Depends on your tool. If you do it manually, it takes half day. If you use submission tool, the time varies from 0.5 to 60 minutes .
I don't know what you mean "legal". There are many tools.Fastest is fully automated LazySEO, then semi-automated tools, such SubmitEazy, Digixmas Submitter, Website Submitter, AllSubmitter, Submithelper etc, then extension plug-in such as Robocom, Informer ... You can choose what is best for you.
1-2 Hours...Btw i've submitted to around 700 directories with help of inform enter and it took around 14 hours.. Saad
why is it taking you guys so long to do directory submissions? I can submit to 300 directories in a solid hour, by using the auto complete button under firefox, and have my list handy, and read. what I do is open new tabs up in firefox, say for example I'm submitting 200 directories, by the time you get the first few forms field you, you can use auto complete on the rest by just using your arrow button. I do 100 directory submissions a day, and right down how long it takes me to do them.
So it's not best way you can do. If you submit your site to more directories, you need to rotate the anchor text, auto complete feature of firefox can't do that. Try some semi-automated tool, they are much comfortable. And some are free.
yes you can use auto complete, use different rotate your titles then it gets stored in the cookies, and then reuse them again
As I know, two semi-automated tools can do it better: AllSubmitter and Digixmas Submitter. They open your own directory list in 10 browsers (in Firefox Tabs style) at one time, auto fill the submit form with automatic rotation of anchor text. But they aren't free .
I will be getting 512 k in few days with 5 gb bandwidth limit ..Anyway i think MB with no limits will come here when GB will be introduced in US.. Saad
I am using the firefox tool for submission and its taking around 3 hours to submit with different anchor text.