Link building can be such a drag!
Really, manual submission can be so so so so tedious, first of all you have to find a good list of directories that you haven’t submitted to before and then for each and every directory on the list:
- Check that they don’t require reciprocal links (cos that’s what we prefer)
- Check you can afford the price (if you’re lucky it will be free)
- Search for the category that fits your website - for some sectors this can be quite impossible!
- Modify your description to fit the directory’s requirements - oh the tears when they have a minimum length that’s much longer than any of your standard descriptions
- Press the submit button (or equivalent)
- Wait for the confirmation email (some of them require you visit a link - ugh!)
Over and over and over again.
Sorry for the rant - had to let it out !