More or less. The automation wont help with captchas (unless it has some pretty funky OCR capabilities - (such doesn't exist yet)). The only way it will work is to submit via an automation tool that detects deviations from known results and collates same for later manual submission. Essentially, it seems to me an automated approach is the only way you're going to save real time. Otherwise, do it all manually. Trying for a mix means you have to establish criteria. And you cant do that unless you visit each directory manually; and if you're going to do that you might as well do it all manually... Good luck
Directory submission is a one off thing and should take next to no time at all. There're renewable resources in the form of article submission. When manually submitting to directories takes me the course of a few days and I'm making sites at the rate of a few per day, automation becomes a MUST. You may get a lower approval rate, but certain automators work practically flawlessly. Even if you do get rejections, fair enough - it's just a backlink or two you're missing out on, nothing you can't make up with a good article drop or co-op weight droppage (although the latter may not be so effective these days ). Would you rather spend 15 minutes getting 150 backlinks (and spending the rest of the time writing 10 articles, each of which can yield 100-200 links EACH), or 3 days getting 200? It's microeconomics.
I have used both. I was skeptical about automated directory submission but iowadawg submitted few of my sites. Surprisingly, I had more acceptances with his automated submission. I'd like to continue using a combination of both methods.
i've had some bad experience with automated submitting, so i would like everybody suggest manual submission, and some knowledge of the site you're submitting to.
Manual submission with the aid of software (form fillers for faster submissions) Completely automatic submissions are NOT WORKING Have tried lazyseo and a bunch of other services and they fail to submit to the correct categories (or have limited choices for categories)