I’ve mentioned a few things about social bookmarking before, from putting buttons on your blog to some social bookmark submission software, but never written specifically about a service called OnlyWire.

I would go as far as to say that OnlyWire is the best social bookmarking site there is, and get this - it does not store your bookmarks and it doesn’t let you socialize!

But it does something even better…

It allows you to submit your bookmarks to 19 real social bookmarking websites with just one click. (Well I guess it’s two clicks because you have to confirm the submission, but that’s a lot faster than submitting to sites individually!)

It works like this:

1. You sign-up at OnlyWire.com
2. You fill out your profile with login details for your various accounts for the other social bookmarking sites.
3. Drag the OnlyWire submission button onto your bookmarks toolbar.
4. Then just start using the OnlyWire button instead of individual buttons.

Like magic - your bookmarking becomes 19 times faster!

That one click will submit the page to Backflip, Bibsonomy, Blinklist, Blogmemes, Blue Dot, de.lirio.us, del.icio.us, Diigo, Furl, Jots, LinkRoll, LookLater, ma.gnolia, Markaboo, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, and Wink.

At each submission, you can pick out the title and tags, and you can choose which services you’d like to use (just in case you don’t want the bookmark listed on every single account.)

Like I said, it’s fast and easy and great. The only complaint I’ve heard is that it’s not natural to have your site bookmarked at all these sites under the same title (i.e. anchor text.) I don’t really see a problem with that though, because the title field defaults to the page title of the web page, and I imagine that most people just use that default title. So it actually would be natural to have a lot of social bookmarks under the same anchor text.

But if you don’t like it, whatever. It works for me

[This post originally appeared at InternetMarketingSucks.com]

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Catchy title, huh? Everyone wants to possibly save time and increase traffic

What we’re looking at is a new piece of software called Web2Submitter, and it helps automate the process of submitting your web pages to social bookmarking services. It’s common knowledge to most webmasters that they can get traffic by submitting their sites to these sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit.

I didn’t think it took very long to do so, but maybe it takes a long time for some people, and that’s why this software came out. I can only poke fun at it in a few ways, as it might be a handy tool for some people. And unfortunately, the sales page doesn’t make totally outrageous claims that you’ll get rich overnight by using this software!

However, I picked out a few good tidbits from the sales page audio!

The first one was that this software is “not a spam tool.” It’s not a spam tool just like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or another email client is not a spam tool. Unfortunately, unscrupulous people can easily use it to spam! This might not be the worst form of spamming, but it’s a nuisance. It will just lead to more spam on all the bookmarking sites, like I mentioned when I wrote about the crap that is submitted on StumbleUpon.

Next they say that “not many internet marketers are using these methods.” I beg to differ! Almost every blog i read these days has rows upon rows of social bookmarking buttons. There are Wordpress plugins that do this easily, along with a “Digg This” plugin for Digg submissions. All you have to do is click those buttons for easy submission to each bookmarking site. Or better yet, just let your readers submit for you!

I don’t have much else to complain about though. I guess the good thing is, it’s not some get rich quick scheme. It could be used legitimately, like one of those semi-automated tools for article submission. So it might save you some time. If that’s worth $47, then go for it.

It doesn’t make any real claims other than saving time and getting some links to your site. It’s assuming you’re taking the long way to submit your sites to these Web 2.0 places by logging-in and all that. I just use the buttons that i already have on my websites, so for me, it wouldn’t save that much time. I don’t spend 7-8 hours per week doing this already, but if you do, you have two options:

1) add the buttons to your site and submit via those (or just wait for your visitors to do it for you, which is what i prefer to do - and it takes no time on my part!)

2) buy this software and try it out; hopefully it saves you time.

If it sounds like the tool for you, here’s the link: Web2Submitter

If not, no big deal. I’m happy I read the sales letter because I learned about Only Wire, a free social bookmark submission service. It submits your page to 19 social bookmarking sites at once, saving you plenty of time.

