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Today it’s time to tell you about two kick-ass link building and SEO tools you really don’t want to miss out on. As our faithful regular readers know, we’re very sparing with promoting third party products because 99% of them simply don’t meet our stringent quality standards. Here are two notable exceptions.

Peter Drew’s BruteForceSEO (which we introduced here a few weeks ago) has finally launched and it’s arguably the most powerful white hat SEO tool out there money will buy you.

BruteForceSEO covers such nifties as automatic account creation on a slew of different platforms (ranging from Gmail accounts to Wordpress blogs and a chockfull – 40+ – social networks) to RSS feed creation and submission.

Even more powerful, perhaps, is his Gold Digger (ok, never mind the corny name…) niche keyword research tool which lets you drill down to a vast range of highly specific targeted key phrases – which can then be leveraged via the entire setup for optimal results.

It also comes with plenty of explanatory videos and an extensive pdf report outlining the entire process in detail.

Mini case study of our own

Using only one single segment of his recommended tactics and tools we managed to dominate the first two pages of Google with 7 results out of 20 in less than 12 (!) hours yesterday – and that, again, was merely a microscopic part of what his system actually allows you to do!

And a #3 rank on Ask was thrown in for good measure. Really not too bad for about 5 minutes’ labor…

Update: See our more detailed analysis including a SERP screenshot here.

You can test drive it for 7 days for a mere buck, after which subscription will be $97 per month which is more than reasonable. Peter has announced that only 1,000 slots will be available at that price. Once filled (as were his 1k affiliate partner slots within appr. 2 weeks), price will go up “by at least 50%” – and if you know him (of BadAssRSS etc. fame) even only a bit you won’t harbor any doubts that he’s dead serious about this.

So make sure to check out BruteForceSEO here!

Another cool service we’ve come across is PostLater: this one allows you to post your content in a scheduled manner across tons of different blogging platforms (including micro blogging sites like Twitter) in a scheduled manner: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, FriendFeed… the list goes on. Note that this even encompasses platforms that don’t of themselves allow for scheduled posting – arguably the most convenient aspect of them all!

Scheduled posting allows you to streamline your workflow: set up your submission campaigns in one fell swoop, then forget about them and devote your time to less mechanical and more lucrative tasks such as marketing and customer support.

Admittedly we do have our beef with some features. For instance: once posted, your article lists will disappear from the system without a trace. Thus, if you have to log your submissions in detail (and which power poster and serious, methodical link builder doesn’t?) you’re out in the woods as far as PostLater is concerned. So make sure you log and save your submission data externally to ensure your capacity for keeping track of your activities.

Also, if you’re submitting heavily to free hosted blog platforms you may be a bit peeved seeing how many of them actually prevent remote scheduled posting. This, of course, isn’t PostLater’s fault: if a platform administrator decides not to implement their API or XML/RPC interface, there’s nothing the service can do about it. They will, however, give you a range of helpful tips on how to possibly make it come about all the same, most of which involve getting in touch with the respective platform provider and having them specify a number of technical parameters you can then use to configure submission via PostLater manually.

Furthermore, PostLater supports just about any language including lots of different character sets, be it Western/Roman, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese or whatnot. This is especially useful for all you international and multi lingual marketers out there.

Finally, at only $9.95 a month this service is a real steal.

Check out PostLater here.

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