Exactly my thoughts............ As with any director, from DMOZ to a PR1 thats been going for two months, submit and forget it
Directory submission is not usually a way to instant rankings, since some directories are crawled infrequently. You can also never tell which PR2 directory will later grow into a large, popular resource with good PR and promotion.
You get what you pay for, are you expecting on getting high quality, high PR links from free directories like obelia says you might get lucky and get one fantastic link on each 100 directory submission if the directory makes it big time, and doesn’t erase the previous free database as a loot do.
Great tips! I searched for those and found a bunch of sites I can submit to. This is better than blindingly submiting to any directory. hate myself for not thinking of this sooner.
I found 1,800 backlinks, but most are from clients sites (I am a web hosting provider) and my articles. I couldn't find that many back links from directories.
I don't do directory submission for my sites, BTW. I found it time consuming and boring. I just submit to DMOZ (all relevant categories) and Yahoo (if uncommerical). Sometimes (10%) I get DMOZ listing. It gaves my 80 backlinks on Yahoo because of DMOZ Also, I found most directories worthless for visitors - it might mean worthless for search engines, too.
I think google counts links alot different that yahoo or Msn. Most sites have thousands of links in yahoo and hundreds if that in googles list. Google also seems very slow to update links and rank of sites. They used take few days to weeks now it takes weeks to months. Directories i would say some of the top ones like yahoo and few others make the big difference. Most small ones seem to have little effect compared to them. Links on other sites make more sense to me.