How important is the directories? I submitted my sites to many directories but when I checked it via yahoo, none of them are counted as backlinks, why is that? One more question, where can I find an effective link exchange services?
It might be because you submited your site not long ago. It sometimes needs a month to be approved and another to get the link followed and counted by SEs.
From how many did you receive confirmation.Usually they send an email when you are accepted and listed.Also even if you are listed your link may be too "hidden". It happens.In this case you can make a blog on wordpress.com and blogger, put some content (no need to be original) and trow the links to the pages you are listed.This worked for me in most of the cases.
I've wondered the same thing. I have links on BOTW and other big directories and haven't yet seen them (fairly new). I figured Google doesn't care for those backlinks.
i have some question * are your submissions accepted by the directories that you submit? * are the page of those directories indexed by Y or G?
(Y)Yahoo and (G)Google... i've heard that submitting to directories are useless effort unless you submit it top directories like DMOZ and Yahoo directory.
*some of them, yes. (I received emails from each of them) and the other are still pending. But I checked my backlinks in yahoo, none from the directories. *what do you mean? I think yes because I submitted to free directories which their PR is more than 4. anyway one of my websites links are growing at the moment and I am happy with that. But it is growing because of another building link methods and I can't find any backlinks from directories...do you think I am using the incorrect tools? To check backlinks, I usually used onestopwebmasters.com. (sometimes they can't tell you about your backlinks)