Best automation SEO tools?

[G Singh]

Hi guys,

So I don't have much time to do a lot of SEO/ backlinking but I want to know what automation tools people use to get work done. I'm planning on building my website portfolio so I will need something that will help speed up the process. I know warriors swear by SENuke and Bruteforce SEO but what others are available?

Gurpreet

[Adam H]

Very simple answer to your question................ they dont , Automated practices to do anything to do with SEO is bound to get you in **** as they say.

The only thing that i ever use that is automated is to check serps and even that isnt accurate enough and i have to check them manually sometimes.

Other than that , out source your SEO work to someone , Little easy jobs like Directory submissions, article marketing, press release submissions and social bookmarking can all be done for cheap and there is little danger of some idiot messing it up and getting you penalised .

Of course if you want proper link building done , do it your self or hire a professional , getting it done by the right people can be the difference between a successful website and a failure.

[Kael41]

Riverwire,
I respectfully disagree with you wholeheartedly. Your answer, while it is an opinion, is wrong. While yes, many automation tools CAN trigger a google flag, you can also use a lot of these tools for simple automation purposes as well. Here's an example.

Bookmarking. I can spend the time to manually bookmark 100's of sites and take the necessary hours and hours to do so...or...automate the process. I'll lay my odds on automating that process. I've got tools that will create 100's of accounts for me, and another tool which will open my inbox for me and click each link to confirm the accounts..automatically.

Not sure how that would get me in a load of trouble. Now, if i were to bookmark one website page to 2000 places in the course of 1-2 days while setting up profile links, directory submissions, and article submissions..sure, i'm an idiot that doesn't understand the consequences of my actions. But it's not the tools fault..it's mine.

In order to be successful at this, you need to have a plan. The power is not within the tool, but how you use it.

[Kael41]

Riverwire,
I respectfully disagree with you wholeheartedly. Your answer, while it is an opinion, is wrong. While yes, many automation tools CAN trigger a google flag, you can also use a lot of these tools for simple automation purposes as well. Here's an example.

Bookmarking. I can spend the time to manually bookmark 100's of sites and take the necessary hours and hours to do so...or...automate the process. I'll lay my odds on automating that process. I've got tools that will create 100's of accounts for me, and another tool which will open my inbox for me and click each link to confirm the accounts..automatically.

Not sure how that would get me in a load of trouble. Now, if i were to bookmark one website page to 2000 places in the course of 1-2 days while setting up profile links, directory submissions, and article submissions..sure, i'm an idiot that doesn't understand the consequences of my actions. But it's not the tools fault..it's mine.

In order to be successful at this, you need to have a plan. The power is not within the tool, but how you use it.

[Adam H]

Originally Posted by Kael41

Riverwire,
I respectfully disagree with you wholeheartedly. Your answer, while it is an opinion, is wrong. While yes, many automation tools CAN trigger a google flag, you can also use a lot of these tools for simple automation purposes as well. Here's an example.

Bookmarking. I can spend the time to manually bookmark 100's of sites and take the necessary hours and hours to do so...or...automate the process. I'll lay my odds on automating that process. I've got tools that will create 100's of accounts for me, and another tool which will open my inbox for me and click each link to confirm the accounts..automatically.

Not sure how that would get me in a load of trouble. Now, if i were to bookmark one website page to 2000 places in the course of 1-2 days while setting up profile links, directory submissions, and article submissions..sure, i'm an idiot that doesn't understand the consequences of my actions. But it's not the tools fault..it's mine.

In order to be successful at this, you need to have a plan. The power is not within the tool, but how you use it.

I would class that as semi automated and for things like bookmarking , directory submissions and article submissions it would either have no effect on the site or a good effect, If it was that easy to have a bad effect on a site then every competitor in the land would be running plans to snipe their other competitor and so on.

Ive used a tool before called submitter bot which was quite handy for submitting Social bookmarking and a couple of directory submissions etc.

I think you misunderstood what i was getting at, these little practices like mentioned above , as i said any idiot can do it ! hell ive been had my sister ( completely computer illiterate ) to do directory submissions with roboform bad in the early days, wouldnt you agree that was semi automated.

Maybe i misunderstood the OP's meaning as i took it as he wanted to automate everything , not just Directory , article and social submissions.

[dadaas]

Ok guys your talking about flags and google ban, what about tools that can automate process, are they for free, where to get them, come on please share some links.

[G Singh]

Riverwire,

Yeh I was looking at general automation tools that would make link building etc a lot easier. Like I said people swear by SEnuke and Bruteforce, so maybe people could suggest tools they enjoy using similar to those, or maybe some that aren't so related.

Gurpreet

[Peter Adamson]

I agree with Kael41 that automation in and of itself is neither good nor bad. If it is done wrong (and it is frequently done wrong) then it can do more harm than good. Just make sure you know how to use it before starting.

Anyway, the OP didn't ask us what we think of automation, he asked if we know of any good tools. Any suggestions? (hint: try looking at my sig... ;^)

[mark@1to101]

I recommend looking at the following...
-Unique Article Wizard
-Article Marketing Automation
-Bookmarking Demon
-RSS Bot

They're all semi-automated but, unless you outsource to other people, you're going to have to still do a fair amount of work yourself.

[obender]

In My Opinion the automated tools are not so good as manual work but give you an advantage , ant it's better than not doing any work because of lack of time/money....

There are few solutions in that area and few free ones....

You can try SEO Genie , Automatic Backlinks - Link exchange For more tools just google "automated seo"

[MustafaKamal]

the only automation i personally like is human automation if you know what i mean. hehehe.

