lol, im not sure how far thru my order hardworking is so far, but from the 'considerable number' of emails that submitting 7 urls to 3000 directories generates, I think that I can claim a level of authority on this piece of advice I am about to give out:
For the love of your sanity, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT use a 'production' email for the directory submissions! hardworking really does send your URL out to 3000 directories, and those directories really do like to send you messages about it. hahahaha
Oh.. and if you have gone to the effort to setup external email accounts, make sure you disable any automated forwardings you setup... otherwise your Outlook will no longer like you, or the several thousand emails that it has to load. :'-(
I'll give a more detailed report of things once he has finished submitting, and I have finished verifying, but so far I'm pretty impressed with things
On a side note...
@hardworking - I would be very much interested in a service where you create a gmail account for the url, use that for the submissions, and have someone go thru and click all the freaking verify messages, and then just send me the gmail logins once everything is done. hahaha.
... so... many... fking... emails >.<