Can brute force SEO tools like SENuke help in rankings or somehow get you penalized by the search engines?Can search engines even see that anonter tool has been used to do the SEO? Is, for example, SENuke worth the money?
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Yes, it can help and yes, it can get you penalized.Those tools create lots of links to your site from good social media sites, links from good sites increase site ranking => Those tools can increase ranking.Now, about the penalizing thingI think Google already suspects sites with a sudden increase in links and does something about it (I have no idea what).If brute force tools become a problem for Google (that is, degrade the search results too much) Google will crack down on those tools and I can't believe Google won't be able to find patterns in the tool's automatic generated content.So, any such tool (I don't know anything about senuke specifically) is probably worth the money, until you get caught and get penalized.Update: everything below the line was added after the answer was marked as accepted, so the question poster may not agree with it - I just had to go back and update my answer.Using senuke or other brute force SEO is spamming, its filling other sites with junk without their owners permission, its actively making it harder to find information by filling the internet with what is basically just pollution  it may be an effective way to make more money but so is sending spam e-mails (or dumping toxic waste from a factory into a nearby field and polluting the land instead of handling that waste properly).Please dont do it, its just evil, you're better than that.