Do you think submit to directory is effect?

[The Old Sarge]

Rumour has it that Google has devalued links from directories. Seeing they are 99.9% self-made, that seems sensible!

I agree but think DMOZ is the one exception. Google still seems to lend a great deal of weight to certain aspects of the ODP/DMOZ. IMO that's because ODP/DMOZ is human-edited and very little spam gets through. Other directories seem to let just anyone and everyone list their sites without much regard for content or value to Internet users.