digiXMAS – A Sophisticated PHPLD Directory Submitter
digiXMAS Directory Submitter is a semi automated directory submission tool for PHP Link Directory powered directories. Upon registering on the digiXMAS web site (aff.), you will be able to download and install this tool on your Windows desktop (Unfortunately there is no Linux or Mac OS X version).
You can give a try to a full-featured free version, the only serious limitation is that you can submit your site to a limited number of low quality web directories (150 directories with PageRank 0). If you order credit for a web site, for $15 you will be able to submit your site to all the 2550 PHP LD powered link directories included in digiXMAS’ directory list.
The biggest advantage of this directory submitter tool is that since it handles only one directory script, a wide range of features are available to ease the submission process: the submission is quick, the appropriate category can be choosen autmatically, and a detailed report of the success of your link building campaign can be easily generated.
The biggest disadvantage also comes from the fact that this tool is specialized to handle only one type of directory script: digiXMAS’ directory list is quite “homogenous”: since the PHP Link Directory script is extremely popular, it is installed to a lot of cheap, parked domains with little to no customization, in many cases using not only the same skins but just a few type of topic hiearchies, accepting a lot of spammy submissions.
The user interface
The user interface consists of three panes:
- one vertical pane shows the basic data of the web site you are actually submitting (you can enter more sites and change the actual site here).
- the upper horizontal pane shows the directory list: it not only gives a quick overview of the directories, but also displays the status of your submissions:
- pending means you haven’t submitted your site,
- success means that you have sucessfully sent your submission
- listed means that your submission was accepted
- and there are three more obvious statuses: in progress, failed and bypassed.
- the lower horizontal pane is a kind of log of the submission process displaying different messages about the submission process.
The directory submitter has two “modes”: the above screenshot shows the user interface of the semi-automated submission mode. I am not covering the other, manual submission mode here, because I don’t find it that useful. Similarly to the Omnibius — a directory submitter I blogged about earlier — this mode basically loads the entire web page, where you have to navigate to the submission form, enter the missing data which could not be automagically entered such as Captchas and finally administer the status of your submissions by hand.
The key user interface element of the other, much more useful semi-automated submission mode is the pop-up dialog box where you actually choose the appropriate category, solve Captchas and finally send your submissions:
This modal dialog pops up whenewer the tool managed to download the necessary data from the link directory in question. If you press OK, the submitter sends the necessary data, changes the status of the submission attrubuted to the given directory and pops up the next dialog boxes showing the data extracted from the subsequent directories.
One of the best features of this directory submitter is that — based on your initial input — it simply learns which categories would be the most appropriate for your site. Below the OK button you can see two arrows which let you navigate between the category suggestions the system picked for consideration, based on your previous choices. Fortunately these arrows have to be rarely used since in the majority of the cases the system can guess the best category. The another time consuming and annoying step of directory submissions — the CAPTCHA solving can be also automated using an external service of Decapther integrated to this tool.
With the semi-automated mode the submission for hundreds of directories can be done quickly without virtually knowing how those web directories look like: you will always see the same uniform interface: no fancy skins, templates, etc. you should get used to.
The data you send to the directories can be edited in a separate dialog which gives you access to more Title/Description variants which will be rotated randomly thus ensuring that your link submissions generate link networks closer to the “natural” ones.
The submission report
A nice submission check feature makes this directory submitter complete: if you issue the submission check command, the tool will crawl all directories and check whether your submission has been accepted or not. Based on the feedback collected from the listed directories, the system generates a detailed status report of your link building campaign. A sample report published in HTML format can be seen here: http://www.digixmas.com/sample_report_1.html
The directory list
As I already mentioned the directory list consists of English directories covering general topics powered by PHP Link Directory script. digiXMAS does not feature neither non-English directories nor niche or other speciality directories. At the time of writing the list had 2550 link directories with the following Page Rank values:
- PageRank 6: 5
- PageRank 5: 28
- PageRank 4: 59
- PageRank 3: 192
- PageRank 2: 279
- PageRank 1: 298
- PageRank 0: 1689
As you can see there are only a few directories with good PR values: unfortunately many of them have not earned this reputation as a web directory since among the high PageRank directories there are lots of domain names which were used for other purposes previously, and their high PR values are indeed inherited.
As for the many PR zero directories, in case of the majority of the included directories this low PR value reflects their bad reputation, but on the other hand there are always many relatively new directories listed, which couldn’t geta a PR value, and are to gain better PageRank values later.
The directory list of digiXMAS was always up to date during the past months I used this tool: the vast majority of the included directories works, the directories have appropriate categories, and many of them actually accept your submissions.
Conclusion
All in all, digiXMAS is the most advanced web directory submitter I have ever seen. It’s a pity that it is a Windows-only and PHP Link Directory-only tool, but irrespectively of these limitations, this directory submission tool is worth giving a try. Athough it is not a free tool you will not regret to spend some bucks on it. This tool is not a secret weapon but if you use it appropriately, it can contribute to the success of your link building campaigns.
Some other complementary services and tools can be also accessed on digiXMAS home page (aff.): you can also get an article submitter here or different submission services can be ordered if you want to outsource the directory submission.
More details on best practices — how to effectively use this tool has been published in a separate post: see my review on digixmas
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