SEO (search engine optimization) can be a lot of hard work. Trying to get your sites to climb the SERPs (search engine results page) can take hundreds of hours of work or more depending on how competitive the keyword one is going after. If you put SEO tools to work for you then you can make your work a lot easier and more efficient. SEO tools come in many different shapes and sizes for a variety of prices. A lot of people spend thousands of dollars on these tools and often don't need to. With the point of SEO being to make money online you often need to spend money to make money, but you also need to make sure you're getting the best value possible for your money.

Think about it this way. How much is your time worth? I generally value my time at around $15/hr but for you it may be more or less. If a tool costs $75 then all it needs to save me is 5 hours over it's lifetime. If it costs $15 then saving me one hour makes it worth while.

One of the easiest ways to get backlinks to your site is by getting your RSS feed picked up by content syndication sites. Basically they show an exerpt of your post on their site and send you a link back to the post. It's a great way to develop deep links to your site.

There are a lot of places you can submitt your RSS feed, but it's just one more task to add to your list. While doing this is quick and easy, when you are doing it for tens or even hundreds of your own sites it becomes a painfull process. That's why I always use and RSS feed submitter. It allows you to submitt your feed to ~30 RSS sites in minutes, as opposed to the same task taking you hours.

The best way I've heard to use a RSS feed submitter is to submit your reglaur feed, then make a feed burner feed and submitt that, finally use a free feed mixer and combine your feed with another and submitt that. In this way you'll get three sets of links from each feed directory.