Ultrabookmarker is a monthly subscription package, currently costing $20, It may be that the price increases for new subs at some time in the future and that Wendy Woudstra grandfathers in the existing users at the old price - that is pretty normal. There are quite a few bookmarking sites included with the program but some appear to be used almost exclusively by Ultrabookmarker users, this is not, in and of itself, a bad thing as long as the sites are getting spidered.
Of course most of the biggies are there.
A nice touch is the auto account setup, this makes life for webmasters and marketers much easier. Some bookmarking sites have captchas and of course most sites want you to verify the membership. It took perhaps ten minutes to log and do all the applications.
When you have registered you can start to submit sites. Unlike SocialBot there is no spidering system - this is a big bummer. But the system picks up the metadata from any URL that one puts into the system. If this does not happen then check that your site’s metatags are correctly written.
One can cut and paste a list of URLs (and metadata) or import them as Excel/CSV files. There are settings to allow for delays between posts so that one does not appear too spammy.
The submission process seems rapid and effective, no hitches, each URL seems to take a little over two minutes to be submitted to all the sites. If one has more URLs and a speedier solution is sought then it is possible to submit to fewer sites, whilst still getting the pages in front of viewers and search engines.
The system is updated quite regularly with new sites and according to the blog there are some interesting things coming along to help with functionality
Oh, nearly forgot, the system allows and makes it easy to have multiple accounts and to use a proxy server. This is very cool. A concern of bookmarkers is that an account or ip address can become associated with spam links and be banned. The ability to use proxies means that banning will not permanently cease the activity of bookmarking.
This is, for me, a preliminary reading of the software. IMHO if you have a low number of sites/pages to index this is great as it is, try it and see if you like it - for $20 for a month you won’t go wrong.
If you have a lot of pages then the choice is less clear cut. One needs to be able to have a list of URLs, if your sitemaps have a URL list then no worries, if you have good meta tags then this is going to help the automation.
Given the way in which Ultrabookmarker makes submissions one could probably get away with a generic description of the pages and use the same tags for all the pages in a site, relying upon the page name to differentiate. Of course given the Excel/CSV capability there are all sorts of ways to manipulate the data before you pass it to Ultrabookmarker.
If you need to generate URL lists then look at this site: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ they will make text URLs of your sites for free - but no metadata.
Conclusion - for $20 a month Ultrabookmarker is well worth a look. It will not take many extra clicks for the cost to be amortized. Other systems are VASTLY more expensive than this and charge extra for the signup functions. If I were to buy one tool today, I think I’d go for Ultrabookmarker. I already have Socialbot and like it. But this is a subscription so one can use this one and wait and see. Socialbot will be almost $100 when it comes out again.