What is the most effective way to outsource or automate SEO.

I am a link specialist and I seriously don't recommend the approach you are taking. My advice: don't go for cheap link spam, it will only hurt your site. Google is sophisticated these days and knows trashy link spam when it sees it. What you need is links that will rank you reliably and fast without getting your site in trouble. You can read this resource on links and link value. If you want results, you're best off hiring an SEO with access to power links.

I agree, the use of software is only going to be a waste of time in most instances.
The type links they build are worthless and 1 good link will be better than 1000 of those types.

Use your resources to hire writers and other SEO assistance as Philip mentioned imho

Look in the Warriors for hire and view the ratings and testimonies.

I'm not looking for software that will turn out spammy links. I'm sure this is what most software does, most software when it comes to anything is quite junky. However I've heard a lot of good things about SEOnuke. The fact you can directly control and see where the links are coming from and how many you are getting appeals greatly to me.

I dabbled with Paul and Angela's backlinks for a while, I only stopped and canceled once I decided I was going to put SEO on the back burner.

To clarify I'm not looking for a magic button that creates bazillion of links and shoots me to the top page, that is not possible. What I am looking for similar to socialmarker.com but software that submits what I choose to the bookmarking sites of my choice. The same goes for submitting articles, videos, and RSS feeds. It seems impossible that something like this whether in one package or several does not exist somewhere.

Hi Andy,

I think it depends firstly on what type of sites you are looking to build links for. If you have a main domain that you are looking to promote than maybe it would be best to find SEO Specialists and Philip recommends that will do the job for you.

But if you are talking about affiliate niche sites and you have many of them than you may want to use the SEO tools that are available such as SENuke, SEOLinkVine, SEO Bluepring, LinkDozer, Bookmarking Demon and many more.

I think that using Blog networks is a good idea and I think that the links you can get from blog networks are pretty good links, especially if those networks have PR Blogs.

There are a lot of people that will swear by SEONuke.
The one thing I see with backlinking, at least true quality links, is that there is often another human on the other end of things. Especially for the more authoritative sites that can give a significant boosts in serps.

But you're right, there must be a multitude of that type software.

If you are in the business of making money. Outsourcing non core specialisations, is an exponential variable...and as part of your overall business strategy, should propel your business forward.

Hi ASCW,
I use a piece of software called Comment Kahuna. It's totally FREE and great for posting comments on blogs. You can post automated comments but I would recommend not doing this and post a comment that is relevant to the article. I have produced a quick training video on Comment Kahuna and it can be viwed here YouTube - Comment Kahuna Traffic Generation Back Linking Software
I've increased my Alexa ranking on various sites using this software. I hope I have been of help.

All the best,
Mark

"That's about it" if your goal is to be on page 13 of Google SERP

How many sites did you manage to get to page one in Google with the steps you mentioned? and if you did manage to get some sites to page one... what exactly was the keyword you were targeting?

I think you over simplified the steps needed to rank in Google and for 99.99999% of keywords you will need a lot more that what you mentioned.

In Philip's defense seo isn't something you dabble in if you want results. There are countless ways to get great backlinks to your site that doesn't involve forum spam or spamming link exchanges. They just take time to learn is all. For instance you can sign up for services such as UAW, My Article Network, Article Ranks, Niche Press Platinum and submit spun articles to them all with your backlink embedded on them. But even then to get good results from that you need to build up backlinks to all your backlinks. So for instance you can spin an article and submit the spins to the 600 sites on Niche Press Platinum. Then create another spun article and submit to Unique Article Wizard backlinking the sites from the Niche Press campaign. Then spin another and submit it to another service backlinking the UAW links.

Learning to do all that effectively just takes time. So I don't think Philip was out of bounds at all recommending the process be outsourced especially since the OP asked about outsourcing.

Phillip you have misunderstood what I have asked, and what I am about in nearly every opportunity you've been granted. I had started to write a long lengthy response but realized it could be simplified to one sentence.

Phil: Would you say that socialmarker.com is spammy, or black/grey hat?

Also:
So basically you show up in my thread saying that you know the answer to my original question, but then say "neener-neener haha you can't have it."

Are you suggesting that I do everything seo related manually and by hand, which is fine if that is what you honestly believe.

Hi Andy, all "SPAM moralizing" aside, I'll try to answer your question. There are some good tools out there for doing off-page SEO (basically, backlinks), one of which is SEnuke (but there are many others).

There isn't necessarily any spamming necessary, but I guess it depends on perspective.

What is better? Manually submitting a dozen articles or automating the process?

I suppose if you have a problem with either, then the issue is article marketing and how you approach it.

But if you believe that publishing your quality articles is a good thing, then why not automate it? The aforementioned tool (and its brethren) can certainly do that for you.

PLUS, you decide how the interlinking is handled; it's all highly customizable. You can create linkwheels if you think that's valuable. You can randomize linking, or you can just point everything back to your "money site." It's up to you.

