A quick question - I'm thinking of using Overwire to submit to SB sites but this needs a button to be installed which gives me a security warning asking if it's a trusted source. Has anyone had any viruses / problems with installing Overwire? Has anyone found it effective/useful?
I have the button installed (onlywire I guess?) and didnt get any virus notifications. As far as I know it's ok. Did a quick Google and didnt see anything of interest.
Many thanks squelsh - reassuring to know. Think I might give it a try as sb is just soooo time-consuming. One further question: does overwire submit sites from YOUR account (ie do you have to create an account with each sb site first) or from THEIR account?
You are given a page where you put the username and password of all of your different social bookmarking sites. I've set up all of mine with different usernames as I'm thinking of doing a social bookmarking exchange in the future (you link to my 15 sb sites, ill link to yours sort of thing). So yes they all come from whatever accounts you set up. Onlywire went paid recently although there is the option to put a link somewhere on one of your sites. It's pretty easy to use and reasonably quick. With sites that use captchas you have to manually do this but I reckon I can bookmark to about 15 sites in under a minute which isn't bad really is it. I would recommend setting up different user names and spending a bit of time making sure each profile bookmarks its own unique content just so it doesn't look to obvious. Easy to do - just find some cool stuff on digg, submit it to a few sites, then submit something else to another few etc. Just best to play it safe I guess
Is this to "kid" Google into not realising the same person is submitting in each site? Do you mean you don't submit a site (Site A) to each SB site?
Google has been cracking down on social bookmarking for SEO a lot recently and it really doesn't have the effect it used to. I'm not so much into 'kidding' Google or anything like that but trying to build more natural profiles. I do use different usernames for each however. So rather than just setting up 20 profiles and spamming the search engines I try and get each one to submit its own unique content and on occasion will get all of the profiles to link to one particular page that I'm promoting. Try and keep the mass submitting to a minimum, avoid building SBs to the homepage of a site but rather the pages that would most likely get a SB. I also avoid SB my own sites. Since you can only do this once and then the profiles are useless for link building I prefer to do SB exchanges, but only if we are both bookmarking quality content. When it comes to SB it depends on your shade of grey. While I do use different usernames for each, I make sure that each one bookmarks their own quality sites regularly in order to add value to the SB world.