[McBrett]

I use Comment Kahuna for blog comments. It's free and I find it pretty useful. As the guys before me stated, don't go hog wild and post 1,000 comments in one day... be sure to switch up the anchor text too.

I've been experimenting with Automatic Article Submitter for article submissions. It has a list of about 300 article directories to submit to. I can't voice an opinion on this on as of yet since I just recently began using it.

[janicejan]

Bookmarking Demon and Unique Article Wizard FTW!

Originally Posted by Amy21

Senuke is 100% automated if you use their captcha service.

Amy, its the first time I've heard of this. Would you mind sharing a link?

[Fernando Veloso]

I suggest you guys keep attention while stating SEO can be overdone with automated tools...

There is not a single proof of it - besides, if one can get hammered by Google for "too many links - too fast", then SEO is dead and Battle is open.

Think about it.

[12holger34]

I want to mention another practical SEO tool for publishing articles, which I believe it is a good one: submityourarticle.com

[Tom Brite]

Originally Posted by Peter Adamson

I agree with Kael41 that automation in and of itself is neither good nor bad. If it is done wrong (and it is frequently done wrong) then it can do more harm than good. Just make sure you know how to use it before starting.

Anyway, the OP didn't ask us what we think of automation, he asked if we know of any good tools. Any suggestions? (hint: try looking at my sig... ;^)

Yep! Im a member of the link juicer and its amazing!

Plus Mr Anderson's a really nice guy who does actually care about his clients!

Total Thumbs up here

Tom Brite

Originally Posted by Amy21

Senuke is 100% automated if you use their captcha service.

Yep... im an avid senuke user and am setting out to teach my assistants how to use it too!

Tom Brite

[Kael41]

Fernando,
The field of the dead is littered with sites that have gone out and super hyperlinked utilizing a ton of different automated methods. You want proof? I know of MANY people who could log in tomorrow and post up their own responses about using lesser known automated link building tools and used them stupidly. Not many of us here would go out and create 10,000 links back to our sites in 24 hours The tools are there, and people do use them, but they are not very effective for long term building.

There's nothing wrong with using automated tools correctly. If I were to launch a site tomorrow, this is what I would automate:
1) bookmark account creation
2) email link verification
3) bookmarking to web 2.0 sites
4) linkwheel creation
5) article submissions
6) podcast submission
7) rss feed submissions
8) web 2.0 profile site creation
9) web 20 profile site postings
10) message forum activities

10 different ways for me to automatically assist my seo efforts. And 10 different methods to do so. Just gotta be smart

Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso

I suggest you guys keep attention while stating SEO can be overdone with automated tools...

There is not a single proof of it - besides, if one can get hammered by Google for "too many links - too fast", then SEO is dead and Battle is open.

Think about it.

[Fernando Veloso]

Originally Posted by Kael41

Fernando,
The field of the dead is littered with sites that have gone out and super hyperlinked utilizing a ton of different automated methods. You want proof? I know of MANY people who could log in tomorrow and post up their own responses about using lesser known automated link building tools and used them stupidly.

What you're saying is I CAN use those tools stupidly to drop 50K links into your site and get you screwed?

Not buying it. And I explain why:

Google himself would lose all his ranking power. "Too many competition? Just drop 50K links on them." End of Google rankings as we know them.

Just my humble opinion based of my observations of Google SE.

If it was so easy to outrank someone, all the BlackHatters would be N1, don't you think?



But hey!! Who am I to know right?

[G Singh]

Ok so I've signed up to the link juicer. Seems a neat idea, we'll see how the 30 days trial goes.

To add diversity to my links I'm going to look into Bruteforce SEO to after doing some research. I think this will be a good starting point. I'll look to work on each of my websites once every 2-3 weeks and gradually move up the SERPS with any luck.

Gurpreet

[DireStraits]

Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso

What you're saying is I CAN use those tools stupidly to drop 50K links into your site and get you screwed?

Not buying it. And I explain why:

Google himself would lose all his ranking power. "Too many competition? Just drop 50K links on them." End of Google rankings as we know them.

Just my humble opinion based of my observations of Google SE.

If it was so easy to outrank someone, all the BlueFartters would be N1, don't you think?



But hey!! Who am I to know right?

Very good point - that'd be foolish on Googles part.

However, there is a difference between those who have used mass backlinknig to ACHIEVE good ranking,and those who've already got good rankings and have fallen victim of others mass backlinking to them in an attempt to get them penalized.

Such mass backlinking would largely arouse suspicion and prompt a manual review. Google will then likely be able to trace and discount backlinks built in such a fashion, and what that means is that if you intentionally built those links as a MEANS to rank well, your site will then no longer rank well.

If on the other hand you didn't put those links there and used to rank well before they existed, you'll continue to rank as you did before.

Either way, mass backlinking by spamming the hell out of sites doen't have much long-term benefit, if any at all.

[Kael41]

Fernando,
Yes. There are people currently using tools like XRUMER and SEONUKE to spamhammer their competitor sites. I mean, they're actively attacking them that way. Whether they're working or not in their endeavors - i don't know. But yea, they claim it works and they're trying to take people down by this kind of warfare.

[Mark Olson]

Originally Posted by Kael41

Fernando,
Yes. There are people currently using tools like XRUMER and SEONUKE to spamhammer their competitor sites. I mean, they're actively attacking them that way. Whether they're working or not in their endeavors - i don't know. But yea, they claim it works and they're trying to take people down by this kind of warfare.

When people try that they typically end up giving a boost to their competitors sites!

To the original question, there are lots of automated or semi-automated tools that are useful, but they won't take you to the top in highly competitive niches. They can be a valuable part of a backlinking strategy, however. To reach the top I often supplement mass linking building with paid or rented high PR links.