Manual directory submission takes 4-5 minutes, if some properly categorized it.

I have not calculated the time spent in the directory memory, but try to find free directories and submit aroung 10 links per day.

I spend more time posting in the forums and a directory of some observations. This means you can add a variation of the techniques of SEO for all the activity does not become too boring.

In fact, I tried to submit in the website automatically just to see what happens, I found the site very soon be punished, since many links too fast, the same title and description. I found you, if you use automatic submission, submit to the directory in 8 weeks.

I'm linkbuilder so I spend 6 or 7 hours on directory submissions everyday. I'm not so quicker but I complete 100 directories in 6or 7 hours.

Directory submission for my company now i want to work as a free lancer. Directory submission have no time when i am free then i submit directories. But select the best directory always.

You cannot submit to too many directories because a new site is not supposed to get a lot of backlinks in a short time. Unless your site is very popular, you should submit to a few directories in one day. You should not perform the directory submission every day. You can perform the directory submission at random days so that the submission process looks natural.

Yes I was immediate enough on article submissions though. Got the site rolling as well as some PR to get started with help of article submissions.

It detecting domain forums categories was a tough job as well as I didn't wanted irrelevant links. But I can say I was slow on it.

Directory submission can take a time while google can be indexed with particular time. These is really helpful to generating a more traffic.