I submitted my product to a lot of directories over the past few weeks. Then I measured what those listings

actually gave me, and the answer was worse than the page count suggested: twenty four listings

across twenty one domains, and five links a search engine would follow.

I assumed the other sixteen were nofollow out of habit, or caution, or because that is what

platforms do now. Then one of them sent me an email that explained the whole thing in one sentence,