For twelve days I have been submitting a small Chrome extension to software directories and counting the ones that publish. The count reached 58 live pages, and I was pleased with it, and the number was answering the wrong question.
A listing is not a listing. What a directory actually gives you is a link, and links are not equal. So I wrote a script that loads every one of our listing pages in a fresh anonymous browser context, finds the outbound links, and reads the rel attribute exactly as it appears in the page.
Here is what twelve days of directory submissions bought.
The numbers
24 listing pages, across 21 distinct domains.
