Do Multiple Social Bookmarks at Once with Addthis and OnlyWire

Are you using more than one social bookmarking service like del.icio.us? You can bookmark sites and blog posts on over 20 sites including del.icio.us with Onlywire and AddThis.

Onlywire allows users to submit your articles and web pages to multiple social bookmarking engines at once. You do have to add their code to each post with the unique information for that post including the url, title and tags. The Typepad widgets for tool like digg and del.icio.us (see the bottom of this post) are a one time effort. Then they show up on all posts without extra effort. This seems easier to me. Has anyone tried this tool?

AddThis is another way to bookmark a blog and a blog post on many services. Typepad has an AddThis widget which I installed. You can see it in the right side bar. So this was easier than OnlyWire. However, the widget only allows you to bookmark the entire site. The Typepad widgets for digg and del.icio.us allow to automatically add them at the end of each post. AddThis does have an widget for every post but you have to use html to install it. They need to improve their widget to allow for an easy implementation applying the bookmark to every post. Still it does work well and I invite you to use to use it here.

Tech Crunch likes AddThis and wrote the following comment. There is more in the post.

"AddThis is gathering some very interesting data that can form the core of a business model now that they have fairly deep penetration. They’re releasing some of this data tomorrow - showing the top bookmarking services and feed readers where their users store data (see the graphs below). Given that AddThis also sees what stories people are bookmarking, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine other things they could do with all of this data. The top bookmarking services, after the browser feature itself (”favorites”) are del.icio.us and Google Bookmarks, followed by Digg and Yahoo My Web. No surprises there. The top feed reader by a large margin is the much improved Google Reader."

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Comments

[Annie]

I have seen quite a few programs like this around the web. Click a button and you can bookmark your sites in 20 places at once!

I'm sure this is a popular tool for SEOs, but in truth, I think you'll get a lot more out of joining two or three social bookmarking communities and actually working to become a part of that community. A big part of the power behind these platforms is the opportunity for networking they provide. I suspect a lot of that is lost if you're just carbon copying your bookmarks across the web.

[bill Ives]

Annie - Excellent points. It becomes simply gaming with massive copying stuff. I think the real benefit of AddThis is that you get a menu of many bookmarking and sharing sites so you go quickly to the one of your choice. Without real invovement and time you will not get any real benefits. Thanks, Bill

[Janelle (Social Bookmarking Software - FREE Tool)]

Yes, agreed, Social Bookmarking can be used as a great marketing tool. It allows u to get quality backlink and free web traffic. However, it is important not to submit too often to the same site within the same day. Otherwise, u can get banned by the bookmarking sites as they may think that u are spamming.

OnlyWire dot com and GetBookmark dot com are 2 very handy tool (free of charge). They each allows u to submit to about 15+ bookmarking sites all at one go. But, u must first create your account with each bookmarking site. This can be quite tedious and boring. The other 2 drawbacks are the sites listed are quite limited (some in the list are not even working) and it does not allow u to use keyword phrase as tag.

For those who are seriously looking at tapping the power of web 2.0 social bookmarking sites to generate good traffic and back links, u may want to do as what I have done => invest in software to automate the job. The one I am using right now is pretty neat. It has more sites listed compared to OnlyWire and it can create accounts for u automatically. It also accepts keyword phrase as tag and let u create multiple profiles so that u do not leave too much footprint on the net in case u are accused of spamming. The best part I like about it is that the software gets updated almost every single month to keep in pace with the latest development of some of the bookmarking sites.

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