Are all link building tools bh tools and does Google see all automated link building as bh?

Are all link building tools bh tools and does Google see all automated link building as bh?

Link development, backlink building, whatever you call it. It's SEO. You're building links to SEO your site. But are all links built equal? Does using an automated link building tool to automate your link building in anyway make you a bh in the eyes of Google?

Some people say when it comes to using tools like senuke, xrumer, gsa, scrapebox etc to build links with that it's only how you use these tools that makes them bh tools or how you use them that makes you a bh SEO.

I get that some tools are a part of doing SEO such as page analyzers, metric checkers, or even spreadsheets is a tool of some kind but these don't build links for you. I'm talking about any software program that builds or creates links for you of any kind.

What's Google's view on using automated software program tools to build links with and does it consider all tools that build links for you automatically, bh tools? Or is it really the way you use it that makes them or you bh?

I personally think that not all link building tools are bh and that using one to automate some link building task for you isn't bh either. I think that these tools can be used to do bh link building with. But they can also be used responsibly too. I think they get a bad name because people use them badly and Google knows how powerful backlinks can be and don't want people to use tools like these to build links with in any way shape or form. But if you don't use a tool to do it with, you outsource it to a freelancer or SEO firm. And that doesn't make you a bh to do that either. Either that or you do it yourself manually by hand. Does that mean that is white hat SEO though? So seeing as you can still do bh SEO by hand. You can also do white hat SEO with a tool.

Or is the way Google sees it different and it sees any tool or program that builds links for you using a bot like method as bh?

What do you think / know about this?

On the Google Webmaster Guidelines, it doesn't say anything about using tools only not to participate in link schemes and not to use "Automatically generated content". But it doesn't actually say anything about Automatically generated links does it?

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