My opinion about SEO Software (Senuke, XgenSeo etc.)

It seems to be common understanding that SENuke is the "king" of SEO software, and to a certain degree i want to agree. But i also have big criticism.

The strength of SEnuke at the same time also is its weakness.

I am talking about the modularity, SEnuke is NO "push a button" software.

Senuke *requires* that you have a link strategy before you use it. The user needs to know what modules to use, when and how and why.

This means if you don't study some good SEnuke strategies/courses and really UNDERSTAND what it does and some essentials of good link strategy, SENuke wont be much of use.

So..on one hand this is a huge PLUS since this allows huge flexibility. You have the modules like web2.0 nuke, RSS Nuke, Profile Nuke etc. and its on you to use them in an intelligent way.

But this flexibility and power comes with a price. In all honesty, SEnuke is not an easy tool to use, by a long shot.

To me it AMOST looks like that effective use of Senuke has way too much overhead so you cannot speak anymore of an "automation software", especially if you want to use in for more advanced tasks, eg. making some more intelligent linking structures. (As opposed to simply blasting and then bookmarking, RSS nuking).

In fact, its SO darn involved that i constantly wish i could outsource all this. (I know other people think the same thing). While it DOES save a lot of time its simply too involved and time consuming, IMO.

Then there is other SEO software which "basically" does the same thing like SENuke, but which is way easier to use, for example XGen Seo.

But here is the problem that the easyness of eg. XgenSEO is also its weakness. It is way less flexible in WHAT it does and how you can combine the tasks.

My wish:

Senuke as easy to use as XgenSEo - respective XgenSEO having SOME of the features of Senuke. Either way. For example placeholders to use in XgenSeo like "randurls" or "lasturls" would already be HUGE.

I have to say that playing around with Senuke made me realize the huge potential, but at the same time also turned me off big time. (I dont even mention some bugs/weird things...like posting the same article 5 times to thoughts.com with totally wrong/messed up tags etc.. this simply should NOT happen.)


Just my $0.02

Add: As it stands, i would chose XgenSEO over Senuke *IF* they add more placeholders which could be used in articles, eg. for interlinking articles. This should be VERY, VERY easy to implement and is needed, IMO. Removal of critical Bugs in XGENSeo like trying to RSS submit/bookmark the SAME (!) URl over and over.

MULTIPLE accounts/login rotation for submission...not only using ONE login <--- !

If they do this XGenSeo has a very good chance to compete and even surpass SENuke.

And as for SENuke:

Senuke people need to realize that they are not the only SEo software available anymore. The price of SENuke might be legit - but then please dont do stupid things like multiple submissions...and add ESSENTIAL features like better reporting/resuming of taks...."natural looking" profile creation with choice of user pictures etc.. which could be expected if we are already in such a price range. There is no point in spending $170/month on "automation software" and then STILL needing to think about outsourcing since its use is still too time consuming and involved.

Whether Senuke X will address those issues, i dont know.