They are directly related. The more traffic a directory can generate by way of saturation and heavier indexing in SE's, the more link juice you'll see.
I have to admit it does make some sense, but I never heard about this and couldn't find any material on the subject. Also, I find it very hard to believe that search engine will bother measuring the traffic generated through every single link on the WWW every time it crawls it (I'm pretty sure it can't do that even if it wanted to). Can you please provide a source of information that will confirm this?
hmmm.... well I hate to burst your illusion but I use submiteaze and get submission confirmation emails, and then I get inclusion emails, so it definitely does work.
Auto submission can work in the past but now it doesn't work anymore since google is smart to block those trick. So do manual writing by your own. It's better to make white hat to earn money. And even it's a hard work, but you will be happy and get your result back soon
It makes no difference whether you use a piece of software or a web browser to submit. In case you haven't noticed, a web browser *is* a piece of software; it sends messages over an HTTP connection, just like a piece of submission software does. The directory sat at the other end of the wire doesn't know what has sent those messages. If you think it makes a blind bit of difference to submit using a web browser over using submission software then you're mistaken. It makes no difference. The big difference is that you spend hours submitting using a web browser, I spend a couple of minutes setting it up and then press one button. You'll notice that *everyone* who says 'manual is best' has no valid reason of *why* manual is best. Why? Because there is no valid reason, it makes no difference.
The only reason I can think of, is that it's better to change the description a little bit while submitting to different directories. In addition, the higher quality directories usually has a human check, so with automatic submitters your limited to the low end directories Other than that I think you are right
Hire an individual who specializes in directory submission. I heard some people offer 1400 directory submissions for a low price.
Here is a site , semi automated to add your site to directorias , up to 2K Directories , High PR imtalk.org/cmps_index.php?pageid=IMT-Directory-Submitter
I use a mix of manual and auto submission. I haven't encountered any problems using auto submission - I just keep lists of different descriptions and titles so that I'm not flooding the web with the same text for every directory. Doing a few a day seems to work.
A key thing to remember with those that use Auto-Submission. You still need to manually reply to the auto-submission emails to confirm the listing.
SubmitEaze has a tool which will process them automatically. basically point at your mail box and it processes the links: http://www.submiteaze.com/demos/linkconfirmationutility.html great piece of software, saves so much time it's untrue!