Note: The Web2submitter link is an affiliate link. Why? Because I figured it’s possible to use this without spamming, and it’s only a time-saving software tool to help automate something you should do anyway. I don’t use this personally, so I don’t know if it’s any good or not, so it’s not actually a recommendation to purchase. But, the sales page gives you a demo so it’s no secret what you’re getting. And if you’re not satisfied, you can ask for a refund. If they don’t give you one, go straight to ClickBank and they’ll get the refund for you. And c’mon, I’d like to make a little extra spending money for myself! Wouldn’t you do the same thing?

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If you are wondering what kind of sites you can make with Desktop Adsense Cash Machine, here’s an example of something I did. Obviously I created the template myself, because the stock template is basically worthless. (Which is good - it forces you to create something unique.)

mortgageandrefinance.info

***2007 Update*** I no longer own this site, so what you are seeing these days is probably something new, if the site is up at all.

Personally I think that’s a decent looking site compared to some others. For the most part, you make a website template like you would for any site, then add in a couple variables so that the software knows where to put the articles. That’s it.

For my site, I used PHP to make use of includes. For a site that’s 1000+ pages, you sure don’t want to update each one by hand! The header, footer, navigation, and all the Adsense ads are in separate include files. That means I only have to edit one file to make sitewide changes. It works nicely

Once I got the hang of the software, it took about half an hour for each site. Time will vary based on a lot of factors, from your connection speed (the software has to pull in the articles and content from around the web) to the complexity of your site design (the more complex the design, the more time it takes you to make.)

So far, so good, right?

Wrong.

Apparently, the time that I feel like messing around with this software (figuring I could sell my test sites to recoup my costs) is the time that everyone decides not to buy stupid, scraped article sites like this! I’ll be lucky to make back my investment in the domain names!

(Yes, I could keep the sites and promote them, but I don’t want to. They suck! Plus, I have plenty of other sites that require my attention.)

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Last month I wrote about some software called Desktop Adsense Cash Machine, software for building large content sites based off of free articles. And with sites like that, you can’t help but make millions from Adsense! Or maybe not…

The good: The software lived up to my expectations. It does what it is supposed to do, and that’s it.

[*What it is supposed to do: Automatically create a website with lots of pages by gathering free articles from directories.]

The bad: I wish it gave you more choice as to which articles to add to your site. You are limited to adding articles by category. There is no way to add articles that contain a certain keyword or anything. It doesn’t come with instructions either, which would help.

Verdict: Definitely not worth the $47 or whatever they are charging for it. Luckily I picked up my copy pretty cheap from a reseller, or else I’d probably want a refund.

I would advise against buying this because (thankfully) Google is continuting to crack down on crappy websites that don’t add value to the web. Sites created with this software probably don’t add too much value. However, there are some other ways to use this software. For example, you could add a related article directory to a current website of yours.

So if there are potential good uses, why don’t I recommend it?

Well, I didn’t say not to get a copy… I just said don’t pay $47 for one. I decided to make use of my resell rights and give out a FREE copy to all of my ezine subscribers! So if you haven’t subscribed, now’s the time.

Click here for more info on the ezine >> Internet Marketing Sucks Ezine

Almost forgot…

Want to see an example of a site created with this software? If so, I’ll post more in my next blog entry.

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I recently purchased some nifty software that lets you create large content websites quite easily. I’ll be using this to create more test sites, giving me three categories: Quality hand-built unique content sites, pre-built website content packages, and software-built content sites.

This software looks like the best I’ve seen for this purpose. I’ve purchased resale rights to it too, so I may offer it for sale if I like it.

I’ve downloaded some free site builders before, but never bothered with them, as they look like crap. And I have skipped out on other site builders because they cost well over $100. But this may be just the ticket. Stay tuned…

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Earlier today I launched a new website based off of a bunch of ready-made adsense websites. So I now have a 1000+ page content site that took about 20 minutes to setup, not including time to upload files.

I’m interested to see if a site like this can make more money than my other sites that I put A LOT of work into! Although I’d be happy to make a lot of money, it would be kind of disappointing if you think about it… But that’s how lots of people make money with Adsense - huge sites filled with free articles.

I registered a catchy domain name for this site (http://learnaholic.info) so hopefully that helps it stand out. More details and test results to come…

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