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jastebolPerhaps seonuke but be very very careful – you have to know seo inside out to come up with an effective backlink strategy with this tool. Quite a few people actually stay away from it as it creates spammy link wheels which could boost your SEO (again, if you know what you are doing) yet are not beneficial to the end user. My take is that at the end of the day all SEO tools are black hat and not to use them at all is not an option in my opinion, if you are looking for a massive SEO impact. I guess it is up to you how much of SEO and link building you want to automate and as will all things you have to find a golden mean somewhere. For instance, you can write quality articles and submit them to quality article directories to attract users and leave your links. You can spin original articles (with article spinners or by hand – your choice) and submit their multiple versions on the web in directories of lower quality. You can completely automate backlink building by using tools like seonuke but you can also use backlink checker tools like seo spyglass or services like majestic to find competitor backlinks and go after competitors’ best links. You will probably go through quite a few tools and make a few blunders as you go but SEO is all about experiments – so keep on trying, measure, test, see what works for you and your niche.

jastebolI personally think that Xrumer is a great tool for what it does (ie automated linkbuilding). But I also think that this type of automation is not for everyone (not at the beginner seo levels thats for sure) and that there is a horde of other activities that must be done and SEO tools that must be used in addition to it. – Firstly, if you rely on Xrumer exclusively – you are augmenting your site’s popularity, primarily among search engines. But imagine you getting on page 1 (quite possible with this type of tool) and having REAL people click on your site. If your site looks like a junkyard and spam – then what’s the point of being on page one in the first place? You need to do onpage SEO, write a nice website copy and compel the reader to read, buy, subscribe, or whatever it is you want him/her to do. So you see, SEO is not just about automated link building. – Secondly, in real-life SEO (and I mean REAL, not some pretty rosy stories and tips in SEO guides by Google) people do a healthy mix of automated and hand-made link building. Do just handwork – and you may take forever to build links. Outsource your link creation to automated link builders – and you may get into hot water with SE’s for building links “unnaturally”. So you see, in real life it is not about white hats or black hats – it’s about juggling somewhere in between trying to please both search engines and people. – Thirdly, you can control the level of automation you do with SEO tools. Some programs like Xrumer are for 100% automated link creation while others like LinkAssitsant or SEO SpyGlass are semi-automatic if you can call it that. Such tools help you find and rate links from niche-relevant sites (and if you are still iffy about your niche, Rank Tracker is a first before you do anything else with any other tool). But it is up to you which links to target for your own link building. Once you’ve found such links, you can use these tools to track how much traffic each backlink brings. Semi-automatic yet very effective as you are building not only links but relationships with webmasters in your niche + still getting natural links. In a perfect world, with a perfect budget, I recommend getting both automatic and semi-automatic SEO tools – as real world link building & seo is about both.