If you want to make a living online from blogs, SEO is perhaps the most important tool for your success. With proper SEO, you can continue to get thousands of free web visitors from search engines like Google, 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 one-way links to your site. Although there are tons of other factors that the SEO "gurus" talk about, to be honest these are not as vital as the three main factors I just mentioned above.

Perhaps the most critical element of SEO is getting unique one-way links to your blog. The more the better of course, but the quality of these incoming links also matter. Google sees a one-way link as a vote of confidence for your site.

Although you can try to build incoming links the traditional way by writing useful content and leaving comments on other blogs, there are also several blogging software that can help you out. Some of these blogging software are so revolutionary that not many people know about them, let alone use them effectively.

For example, tools like 1-Way Links and Article Marketing Automation allow you to submit unique versions of the same article to an entire network of blogs. Since each blog is using an article that is at least 30% unique, Google will recognize all of them.

Article marketing the usual 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 JetSubmitter which can spawn more than 300 unique versions of the same article using a "content spinning" approach.

Of course, you need to use caution when using such tools. Getting too many links in a short time raises a red flag. Google will love your site is the links are slow and natural.