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OK, so you do your homework.  You go to a site like the Vilesilencer one and you open a word document that contains all the information you're going to need to paste - the site title, URL, brief description, long description, keywords, contact name, e-mail address etc.

Then you start working through the lists.  You get to your first site, finally find a category that you think fits, read all the submission criteria, agree that as well as providing a reciprocal link you will also sell your children to itinerant gypsies before they reach the age of five, and then off you go.

Right, I see, too many words in that description category, too few in this - re-write them, back to the beginning, off we go again.  OK, everything in place, just type in these obscure letters so safeguard against robots - and especially robots with bloody good eyesight - from automatically submitting and... ah, right, I mis-typed the hierioglphyics, let me have one more shot at it.

Finally, when you think you've got everything in, just the way it should be - and accepted that it might take the directory owners five years until they can get round to reviewing that submission - you hit the SUBMIT button and... wait... and wait...

Time-out, try again.

Or, the website is invalid or the host is unavailable, or, or, or.

What a completely frustrating exercise and those are 30 minutes of my life that I'm not going to get back.  When I'm on my death bed and the priest asks me if there's anything I'd like to say before I depart this earth, I'll say, "Yeah, tell those c***s at AAAWebDirectory that their directory is a pile of sh..."

RIP

Ahhh the life of submitting. I hit one in 10 sites when I was doing this. Not fun at all. You make a nice long what is your site and when you come to these sites you cut the what is your site down to make it fit.

also helps if you got robofrom to fill out all the info. I would not surf the net without it. One click of a button and all info is placed in the spots it is suppose to. Never again will I have to fill out those long forums for I got roboform

Your can test drive a copy today.

Autofill boys! Never leave home without it!

Well the actual benefit in the SE's is currently under discussion with the rest of the cogs in the machine.  The acceptance rate for articles and press releases is 70-100% when done by me (it was around 10% when outsourcing) and plenty of them do get indexed (which they didn't when outsourcing).

I have list of around 100 PR & Article directories from which I compile a top 20 based on live links allowed in the body, do follow links, approval rate and page rank (to keep the customers happy, they're still PR obsessed  ) 

Keeping a close eye on where you submit too means you can filter out the directories which never seem to review the submissions, or never seem to approve them, or never appear in my google alerts.

Each client gets 10's of submissions a month so it's what i'd call slow and steady link building for each site.