Why You Shouldn’t Show Confirmation on Directory Submissions

It is fine to show a confirmation page on a directory submission as long as the page doesn’t have a unique URL and/or does not show the actual link that was submitted.

 For instance, let’s say I wanted to get some link popularity for my Squidoo page on snowboarding. Let’s say I was too cheap to pay for the link, and that I know 99% of directories out there are not going to link to a Squidoo page. How would I get the link from that directory anyway?

By submitting to the directory, copying the unique URL of the confirmation page, and seeding the link on some other website. A blog, for instance…

Ladies and gentlemen, THAT is why you don’t want to show a link on the confirmation page, especially if that entry into the database produces its own link for the confirmation.