Submitting your blog to online directories does not guarantee it will bring traffic to your blog since Google is giving very less priority to directory site. If your blog is very new, you can consider submit to online directories to increase exposure. Online directories are usually maintain manually by a reviewer before it is accepted in their online directories. They want to make sure the submitted URL website has a good quality content and not a spam website. So, make sure your blog has some good quality post and it is more than one month old before submit to directory submission websites.
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You will need to wait at least one day before they have reviewed your blog and submit to the directory. Be patient and once they have approved your blog submission, it will appear in the directory list based on the category you have selected.
Directory submission is a good link building techniques to create backlinks to your blog. Although it is not effective way but it helps to let more people know about your blog. Try to submit your blog URL to the each directory website one by one. Don’t try to submit to all directory website within a week. Spread it to different time frame such as submit to 10 directories submission website in 2 months period so that your blog will be exposure to the public over time.
