You should never think about doing some auto link building strategy to rank your site. Its not wise to use these software that will blast your site to thousands of site with your anchor text...it's not worth it. What does work if you are trying to get some great back links..is to do commenting on comlov.com type websites. But like any other site you have to add value to the site by leaving an great comment..and you will be rewarded. I will love to know what you guys thought about this..is this something you all will consider.
uhmm, yup I have to agree with you... but since commenting on blogs are time consuming, that is why people are still purchasing those softwares.
I would agree that blasting your site with thousand of backlinks in 24 hours is pretty big bright red flag but that doesn't mean autolinking is all bad. You just have to schedule your autolinking over time, maybe 100 links/week. Then you don't have to spend the time commenting and you don't get de-indexed by The Goog.