The Wrong Advices

Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips wrote a post about OnlyWire which reminded me how useful a tool it can be to generate backlinks. I signed up a while back, used it for a bit, then completely forgot about it. I wish I hadn’t.

OnlyWire is a handy little web tool which will automatically add any link you give it to multiple social bookmarking sites. This is especially useful for bloggers because it means with a couple of clicks your post can be listed on 19 different sites.

These are the bookmarking services OnlyWire will submit to:

• Backflip
• Bibsonomy
• Blinklist
• Blogmemes
• Blue Dot
• de.lirio.us (no-follow)
• del.icio.us (no-follow)
• Diigo
• Furl
• Jots
• Linkroll (no-follow)
• Looklater
• ma.gnolia
• Markaboo (no-follow)
• Rawsugar (no-follow)
• Shadows
• Simpy (no-follow)
• Spurl
• Wink (no-follow)

I went through and checked each of these sites and I’ve listed the ones that use no-follow links. You can avoid them if you like but they might still be useful for generating some extra traffic. And in any case Yahoo seems to ignore no-follow directives so you should still gain quite a few backlinks with them.

It can be a bit tedious signing up for so many accounts but you only have to do it once and then your set.