I see there are a lot of people happy with the directory submission services. I'd like to hear how it affected your serps.
my msn and yahoo backlinks have jumped a bunch...not much google though...but that wasn't really a surprise.
Google doesn't show ALL backlinks, so it is hard to judge. It's a given your backlink count will increase when you submit to directories. However the important question is if your rank/position/traffic changed ?
my titles were all keyword phrases, so I got a nice little bump on the msn/yahoo side...but that's really the only reason to do free dirs is for the msn/yahoo love. google seems to pick up on the bigger directories like botw, sbd.bcentral, and abilogic though.