a learning curve but it can be quite useful. Ive had BMD 4 for about 6-7 months and never really harnessed its full potential but am starting to see backlinks appear like after a few months which is good.

I’ev also read that BMD 5 is quite clunky and not really worth the money although it does look pretty impressive. Was reading this from existing users so decided NOT to install Version 5 which is a free upgrade.

What I did read however was that there is another product on the market called BookmarkWiz which apparently is supposed to be excellent. It only targets the top 25 social bookmarking sites and thats it. Unlike BMD where you can add as many scuttle and pligg sites as you like.

It does look promising but again don’t really want to spend any more money on software unless someone can prove this actually works!

Zaheer

I think we may have to call you Sara XFactor soon at the rate you’re going…lol, this time next year I think you’ll be eleasing your course from 0 to $5k per month, don’t forget my discount rate…lol

Seriously, I’m actually really excited for you cos I soooooo want those sites to start kicking in as soon as. they have the potential to earn thousands per month. Are your niches ones which you know anythign about or just taking a punt at them?

You know the one thing that’s really annoying about this xfactor thing is the scarcity of the domain names. If I can’t get the dot com/net/org, I pass up the keyword phrase. Unfortunately, a great deal of these juicy long tails no longer have their domains available. That’s fine – first come first served. But the maddening thing is that whoever those guys are that bought the names haven’t done squat with them since the beginning of August, sometimes earlier. I mean, c’mon, you get the sneaking suspicion that the domain purchases are xfactor-inspired, but hey they should turn them into sites, and not just hoard them…

Oh well, I’m venting. As you may have guessed by now, I ran into too many of those scenarios today. Anyway, congrats again. 14 in 26 !

Oh yeah, Sara, quick question about bookmarking demon, if you don’t mind so much. I think you’re using this right? I was looking into getting it, but was warned by some friends that version 5 is rather junky. Are they just pulling my leg?

For competition I pretty much look and see if there are PR0-3 in the first 5 spots. If I see more than 1 PR4+ then I forget it.

I was targeting keywords that had 1500+ but I was primarily concerned with CPC. If I found a CPC of $10-17 but only had 1500 monthly searches, I would go after it because even if I would get less traffic, the higher clicks would be worth it. But now I am targeting 2900+ only. I am going to try that for my next few sites and see if things improve.

All of my sites are indexed now except for #14 which I just built yesterday and #15 that I did today.