Quote Originally Posted by Milo Odin View Post
Trust me now days these things not work at all like 1,3,4,7,11
Site owners became obsessed with submitting their sites to as many directories as possible, regardless of quality or relevancy.

After some time, Google decided enough was enough and started devaluing links from directories, removing directories from their index, and in some cases where the submissions were so poor, sending site owners unnatural link warnings and applying penalties. (note – typically this was due to a completely unnatural link profile that was over optimised with excessive usage of a particular money term)