OnlyWire Review
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Author | Snipitron, LLC |
| Lifetime Support |  |
| Pricing | Free 300 submissions per month, variable rates afterward |
| Version Tested | 1.6.4 |
OnlyWire is a social bookmarking plugin which posts your WordPress blog content to over 30 top social media websites. It has been developed by Snipitron, LLC and features a fully usable PRO version which is totally free of cost for the first 300 submissions.
Adding a number of URLs to your content before posting it via OnlyWire helps you create a large number of solid backlinks in no time.
Features
- It directly posts your content to over 30 popular social media websites including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter among others
- Lets you add an unlimited number of URLs per post creating a large number of backlinks in the bargain
- Single site owners are allowed to post the first 300 submissions for free every month
- Comes with a unique “Bookmark and Share” button which lets you add your favorite/bookmarked links directly to OnlyWire
- Lets blog viewers add your content to their social media websites leading to greater distribution of your content and more backlinks
- OnlyWire® Mobile lets you post bookmarks and status messages to all synced social media websites through your iPhone/iPad
- Multiple blog owners can use OnlyWire at an incredibly cheap $0.05 per post submission
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Usability
OnlyWire is a content submission and bookmarking plugin for WordPress. It fulfills multiple internet marketing requirements like drawing traffic to your WP blog/site, increasing search engine rankings and posting a large number of backlinks.
The plugin features four important tool, viz. the OnlyWire Submitter, Browser Bookmarklet, Bookmark and Share button and finally the Developer API.
The OnlyWire Submitter comes into use once you have physically entered the login information for all your social media accounts. Once this is done, you can use the Submitter tool to auto-submit the selected content to a large number of social media websites. For a complete list of supported websites, see here .
The Browser Bookmarklet tool lets you update your status and post bookmarks to all your social media websites at one go. Similarly the Bookmark and Share button can also be used to automatically post your browser’s favorite/bookmarked links to all your social media accounts.
Finally, the OnlyWire API tool lets you customize the submission process completely. You can actually program OnlyWire and control the time and frequency of your posts to your social media accounts. Additionally, OnlyWire’s API uses http authentication which can be modified via any programming language making it easy to use for a large cross-section of developers.
If any of your blog viewers also uses OnlyWire then he can also post your content on his social media account by a simple click of a button. This increases the visibility of your content exponentially and prevents it from being marked as spam.
OnlyWire is offered in two versions; the Pro version and the Enterprise version. The Pro version is meant for single blog/website owners and can be used totally free of cost for the first 300 submissions. Once the free limit is used up, users have to pay on a per submission basis with fees ranging from $10 for 1000 submissions to $130 for 1,00,000 submissions.
On the other hand, the Enterprise plan is clearly meant for multiple site owners and professional SEO experts. The Enterprise plan lets you add unlimited users, offers 24/7 Live Support, comes with an inbuilt Captcha server, offers User Analytics and finally comes with a dedicated account manager to take care of your problems. The Enterprise plan starts at $200 per month for 10000 submission and goes up to $20000 per month for 2,000,000 submissions.
Using OnlyWire for content syndication and bookmarking gives you the added benefit of posting a large number of backlinks on popular social media websites. This benefits your WP site greatly as social media websites are a huge source of traffic and your posted content can attract a lot of eyeballs your way. Additionally, these websites are regularly trawled by search engines like Google which helps index your backlinks and improve your search engine rankings considerably.
On the flip side, we must say that many of the advertised social media sites are not compatible with OnlyWire and no posting takes place. Similarly, other users have even complained that posting fails even when the plugin status shows otherwise.
The other major problem with OnlyWire is the lack of any RSS functionality. Most other bookmarking and backlinking plugins let you create automatic blog posts by extracting data from RSS feeds which lets you create a large number of blog posts almost simultaneously. This feature is sorely lacking in OnlyWire.
Conclusion
To sum it all up, OnlyWire is a useful content syndication and bookmarking plugin. It is practically free for the average user. It features an easy to use interface and it does automate the process of content syndication and bookmarking. Having said that, if you are a serious affiliate marketer or SEO professional and want to focus on creating backlinks that work, there are significantly better options out there and you should give this plugin a miss.
Hi,
I used to have OnlyWire installed on my blog in the early days of my blogging.
I found it really cumbersome and it was always the last thing to load for web pages which is a serious issue in the eyes of Google since they’re increasingly looking to page load times as a measure of their worthiness and value to their searchers.
Furthermore, when you expand the plugin, there are simply too many options for people to use which ultimately means they take no action.
In my opinion, it is far better to provide less sharing options. Just the main ‘Tweet’ and ‘Like’ buttons and possibly the ‘Digg’ and ‘Stumble’ buttons. There really isn’t any need for anything more.
You can ping content using ping.fm once you’ve configured it.
Thanks,
Wayne
I have just tried it out on my blog. I do not like the expanded box when the Share it button is clicked. Furthermore, it is slow to load when the expanded box tabs are clicked and it looks a bit confusing. Overall, I just don’t feel comfortable using it.
I have never used OnlyWire plugin but reading its features it seems to me as if I should have used it earlier. Thanks for providing such good information.
Thanks for honest review, must say I was excited when I saw the list of sites but then read your verdict! Will give it a miss…
Thanks for the review Hendrik.
It looks like a essential service for the price it offers. Sending from my iPhone 4 here by the way. The mobile submission feature looks good to. Will try it later.
I did not know anything about this service. But now i will use it. Lets see how it works. Thanks for the info.
On behalf of the OnlyWire Team, I would like to thank you for taking the time to tell us about your unfortunate experience with our service. I am very sorry to hear about your frustration and regret that you were not satisfied with our performance.
At this time I can not fully comment on this particular case or issue without investigating the details a bit further. Customer service and user satisfaction are a top priority at OnlyWire. I can guarantee you that we have a firm commitment to our users and will do everything we can to find a resolution. Thank you again for bringing this to our attention, and we will be in touch as soon as possible.
If there is ever an issue all users can reach us on the OnlyWire Customer Support Site, email us directly at: support@onlywire.com or use the Live Chat option available on our homepage.
I haven’t use it before. But will look into it very soon. Thanks for the share.
I am looking for a recommendation the best plug ins for content syndication and creating google indexible back links. Can you provide a list of your favorites?
i have used it. but now uninstalled..not liked.
Hello,
I too have used it. Its very useful to me. Thanks.
I have tried OnlyWire for my blog and the result give organic traffic from Search engine, overall this tool awesome for blog because give publisher natural backlink.
I had never used this pluggin, thinking of spam. But after reading your post, I think that I should use it. Thanks for sharing.