For SEO, Which Do You Suggest : Tool Or Service

[SEOChief]

Traffic Travis is free and cool.

Micro Nice Finder is a great tool.

However, to decide between a service and a tool you would need to assess your time availability for "doing it yourself" verse financial accessibility to paying for services.

Whatever you do be sure to secure a service that is truly valuable and able to deliver what they claim rather than hype's and false promises that are so prolific within the industry.

[Aki Fagno]

I suggest you choose a tool rather than a service. I have tried hiring someone before and it does not give instant result. Instant automation from a tool is much preferred.

[edricwage]

I would prefer a combination of both.

[Heavenstorm]

I hired an seo company to build backlinks for all my sites and if I have time I will build some links myself too. I also subscribe to Tom's backlink booster service and I upload all these links in and let them get boosted even more.

[gforces]

Read a lot of the posts in this thread and I think that the most common sense approach has got to be using a mixture of tools and manual submission. The tools will most likely get you some short term results where as working at it manually and going for the quality over quantity, ie targeting high level backlink sites, is going to pay off in the long run.

[vincemir02]

I actually suggest both. If you go for service, it'll definitely cost you some money. If you go for tools, you'll also spend money but it's a lot cheaper than getting service.

[ann1986]

if you know how to use the tools effectively then purchase tools. But just a hint that using seo tools is not as easy as it looks. its takes time to learn them. If you want to learn them fast then pay someone who is an expert.

To make your life easier then use a service

[goodewealth]

....with a few pennies to point out....I agree with revenuebuilder completely. I am using services by those that know what they are doing. The reviews are always helpful and reaching out to those that have responded in the threads to see what their experience has been and how things are going will help you determine what is the best fit for you and what you are trying to accomplish. I am learning, staying focused and putting the pieces together. But, I do know when not to try and reinvent the wheel too...

[Noctilus]

Originally Posted by Uncleflag

google stopped the sandbox for linking in 2008 because people actually did link to their competitors from porn sites. Clever way to sabotage your competitor. But it no longer works. just google "matt cutts linking sandbox"

Thanks Uncle flag. I google ""matt cutts linking sandbox" and was surprised to say the least. Very helpful.

[GeorgR.]

"Tools" out there today are always rather limited, look at SenukeX, Magic Submitter etc. While *in itself* not bad.....they build your links mainly using Web2.0 properties, bookmarking etc.

But this is not enough. Tools are good in combination with other things, like PR blog networks and so fort. I would actually rate tools/software BELOW "services" like blog networks. If i were to only use ONE method (which is dumb of course)..i would use blog networks.

Or you use an "all-in-one" service provider which does all that for you.

[nik0]

The problem with tools like Senuke and SEOLR are that they spam the same kind of web2.0's and fail in filling in profile details and such. This results in web2.0 sites being more alert and removing these new build blogs faster.

Same counts for article marketing robot, the only auto approve article directorys that are left are getting spammed to death with all kind of links (porn/gambling/pharma) causing your links to come from a bad neighbourhood which Google doesn't really like.

Therefore it's important to mix manual linkbuilidng with automated tools. Most people build the links that point directly to there site manually or they use quality article networks like BMR, high PR society, ArticleRanks, SubmitYourArticle and a couple others. Then they use the automated tools to blast these manually made web2.0's and posted articles so that they gain more linkjuice.

At least thats how I get my results, I've done a lot of testing and found out that using these automated tools directly at my moneysites will hardly move them up in the serps.

A great tool I would recommend though is ZennoPoster, you can program it to target sites that hardly any other IM'ers are using.

[nik0]

Originally Posted by Noctilus

Thanks Uncle flag. I google ""matt cutts linking sandbox" and was surprised to say the least. Very helpful.

Total nonsense, I just completely de-indexed my testsite with 100k blog comments / 100k xrumer links and 2000 AMR article links just to see how hard it would be.

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by nik0

Total nonsense, I just completely de-indexed my testsite with 100k blog comments / 100k xrumer links and 2000 AMR article links just to see how hard it would be.

Sites can vanish for a bit after throwing a ton of links at them. So I wouldn't say for sure that it's de-indexed.

Though over 200k links is a LOT.

[danlew]

Both SEO software and services are fine. But if you want your rankings to be maintained in the long run, natural SEO services are recommended. You can easily find them here on WF and Fiverr.

[paramongoose]

I would say that you should use both software and services. It is extremely time consuming to build backlinks manually.