Is onlywire a Black hat solution to be avoid it?

[seoandwebdesign]

after using onblywire for 6 month and not getting the desire ranking report, I wonder if I'm hurting my self by using this program that might be black listed by Google?

[every1]

Automated social bookmarking will do little or nothing for your site (s). Problem is that you are posting your content to lots of social sites but showing no engagement with any of their users (unless you’ve got lots of resources to engage with them) Better to post your content to a couple of social sites that you can monitor and engage with effectively.

Take a look at your analytics and identify which social sites are generating traffic and interest to your site (s) and concentrate on engaging with these people.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

It can be a part of your promotional strategy but shouldn't be the only piece (because you won't see many results). Social bookmarking sites have been a target for blackhat spam so their links have been devalued significantly by search engines. On the flip side, if you have a great product/service/article that people one these networks would want to see, I see no problem with promoting it through all of the channels.

There are thousands of social bookmarking sites but OnlyWire submits to the top ones so there is little risk in terms of getting penalized.

[every1]

Hi Oleg,

I've used Onlywire in the past to generate back links and pre Panda/ Penguin it was successful. Agreed it raises some brand/ product awareness but I would worry that large scale production of links back your site (s) will have some negative effect over time or even get ignored by the SE’s (making any spend on this service worthless).

Surely it’s better to get real people talking about / promoting your products / services than “fly posting” - which is essentially what bookmarking is.

Luis - using these types of software and focusing on better rankings “clouds" the most important thing - you want engagement and conversions for your products / services and not necessarily the top rankings. It’s important to tell people how good your services and products are and the only way this can really be done is by engaging with individuals. As more and more individuals engage with your products and services your rankings will naturally increase (as will sales / conversions).

Don’t try and game Google and the rankings - it only will frustrate you and ultimately lead to worse ranking and traffic.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Yes, having social bookmarking as your only strategy will not yield great results (probably just waste your time) but doing it as part of a larger promotional strategy helps you get a boost in rankings + is viewed by member of those bookmark sites. You get found by more people quicker which helps the promotion > engagement > rankings cycle start. (e.g. if you rank page 1 for one of your services, you are more likely to be found and link to/talked about.