At first glance, Sky High Linker comes across as one of those home made solutions that often come packaged at the end of a hard-sell website. While it's true that a large software house hasn't created the product, it's also true that this is actually a nifty little piece of software.

Sky High Linker is packed with features. It's simple enough for anybody to use, and yet it really does automate tasks and get the job done. The software is primarily a content submission tool (i.e. it will distribute your content far and wide) but also has some additional research features.

So how does it stack up against our Buyer's Guide criteria?

Competitor research

Check. The software will reveal all of the back links that your competitors have. This is a great way to uncover potential link partners for your own website. It will also allow you to discover which keywords your competitors target, and what anchor text is used in the links to them rankings.

Identify link partners

As mentioned above, link partners are identified through analysis of your competitors inbound links. The potential partners can be ranked according to various factors.

Account creation

The software semi-automates the process of creating accounts on the various article directories and news websites that you'll be using.

Content optimization

Sky High Linker can create 250 slightly different articles from your one unique one. That's 250 hours worth of work from one hour of writing. The software does not suggest topics however.

Automated submission

This is the core of Sky High Linker. The software submits to 4,000+ web directories, 1,200 article websites and 60+ press release sites. It also distributes blog, news item and forum comments and posts to thousands of websites.

Social bookmarking

Semi-automated posting of links via social media is included, although not as comprehensively as XGenSEO.

Help and support

The software author is clearly an expert in his field and is very responsive to questioning. Apart from extensive help files and tutorials however there is no formal support process.

Overall we rate this piece of software pretty highly. It creates lots of value by quickly accumulating inbound links. Unlike a reciprocal link campaign, the links are generally all one-way with maximum Google juice potential. I see Sky High Linker as a complimentary piece of software to other website marketing tools and well worth having if you are serious about SEO.