a newbie question

Hi all,

I have been doing SEO for about 6 months now my self on my sites, I have build a nice tactic that seems to work well but is very much time consuming for me, I want to save time by automating some of my tasks.

What would tools/software would you recommend that is ESSENTIAL for SEO to maximize results vs time.

A big part of my day is free listings (hub pages, backpages, inetgiant, ezlocal etc, reviews, RSS submitting.

I have about 30 domain in a niche market (home services like carpet cleaning, etc)

Thanks

I am not sure what is the manual task that you are doing so I do not know of any particular tool that can do your job. However, Scrapebox + AMR should get anyone started.

Every day I am doing free listings on sites like backpage, olx, hotfrog, etc..
My sites are for home services across Los Angeles, so I am posting in every city in LA and Orange county. I have about 70 cities total and to post those in so many directories, it taking me long time and I was wondering is there is a set of tools that can help me do that.
Also if there are free tools that are recommended for type of marketing.

Also RSS feeds software and directory submitter if you know any good free ones.