People tend to take the "my road" approach to all this and draw conclusions based on very limited experience. Don't misunderstand that statement - I am NOT saying people here have limited experience. What I am saying is that what works for google rankings depends on your market/niche.

Try getting to #1 on google for "internet marketing" as opposed to "how to improve your left-handed golf swing" - one requires a ton of traffic, authority, backlinks, age, etc., whereas the other may require 10 solid articles and a few dozen backlinks (I don't know the real figures - this is hypothetical).

The point being that people have conclusions based on what has and hasn't worked for them. The web is freakin' huge and what works for KW1 may not work for KW2 and nobody knows google's algo (or anybody else's for that matter).

So, decide on an approach, devise a strategy and plan, and go about it. Using automation vs. manual is akin (to me) to using power tools vs. doing things by hand. Both work. One can be very destructive if you don't know what you're doing, but it can also get the job done A LOT FASTER.

Bottom line: If you were to simply automate what you were going to do manually, you have only recouped time/money and not really lost anything, right?

I have been using Contentbuzz to help automate my SEO. It is not a spam tool at all. It just helps you organize. It also times your submissions to seem more natural and members of the network automatically bookmark each others sites gradually. Nice tool and definitely not a spam tool.

Hmm things are pretty intense here.

Aww well, you can easily find automation tools by first deciding on what kind of backlink methods you will employ. From there, you will do a simple search. If you do softwares, there is robosoft. If you do bookmarking, there is bookmarking demon. It will really depend on the promotion that you will do. With a little research, it will get you there.

Say I wanted to build profile links, bookmarking, article and video marketing. Is there anything that does all of these in one? Or would it be better to get different software for each one?
Any recommendations?

Bill has completely hit the nail on the head.

The very first thing you need to do is devise your own strategy. This could be as simple as carpet bombing the appropriate articles directories with your articles, to devising very complex linkwheels that include articles directories, web 2.0 sites, video sites, sub-linkwheels and more.

Whatever you decide to do, any sort of automation should merely be an extension of your strategy.

In other words, your strategy should be something that you could carry out by hand in a manual fashion, regardless of how cumbersome it could become. Then, when you go the automated route, it simply allows you to perform the exact same processes, but in a quicker fashion and on a grander scale.

Another way to look at it - if you wanted to accomplish your strategy in a less labor-intensive fashion and on a grander scale, instead of automation, you could hire a team of outsourcers to do the same thing.

Bill's example of hand tools vs power tools is perfect, IMO.

So in the end, if you wanna choose an automation software/service, as yourself what your strategy is, and will this automation service allow you to accomplish your strategy?

Link Building in highly competitive markets is not related in any form or shape to using software. Yes you can do research with software but that's about it. The secret sauce is in the guy that can put the pieces of information together.

Now the thing is, to become that guy, you will need to go through a natural learning curve. Manual link building being just one of the many steps. This is how good seo's become good. They experience what's working and what's not firsthand and then they devise processes that concentrate on the things that are working.

For the question:What software is the best in order to automate SEO. Pretty much none. I have software like xrumer in my arsenal that cost me $550 and nowadays I'm not using it at all. I have found that is not where the leverage is. Keep in mind though that I am talking about competitive markets.

In low competition markets you can get results with software(if you wish to do it this way): something like senuke or xrumer(if you re advanced). But in the near future you're still going to need to adapt and do a more natural type of link building.

For outsourcing, it's similar to having a project manager. He is in charge of the seo side of your business. He constructs the processes and then either does them himself or finds people to do it. The big problem though is finding someone that knows what he's doing.

alexbbbh,

I know exactly how you feel. I was in your exact same situation not too long ago.

If you're looking for software, the only backlinks you can build IMO, without SPAMMING, is software which submits RSS feeds, Social bookmarks, directory submissions, video submissions and article submissions.

My recommendation for the software would be Incansoft | Experience The Difference Today!

Incansoft is amazing, free updates for life, and I can guarantee you their software is cheaper than anywhere else. They have an incredible selection of software including everything I've recommended you do with software.

I wouldn't recommend spinners, blog commenting bots, forum posters, or anything along those lines.

And as far as outsourcing SEO to a "person", I would recommend outsourcing people build you linkwheels.

I know that linkwheels have many definitions these days, but IMO, by outsourcing a link wheel, you have a person create a property at various web 2.0 sites including, wordpress.com, blogger, hubpages, squidoo and stuff like that.

Have a 300 to 500 word post made at each property, with a link to the previous web 2.o property, and a link to your main site.

That's all I outsource personally, you can't trust anyone to build your backlinks properly without causing you problems.

PM me if you have any questions, I'd be glad to help.

I agree with PhilipSEO, using any backlink building that has very little of spamming will only hurt your website, I found that no matter how good you hear about any software in the market to achieve those good results of backlink building and driving traffic to your website but eventually it will have bad impact on your website ranking.

I normally use:
Backlinking sites (stumbleUpon, Redgage etc)
Links between hubs
Participating in forum
Social sites
Promote on own blog

This 5 is something I always use.

The best is till backlinks which i see the most 'returns'.