Webmasters use directory submissions all the time to promote there links its only now they are questioning weather they are still as good as they used to be. Directories are still around and google still favors them but due to the vast amount of directories out there it is easy to submit your site to one of the poor quality ones.
I use manual and automatic directory submissions all the time to promote my websites and they still produce good results but you have to find the good directories to promote on first.
Theres no point searching google for “top directory sites” as theres quite allot of outdated information, so you will need to do abit of research first before submitting your site to any directory. You can use the “top sites” to begin looking for decent directories, you should check to see if google has favored them enough to assign them a pagerank and you should also check to see if all the categories are indexed in google as well.
Once you have compiled your list of quality directories you now want to search them for the most relevant page for your submission and then submit your content for review.
The main reason we still use directories is not to get traffic from them but to help promote our chosen keywords in google, good quality diretories can help you gain better serp’s. Along time ago directories used to produce a lot of traffic, some still do, but finding them is the tricky part.
Theres a great directory submissions company I use caled directorysubmissions.eu, they claim to be the biggest submissions compnay in Europe and after reading through a few posts in there blog I got the impression they know more about directory submissions than your average user. Even though there based in Europe they still offer the best prices I have seen on the net, and the quality of there work is really good.