As many webmasters are always on the lookout for new and easy applications that will make their search engine optimization efforts more ‘productive’, SEO services such as OnlyWire quickly become popular.

OnlyWire is a service that let you place multiple bookmarks across social bookmark sites with just a click of a button. The advertising hook they use is that with “the power of the button“, you can quickly place numerous bookmarks of your favorite (read “your own”) content across as many social media sites you choose.

They currently offer 2 service levels: one is free and requires that you add their bookmarking button all over your website, which may not be desirable by some, in particular if you prefer other bookmarking tools for your readers such as “share this”. The other option they offer is a paid version for $2.99 per month or $24.99 annually. This may not sound like much, but why should you pay for a service that borders on spamming and something does not bring back many valuable back links, as most social media sites use no follow on their outgoing links?

The “button” installs very easily as a plug-in for Firefox. They may come out with plugins for additional browsers.

The first question you’ll have to ask yourself, is how many social media accounts do you really need? Are the accounts at delicious, digg and Stumbleupon not enough?

Anyway, how does OnlyWire’s “easy” claim hold true?

It is indeed extremely easy to place your bookmarks across social media sites (once you have set up all you accounts with clever usernames and unique passwords). In fact, it is almost too easy to place your links and it almost feels like you’re spamming. Because of the no-follow policy of most social media sites, it almost becomes a trivial exercise of placing your links on any of those social sites: Do you really think you may get visitors from those links, even if those links are worthless from an SEO standpoint (no link juice)?

OnlyWire does do a good job at listing all the sites you submitted your “bookmark” to. However, it would be nice if the software would allow you to spin the descriptions and titles of your submissions. That way it would keep everything a bit more unique, will help with overall SEO and would not feel so much as spamming.