SubmitDirs Alternative: Directory Volume and Its Ceiling

Volume has a role. A brand-new domain benefits from being mentioned in many places, and directory submissions are the cheapest way to arrange that. What volume cannot do is guarantee the mentions are followed, indexed or relevant — which is exactly what a DR target requires.

The short answer

There is no scandal in what SubmitDirs does — it distributes listings into catalogues it does not own, which puts publishing dates, link attributes and indexation outside its control. BoostDomainRating closes that gap by operating the catalogues: $30 for 5 links, $50 for 10, $90 for 20, $120 for 30, $140 for 40, $150 for 50 dofollow backlinks, daily-synced Ahrefs DR per placement, 90-day refund.

Why founders look for an alternative

Destination count is not a deliverable you can measure after the fact.
Relevance is unmanaged, so the list pads with catalogs your buyer never visits.
No verification of rel attributes on live pages.
Repeat purchases required for each product or URL.

What SubmitDirs does

A submission service that distributes a product listing across a broad set of directories, priced per package with the count of destinations as the headline.

What to ask before paying

Ask how relevance is enforced. If the answer is 'the list is broad', the package is citation volume and should be priced accordingly.

The structural limit

The package counts submissions. After publishing, indexing and attribute checks, the useful number is usually a quarter of the headline.

Why ownership keeps coming up

Ownership is the whole difference. When a catalogue we run changes its template, we see it; when a third-party catalogue does, you find out by accident months later.

What SubmitDirs gets right

Cost per submission is low, and for citation diversity across independent catalogs, that is a reasonable trade.

How BoostDomainRating compares

	SubmitDirs	BoostDomainRating
Who owns the directories	Third parties	Us
Link attributes	Decided by each catalogue	Dofollow across the network
Time to live	Each catalogue’s queue	Immediate
Proof per placement	Submission log	Detail page with daily Ahrefs DR
Pricing shape	Per package	$30 (5 links) to $150 (50 links)
Refund	Vendor policy	90 days

Placements are sold in five steps from $30 (5 links) to $150 (50 dofollow backlinks), with $50, $90 and $120 covering ten, twenty and thirty. The upper tiers exist mostly for agencies running several products at once.

If you would rather stay manual

If you want to keep the work in-house, budget two evenings for the first ten directories and keep one spreadsheet with the live URL, the rel attribute and the date you checked. The step-by-step guide has the field specs.

When SubmitDirs is still the right call

Volume helps a domain with zero citations look less empty in a tool. That is a real, small benefit — and it is the only one to expect from a broad package.

How relevance should be filtered

A relevant list is built from three constraints, and any package missing one is a list of URLs rather than a channel. The catalogue must have a category your product genuinely belongs in, an audience that reads that category, and a language your buyers search in.

Test it on the destination list you are offered: count how many entries satisfy all three. In a broad package the answer is usually small, and that small set is what you were actually buying.

Price citations as citations

There is nothing wrong with a cheap citation. A site with no audience still passes a referring domain, and a new domain benefits from having fifty of them rather than nine. That is a legitimate, modest purchase and should be priced per citation, not per submission.

The confusion begins when the invoice says "destinations" and the buyer hears "rankings". Set the expectation yourself: of a hundred entries, expect roughly a quarter to be live, followed and indexed, and price the package against that fraction.

Choosing the sixty that matter

The version of this purchase that holds up is smaller and more deliberate: sixty directories you selected, checked once, submitted once, recorded in a sheet. Ours is the compact variant — 50+ owned, indexed, dofollow directories, $30 for five placements to $150 for fifty, no submission labour, no waiting on somebody else's queue.

FAQ

How many directories is enough?

Ten to fifteen with followed links and real relevance beats a hundred auto-approve listings.

Can I verify what SubmitDirs delivered?

Yes — open the listings, inspect the links, check indexation. Do it before buying the next package.

What does BoostDomainRating cost? $30 for 5 dofollow placements up to $150 for 50. Every placement carries an Ahrefs DR figure synced daily, and the set is refundable within 90 days.

Placements you can count

BoostDomainRating will place your product across 50+ indexed, dofollow directories we operate. Plans run from $30 (5 links) to $150 (50 dofollow backlinks), every placement gets a detail page with an Ahrefs DR figure synced daily, and the set is refundable for 90 days.

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