Here's my take on the directories. Now that the SE's are getting more strict about how they rank sites I think those directories are becoming less and less advantageous and that's mainly for the reasons attackdepression mentioned. They know everyone is using them to boost their inbound links and it doesn't necessarily mean the sites are good, quality sites so the directories are having less and less of an impact.

I used joeant about three years ago when I was building content/affiliate sites and it used to bring it me a ton of traffic. But I'm not sure I'd receive the same results in 2007. But maybe someone else who has recently submitted can chime in.

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