Software or automation tools used?

Hi guys

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I'm new in this field and wonder what sort of software the SEOs using and for what purpose. Hope the SEOs here can share their information, experience and direction.

Example, for search engine submission, what software do you use? Do you do it manually? If so, why? For checking link popularity, for other tasks, etc..

Cheers

search submission... unneeded.

I used:
wordtracker for keyword research. sometimes also google adwords sandbox, google suggest, and yahoo search term suggestion tool as well,

thepermutator for comming up w keyword permutation for adwords

and for link analysis I created a few free tools.
hubfinder to find topical hubs.
link harvester to dig deep through yahoo backlink information.
back link analyzer for doing anchor text analysis.
all 3 are free

I use digital point's free keyword ranking checker.

some other various tools are also useful, like using xenu for finding broken links, etc.