SEO Software utilities

My main goal was to find link generation and/or management software, here is
what I found..

I have downloaded the demos for SEO Elite and Arelis and found the features
of both programs to be very similar. The major differences to me were:

1. SEO Elite Clearly shows the PageRank of competitors and link partners
pages. Very useful.

2. Arelis Can build a link directory that can be easily dropped into your
existing site, making link management very easy. (I haven't tested this)

Other than this, the feature list looked quite similar. I though the GUI of
SEO Elite was superb, a complete no brainer. Call me old fashioned but I
believe that if you need to refer to a help file to use a feature that you
bought the product for, then the GUI aint no good!

I have read a little on the following but have no practical experience:

IBP - Just a glorified submission tool I thought.

Optilink - Looks very good but I was a little unnerved by the installation
instructions page (http://www.optilinksoftware.com/download.html) Call me
lazy but I just want a big red button that says "Download demo" on it. I
will have a closer look at this app soon.

I have looked at several other SEO link building/management utilities, but
nothing really blew me away. Can anyone provide some insight and opinions on
these type of tools that will help me decide which to buy?

Thanks,

Paul

Paul H wrote:

Call me old fashioned but I
believe that if you need to refer to a help file to use a feature that you
bought the product for, then the GUI aint no good!

Point taken, but if you don't read the excellent help file that Arelis
provides, you are missing some excellent information - not on how to use the
program - but how to improve your results.

I'm starting to sound like an Arelis affiliate. Just for the record, I'm not.
Don't know the folks - have nothing to do with them. I just think it is a very
well laid out program.

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Brad Blanchard
Website http://www.braser.com
Email accepted from the website

Paul H wrote:

My main goal was to find link generation and/or management software, here is
what I found..

I have downloaded the demos for SEO Elite and Arelis and found the features
of both programs to be very similar. The major differences to me were:

1. SEO Elite Clearly shows the PageRank of competitors and link partners
pages. Very useful.

2. Arelis Can build a link directory that can be easily dropped into your
existing site, making link management very easy. (I haven't tested this)

Other than this, the feature list looked quite similar. I though the GUI of
SEO Elite was superb, a complete no brainer. Call me old fashioned but I
believe that if you need to refer to a help file to use a feature that you
bought the product for, then the GUI aint no good!

I have read a little on the following but have no practical experience:

IBP - Just a glorified submission tool I thought.

Optilink - Looks very good but I was a little unnerved by the installation
instructions page (http://www.optilinksoftware.com/download.html) Call me
lazy but I just want a big red button that says "Download demo" on it. I
will have a closer look at this app soon.

I have looked at several other SEO link building/management utilities, but
nothing really blew me away. Can anyone provide some insight and opinions on
these type of tools that will help me decide which to buy?

Thanks,

Paul

Hi Paul,

I use Arelis - though am not affiliated - and am quite pleased with it.
There are a couple of things I find particularly excellent. You can
import all links off a competitors page or a DMOZ page. It doesn't
duplicate entries unless you want it to.

It can be a bit of work getting the templates to look how you would like
them to - but once done, very easy to tweak and to copy to another project.

It's desktop based so no tricky installations to go through. You can
download a trial version to see if you can get on with it and i would
say do that before committing to it as it's quite expensive.

Hope this helps you to make a decision!

Good luck!

Jez.

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:52:34 GMT, "Paul H" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote:

My main goal was to find link generation and/or management software, here is
what I found..

I have downloaded the demos for SEO Elite and Arelis and found the features
of both programs to be very similar. The major differences to me were:

1. SEO Elite Clearly shows the PageRank of competitors and link partners
pages. Very useful.

2. Arelis Can build a link directory that can be easily dropped into your
existing site, making link management very easy. (I haven't tested this)

Other than this, the feature list looked quite similar. I though the GUI of
SEO Elite was superb, a complete no brainer. Call me old fashioned but I
believe that if you need to refer to a help file to use a feature that you
bought the product for, then the GUI aint no good!

I have read a little on the following but have no practical experience:

IBP - Just a glorified submission tool I thought.

They are releasing a new version any day. I only use it for rank
checking and it does do a very professional report you can export to
pdf with it.

BB
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