I've been toying with the software submission directories and noticed that after about 350 successful submissions, I haven't seen more than 2 or 3 links show up in my logs.
It's funny watching the 1st page results, for me I focus on smaller, local niches - not necessarily local to me, so the competition is pretty small, usually about 100k or so. The 1st page just get slammed with all the soft directories for a few days and whoever was on 1st page gets pushed back real far.
Now it's normalized and things are back to normal, but now I occupy 5 out of the 10 spots of Page 1, the top spots with a mixture of a couple ezinearticles and a few soft directories, and a scribd doc that Google just seems to love...
Now I jsut need my damned site that's still on page 6 to hurry up and catch up, it's about 2.5 weeks old, is this site going too slow?