SEO Tools after Penguin and Panda?

[Steve]

I worked for a small niche specific SEO company for a year or so. I used an assortment of automated tools such as Sick Submitter, that basically did pinging, whois submissions, article submissions, article scraping and spinning, blog links, etc. I KNOW that to do SEO correctly I have to avoid low quality PR backlinks and they must have unique content attached to them, but how? I now own a small seo / web company of my own, and I'm finding seo to be a hassle to manage. I would like a simplistic strategy to follow for each customer. I would love to run a program again, even if it takes 20 minutes per client to set up.

I'm all ears for suggestions and I really appreciate all your time, help, and tips. Thank you!