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Have you tried the Socializer plugin for wordpress yet? Remember what Socializer does? It is just a wordpress plugin for easy social bookmarking.

Well now I have found even a better one - OnlyWire.

Just like socializer, OnlyWire allows users to submit your articles and web pages to multiple social bookmarking engines at once. The main difference between these two tools are, OnlyWire is a lot better because it can automatically bookmark to 15 updated social bookmarking sites.

Here is the list of those 15 sites: Backflip, Blinklist, Blogmemes, del.icio.us, Feedmelinks, Furl, Linkroll, Looklater, ma.gnolia, Maple, Markaboo, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy and Wink.

How to Setup OnlyWire?

1. Register at OnlyWire for a FREE account.
2. Login and Submit the username and password of the social bookmarking sites.
3. Save your ID & password
4. Drag a Drop your OnlyWire bookmark link in your browser’s toolbar.
5. Now you can use the link to bookmark your site using OnlyWire.
6. Go to the page that you would like to bookmark, then click on the OnlyWire link on browser’s toolbar. Depending on your link type (standard or frame), it will open a new page or frame header.
7. Now enter your tags and comments, then submit.

All your previous tags will be recorded. Your page title and URL will automatically be inserted. You can also select your choice of social bookmark sites to be used. By default all of them will be preselected.

I think this is a must have tool for all bloggers in today’s blog network arena!

What Others are saying about Onlywire:

“OnlyWire is a refreshing change in the realm of bookmarking… …the most useful site of the bunch” - WIRED Blogs
“OnlyWire is great! It is one of my Must-Have blogging tools now!” - LiewCF
“Click to create an account or submit this page to OnlyWire. Yes! It is literally that simple” - Speaking & Marketing Tips
“Mother of all Bookmarks” - pacificIT
“Onlywire really beefs up product” - A Zulu In Silicon Valley

Another Similar Social Bookmarking Service

Multisubmit is a multiple social bookmarking service, just like Onlywire. Multisubmit can bookmark in netscape.com, reddit.com, digg.com, furl.net and many more.

The Washington Post also known as WPNI has launched its WPNI blogroll blog. WPNI blogroll is a new inclusion of Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive (WPNI). When you join this blogroll, your blog will be given a spot in the washingtonpost.com website, and you will have the opportunity to accept ads from WPNI advertisers.

All the blogroll members will be listed in the WPNI blogroll directory. Isn’t that just great?

So what are you waiting for? Add your blog to WPNI blogroll now.

There are some great free SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tutorial videos available online by Gareth Davies of GSINC. All the videos are very small and precise with an average length of 2-4 minutes. It mainly covers the basics of SEO along with some lessons on Google searching.

The videos are presented and structured well by Gareth, which makes it easy for his viewers to understand the SEO basics without knowing any of the technical jargon.

The topics which are included in the free video pack are:

1. Importance of Title tags
2. The site command
3. Allintitle command
4. The tilde command
5. Google’s Cache
6. Google’s allinanchor command

If you are a pro in SEO then there is nothing much for you in those videos, but if you are new to SEO and eager to make your hands dirty then these videos can definitely help you to get some very useful information on SEO. All the videos are well structured, easy to understand and most importantly it’s going to take very little time of yours. You can watch or download the SEO tutorial videos from here.

If you want SEO tutorial videos for more advanced learners try the amazing Search Engine Optimization 2006 video by VTC. It’s a 7 hour video tutorial by James Gonzalez, who teaches the ins and outs of SEO with his 111 non stop lessons.

This is also a good time to tell you all about link baiting. It has became a very important part of a strong link building strategy so be sure to read Andy Hagan’s article on this topic.

Bad Neighbourhood links can seriously affect your search ranking in the major search engines like google, yahoo and msn. If you are linking to websites who are consider as spammers or ‘bad neighbourhood‘ by the search engines, It might give a negative affect to the ranking of your page.

An official from Google Inc. has recently made a comment on ‘bad links’ and how they affect your web site rankings on Google.

What is a bad link?

Google is not fond of the following types of site:

1. The renowned Web spammers
2. FFA (Free For All) sites
3. Link Firms (Automated Linking scheme)

What does Google say about bad neighborhood links?

In an argument in a SEO forum, Google’s Adam Lasnik has recently clarified what Google looks for in regards to bad neighborhood penalties:

1. Outbound links and Google’s supplemental index are not related
“It’s unlikely that your outbound linking is causing your pages to be listed in the supplemental, rather than main index.”

2. Google looks for patterns of bad links
“Also, be assured that we’re not looking to penalize folks for a ‘bad’ link here and there. Rather, our algorithms are tuned to look for patterns of ‘egregious’ linking behavior… both on individual sites and in the aggregate.”

3. You should always check and verify all the links on your web site
“It’s certainly in your users’ interest that you regularly audit outgoing links on your site (especially prominent ones) to ensure that you’re not losing folks’ trust by sending them to inappropriate places or 404 pages. ”

What does this have to do with my website?
Since Google looks at the linking pattern, if you accidentally link to a bad neighbourhood you might not be penalized. However if you do it purposely, there is a high possibility that your page will simply fly away from Google. Sometimes many 404 error page gives ranking problems. So always make sure your user can get to every single accessible location.

Many of you like to put a lot of social book marking buttons at the bottom of every post in your blog. It is rather messy if you do not control the number of buttons. So I figured that Socializer might be a good solution for your blog.

Socializer is all-in-1 social book marking button for your wordpress blog. It replaces all the social bookmark buttons (such as digg, simpy, Del.icio.us, Technorati etc.) with only one Socializer button. When a visitor clicks on that button, it will lead him straight to a huge list of social bookmark database (44 sites). There, your visitor can bookmark your page at their choice of social book marking site.

Socializer claims that the submission is completely manual. The only downside of the script is, you will have to open 10 new windows if say you want to bookmark a page in 10 social book marking site.