terryallen

I definitely agree, you need to stay clear of these types of submissions. They will not help you and can only harm you. If you are serious about submitting to directories, then I would suggest a professional submission service such as http://www.isellpr.com/. I have personally used their services and they are very "clean" and respectable.

You are right to a certain point. With the billion or so websites available on the internet these days, you can certainly still find these types of sites. It just takes a little bit more effort that it did a few years ago...

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