SubmitToDirectories Alternative: The Generic Package Problem

Generic submission packages are the commodity of this niche: pay once, get listed widely, receive a spreadsheet. They are not useless. They are simply priced against the wrong number, and buyers rarely notice until the second package.

The short answer

The honest split: SubmitToDirectories sells the attempt, BoostDomainRating sells the placement. One produces a list of forms someone filled in; the other produces a countable set of followed domains inside infrastructure we operate. Tiers run $30 for 5 links, $50 for 10, $90 for 20, $120 for 30, $140 for 40, $150 for 50 dofollow backlinks, every placement carries its own DR detail page, and the set is refundable for 90 days.

What to ask before paying

Ask for the category breakdown of the list. Generic packages are only usable if a meaningful slice matches your category.

What SubmitToDirectories does

A broad directory submission service covering general, startup and niche catalogs, sold in packages defined by destination count.

Why founders look for an alternative

The list mixes high and low quality catalogs indiscriminately.
No relevance filtering for your category.
Attribute and indexation checks are absent.
Repeat purchase required for each new product.

The structural limit

Destination count is the metric being sold, not followed placements. Expect a quarter of the headline to survive as useful links.

Why ownership keeps coming up

A directory you do not own is a directory you cannot schedule. Publishing dates, review standards and link attributes all belong to someone with different priorities.

How BoostDomainRating compares

	SubmitToDirectories	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

Five placements cost $30; fifty cost $150. Between those two points sit ten, twenty, thirty and forty, priced linearly rather than with a bundle discount, because there is no submission labour to amortise — the placements are inserted into catalogues we already run.

What SubmitToDirectories gets right

Coverage at low cost per destination, and a decent starting point for a domain with no citations at all.

If you would rather stay manual

Manual submission has one advantage money cannot buy: you see the rejections yourself. After ten forms you will know exactly which categories your product fits and which catalogues are dead, which makes every later purchase better informed. See the walkthrough.

Sampling the list before you pay

You can grade a package in twenty minutes without buying it. Take the destination list, pick ten domains at random, and for each one answer four questions: does the site load, does it have indexed pages, does an existing listing link out with or without nofollow, and when was the newest entry published?

The pattern shows up quickly. In most generic lists, three or four of ten are effectively dead, three publish without review and nofollow by default, and two or three are genuinely useful. That ratio is the honest headline number, and no vendor will state it for you.

Building the replacement list yourself

The useful version of a 1,000-destination package is sixty destinations you chose. Start with the catalogues whose category pages rank for terms your buyers search, add the ones where you have seen a competitor listed, then stop. Sixty relevant placements on sixty live domains beat a thousand rows in a spreadsheet, and the sheet is the only artefact that survives ninety days either way.

Where the money goes instead

BoostDomainRating runs the other side of that trade: 50+ indexed, dofollow directories we operate ourselves, priced from $30 for 5 placements to $150 for 50. Every placement has an openable page and a DR figure refreshed daily, and the set carries a 90-day refund if the links do not hold. You are buying a known list rather than a sample of an unknown one.

FAQ

How many of the submissions actually go live?

Roughly seventy percent, of which around half are followed, of which a portion get indexed. Audit to know your own numbers.

Is the cheapest package a reasonable test?

Yes — buy the smallest, audit ten listings, then decide whether to scale.

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.