OnlyWire is one of the first Social Bookmarking submission services on the market. They were quick to recognize the potential of multi-network submissions necessary to promote the content and build backlinks.
As social media presence is considered a necessity for every serious business, any tool that automates social backlinks creation is welcomed, plus it gives a massive traffic boost.
How does OnlyWire work?
It works in two ways. One is to allow you to bookmark your content very quickly across many services ( you decide which ones) at the same time. Simply fill out basic information like a link, description, title, tags and click submit.
The software then automatically logs in to social accounts you’ve created and posts the information you just filled in. Occasionally you need to solve a captcha to proceed.
The most time consuming thing about using OnlyWire is creating those social account as you need to go to your chosen social bookmarking sites and create accounts. With 50 or so services it can take a good part of the day to do that, but this can be easily outsourced using services like JustaFive.
Why does OnlyWire work?
The reason this is a good strategy is that Google searches through social bookmarking services for fresh content and to recognize current trends. this is one of their ways to provide searchers with up to date information on given subject.
If Google finds a large number of links on bookmarking sites pointing to any particular subject that means this topic is important for people and it’s a fresh trend.
Certain bookmarking services can be a trusted resource from human perspective and users of services like Digg often search for news on given topic right there. If your social post on Digg gets to Digg’s front page, the shear volume of traffic created by Digg users can easily block a server of any site.
This also comes from viral aspect of social bookmarking. If people find something interesting they will pass it on, so your single submission has a potential of returning thousands of backlinks.
There are various versions of OnlyWire service, starting with free ending with enterprise for massive number of submissions going to millions.
I have been using this back when it was all free and have upgraded to free version. This is one of the tools where you can see the difference right away. It’s easy to test, simply publish two similar posts and for one of them use OnlyWire to bookmark.
Many times you will see the staggering difference, but the absolutely best way to use it is to do this for every single post you create and every bit of content. You can also submit other websites that contain your backlinks.
OnlyWire Plugin
OnlyWire created a plugin for WordPress that automatically bookmarks every post you create. you can also choose to show OnlyWire button on that post so people also can bookmark that same post to their favorite services. This creates a social interaction with you website’s content, a factor that Google strongly considers in evaluating a web page.
SEO tips on using OnlyWire service
- Don’t put all your eggs into one basket, meaning if you have many websites don’t use the same OnlyWire account for all of them, this may look suspicious for search engines.
- Switch between accounts when submitting, don’t always post to all bookmarking accounts at the same time.
- This should NOT be your ONLY strategy for backlinks, you have to create some other types of incoming links.
- Captcha solver is a must for high number of submissions, in the end adding up all the time, it will save you a few nice days of your life.
Other OnlyWire tools
You can also submit your pages using Browser Bookmarklet, basically any webpage you see in your browser can be quickly submitted. Interesting thing also is the ability to submit RSS Feeds to OnlyWire services, a feature many people will appreciate.
Conclusion
Social bookmarks are the only type of links you can create with this service, but overall this is a massive time saver and one of the best tools in terms of impact for the money and time spent.
You should expect a great traffic boost because OnlyWire uses only top social networks.
I’ve been using it for years and before I discovered OnlyWire the only way was to submit to every bookmarking site manually – a huge headache that was.
Not anymore.
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