If you want to make a living online from blogs, SEO is perhaps the most important tool for your success. With correct SEO, you can literally get thousands of free visitors from Google, and other search engines like Yahoo and MSN.

Search engine optimization follows a few basic rules that hardly change over time. You need good content, your pages need to be properly optimized, and most importantly you need lots of inbound links to your site. Although there are tons of other things that the SEO “gurus” talk about, honestly speaking these are not as critical as the three main things I just mentioned above.

Perhaps the most critical element of Search Engine Optimization is getting unique incoming links to your blog. The more the better of course, but the quality of these incoming links also matter. Google interprets a link to your site as a vote of confidence by another site.

Although you can try to build incoming links the traditional way by writing high quality content and leaving comments on other blogs, there are also several blogging software that can help you out. Such revolutionary blogging software are unknown to almost everyone.

For example, tools like 1Way Links and Article Marketing Automation allow you to submit unique versions of the same article to an entire network of blogs. With very little effort, you can easily get thousands of one-way links from related blogs, and since each blog is posting an article that is at least 30% unique, Google will recognize all of them.

Article marketing the old way just generates duplicate content which search engines have learned to ignore, so if you want to succeed today you should try using tools like Jet Submitter Pro which can spawn more than 300 unique variations of the same article using a “content spinning” method.

Of course, you need to use caution when using such tools. Please do not generate too many links too fast. Let your links build naturally and slowly, and Google will love you for it.