OnlyWire: One BookMarklet To Rule Them All

March 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I read about OnlyWire yesterday on gHacks and OneTipADay. OnlyWire is a social bookmarking aggregator. Once you’ve registered with OnlyWire and installed their bookmarklet in your browser, it can be used to submit your favourite posts to 15 bookmarking sites in one go.

I’m thinking of following Martin’s lead and using OnlyWire to submit my best posts to bookmarking sites. As with Technorati, the benefits of doing this sometimes isn’t about getting tonnes of traffic. It’s about getting your content in front of the right people i.e. fellow bloggers who may then link to your post.

Click here to give OnlyWire a whirl. Let me know if you see any additional traffic from using the service.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by skarld on 14 March 2007:

    Unless things have changed, OnlyWire was not as easy as registering with them and cutting loose with the social bookmarks. You had to be registered with each of the Social Bookmarking Sites that you want to use first. So it takes a little time to get started, but works well after that. I believe there is an API as well, so you can really go crazy if you want.

    I have not seen these bookmarks appear as backlinks in Google but they do appear in “contain the term” indexes.

  2. #2

    Comment by Broc on 14 March 2007:

    this doesnt have to do with your post
    but im interested in knowing whether or not your email thing instead of commenting is effect
    and if it is effect, what is it effect in doing?

  3. #3

    Comment by Everton on 14 March 2007:

    Don’t understand Broc. Can you please use the forum for unrelated comments rather than random post threads.

  4. #4

    Comment by engtech on 14 March 2007:

    Yup, you have to have accounts on all the services.

    Also, onlywire spams the accounts when you sign up for them.

    That’s onlywire’s business model. They let people buy links to their services.

    I’ve never seen traffic from using this directly, but it’s hard to know how it contributes to search engine rankings.

    When was the last time you looked up something that was saved by one person only on a social bookmarking site?

  5. #5

    Comment by Everton on 14 March 2007:

    Also, onlywire spams the accounts when you sign up for them.

    That’s onlywire’s business model. They let people buy links to their services.

    They post links to my bookmarking accounts?

    When was the last time you looked up something that was saved by one person only on a social bookmarking site?

    It’s surprising how many times one person appears in my top 10 referrals.

  6. #6

    Comment by fmjrey on 3 December 2007:

    My advice is to stay away from onlywire. I’ve been using it for a year, and this is the second time it fails silently on me with Simpy, leaving me to manually adjust the missing links I’ve created for more than 3 weeks (very tedious).
    Emailed them, no answer and no fix after a week.
    Moreover in their terms of service (http://www.onlywire.com/terms) they ask for permission to add sponsored links to your bookmarks using your login.

    Silent failure + silent support + silent spam = stay away from them!!!

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