If someone’s told you that directory submissions are easy; well, frankly, they don’t know what they’re talking about.  Even if all there was to directory submissions is finding a directory, locating the correct category and inputting a barrage of website information, trying to read the sporadic, distraught text on the verification images: you have to deal with having your IP address being constantly banned by the directory owners.

Likely if you have one or two websites you are submitting you will not run into this issue.  It seems to me, based on my experiences anyway, that when you get into submitting 5 or 10 or even 20 websites: some directory owners have a fit.  In all honesty, I don’t see what the issue is, I own a directory and I don’t ban IP addresses even if I get 20 submissions a day from the same person: as long as the sites conform to my guidelines.

Now, in all fairness, directory owners can do whatever they want with their directories.  SEO’s don’t have privilege to instruct these owners on how to run or maintain their directories.  However, to be frank, a lot of these directories would not be what they are today without the help of people like me, the people submitting a great deal of varied websites to these directories.

What can be done?  Just an occupational hazard I suppose.

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