OnlyWire has been around under the radar for a while, certainly in the web 2.0 scene.  Other social bookmarking tools have receive wide recognition and some of that has included mainstream, you could take addthis as an example.  In my own personal opinion OnlyWire has been the mother of social bookmarking tools, this is not exaggeration! 

OnlyWire has not been through any massive upgrades since its release and has not actively gone out on to get it the recognition that other web 2.0 services have attempted to do over the years.  However OnlyWire has been receiving wide recognition amongst those who actually understand the potential of what it does.  

OnlyWires core service has allowed webmasters to bookmark posts to multiple services in once click.  So you visit OnlyWire and upload your details for the social bookmarking sites (I did it years ago), whenever you want to bookmark a post you simply copy+paste the code to the browser bar and enter tagging details, etc since OnlyWire will populate the URL and if possible the title of the post and submit. In an instance the bookmarking sites are populated.  

Smart marketeers as a rule have created approx' 20 posts and then used OnlyWire as a medium to post them all to the host of bookmarking services available and seen increase of 400+ unique visitors in a day. 

But since the purchase of OnlyWire by snipitron it has been upgrade to 2.0.  In an upgrade you would expect a redesign, sure; but it is the functionality that matters to most here.

Snipitron has come in assertive in the way the service is used, you either pay for the service or support the 'bookmark and share' widget on your site which is ad suported.  but heres the beauty, the widget actually allows visitors to the site to bookmark your site to 'multiple' social bookmarking sites; this potentially can explode the propmotion of your site.  However I must argue although a brilliant concept the design is flawed in the widget:

 

The solution use a string of .js code to be pasted into the site, for joomla users this will get less tedious once a plugin is created.

At the bottom is where the ads will sit and the other red circle is the 'setup bookmark sites' link which will redirect the visitor with the option to setup multiple bookmarking.  You still have other useful information as expected from such a tool but I just feel that the power of OnlyWire is in the  'setup bookmark sites' and essentially a better system could really get this noticed by the visitors.  

Since there is a paid model I think they should have offered an affiliate scheme to get this tool to become one of the most popular amidst such staunch competition in this field.  The either 'Pay or Promote' certainly is a strong method and no doubt the confidence is that user will promote since the service is so useful. 

We will be including it here is wowjoomla and are discussing developing the plugin that means our visitors can simply plug and play. 

 

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There has always been a lot of demand for the lightbox login to work with Community Builder and the Joomla 1.0 version.  We have always planned an update and just not been able to priortise it above the projects and extensions that put bread on the table.  However this changed a few weeks ago.  

Matt from stockwire.com asked for the extension to be custom built for his site and he gave us a unique angle to the loginbox which frankly I did not think of.  Not only does he have a creative flair when it comes to design, the user functionality that he has asked to be included in brilliant.

He is what the loginbox looks like:

 What you see is a) logo b) eye candy image to attract visitors c) sign in process validates email and checks CB if username is available.  

 

Here again some eye candy image to entice the visitor to sign up.  The complete areas from the first step are pre-installed and locked, for the completion the visitor just needs to fill in the address details.  

As stated this is for a client and his specific needs, it may not be to everyones specification but certainly a cool method to look at providing a login/registeration feature and the increase of sign up conversion.   Matt was also asking about setting the login to popup on a time basis, therefore once a visitor is on the site for xx seconds the login pops up enticing them to sign.  So in one angle it will serve as a popup box but an attractive one at that. 

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Although the domain name maybe over a year old, those of you have been following the development will notice that we have not been live as a site for that long. 

However this has not stopped us from making sure that this joomla based site is not only Search Engine Optimised, but is ranking well in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page).  I have a post over at digital point that shows how I got the site into the first page of Google for the term 'joomla 1.5 tutorial' in 11 days! You can check it out and see that this site is floating around #6 in Google for 627,000 competing sites. 

For the keyword 'joomla tutorial' the site sits at a healthy #14 in Google with 2,430,000 competing sites!  However I must have to admit that I have been neglecting this keyword in favour of 'joomla 1.5 tutorial' and as a whole have neglected Search Engine Optimization of the site currently whilst I concentrate on other matters.  Since I am at page #1 and #2 and not leaving the presence of Google from these 2 pages I can afford to come back to this and this is what I intend to do now!

Unfortunately for you I can not reveal an absolute killer technique that I have discovered to find hot areas that are totally related to any site that I can get high Page Rank backlinks from.  So much juice is spread from these sites that I was able to get to #19 in Google in one day.  I kid you not, you can read about it in the digital point post. 

However I will like to give you something to take away from this that will give you excellent results in the search engine.  It is an eBook, and an eBook about directory listing.  Some of you may have have some experience in directory listings and some of you may not have.  Well I have and it is gold if you can use it properly.  Take a look at this controversial posts that has stirred massive debate over the SEO blogosphere.   Lo behold it is a SEO company that has made it to the top of Google at #1 position for the keyword 'seo company' with listings from directories, what do you think is the value of having that position?

The eBook will give you better understanding about SEO and directories.  However the eBook is not from me, it is by a specific company that specialises in directory listing called Directory Maximizer and the service is nothing short of excellent.  The sheer thinking that has been put into the professionalism, presentation and user experience is profound.  Even a newbie to the internet could use the service with ease. 

I have targeted 100 directory listings each for the following 3 keywords 'joomla', 'joomla tutorial', 'joomla php'.  These keywords alone attract over 300,000 searches in Google per month. 
But these 100 listings will be distributed over a 5 week period manually, thats just 2.8 links a day; this will give a natural feel to the search engines. 

Anyway take a look at the eBook which you can click here to download.  Have a good read over and then check out Directory Maximizer, each site that you submit to only cost £0.14 cents.  I am looking to target 500 directories over a 6 month period, although that will cost me approx' $70 it is a small price to pay for a priceless placement.

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