Comments on: OnlyWire: One BookMarklet To Rule Them All

By: fmjrey

fmjrey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:13:53 +0000

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!!!

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:53:45 +0000

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

Thatâ€™s onlywireâ€™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.

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:27:36 +0000

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?

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:05:54 +0000

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

By: Broc

Broc — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:35:52 +0000

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?

By: skarld

skarld — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:00:52 +0000

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.