1 Click Directory Submissions with “AutoFill Forms” a Firefox Add-on
When you hear the phrase “manual directory submissions” you might cringe a little and put off submitting your website or business. Thanks to this snazzy little FireFox Add-on so eloquently titled “Autofill Forms” you can submit your website to loads of directories insanely fast.
Directory and PageRank Basics
First off, let me explain a bit for those who may not be familiar with the reasoning behind directories let alone what they are. Web directory scripts, such as the most prominent PHP Link Directory ($25 per license, great script, I own a few myself), provide a comprehensive platform for indexing website address links or domain names. Most directories have a broad range of categories and sub-categories and others are “niche directories” which focus on one specific genre or industry.
Submitting your website to quality directories in appropriate categories is proven to increase your coveted Google PageRank. I personally do not feel that this is imperative or even something to boast about, however it is commonly known that the value of your website or domain name will increase with higher ranking.
Download & Install AutoFill Forms
Click here to download “AutoFill Forms” add-on for FireFox!
I love FireFox Add-ons that make my life easier! Go ahead and download AutoFill Forms now and browse around for some other add-ons you may enjoy. Once you install you will have to restart FireFox so be sure to bookmark this article!
Once you have AutoFill installed follow these simple steps to add it to your toolbar:
- Right-click on your toolbar.
- Choose ‘Customize…’ from the context menu.
- Drag and Drop the Autofill Forms button on your toolbar. (Looks like a pencil)
Configuring AutoFill Forms for Single Click PHPLD Submissions
This addon is very simple once you get the basic idea of what each element does. Once it automatically fills out your first form it will slap a smile on your face and may have you creating custom profiles for all types of mindless data entry you do on a daily basis.
Let’s create a customized profile for PHPLD submit pages.
- Open up AutoFill Forms settings and you will be presented with the default profile that is loaded with a bunch of junk entries.
- Click on the text “Default” and type in “PHPLD” and press the “Add” button. You should now have 2 unique profile names with the same data.
- We want to remove the default data, so Shift+Click the first cell in your new profile, scroll down and click on the last cell and then press your Delete key.
You should now have a blank “PHPLD” profile. Now navigate to any PHPLD submit page, such as BumpLink.com and press the “Display Form Details” button to show form element names on a page.
- Fill out the “Form field rule” area with info for our first form field
- Name: LINK_TYPE
- Value: normal
- Field Rule: (?:^LINK_TYPE$)
- Press the “Add” button
You can also use the “Rule Editor” to specify field rules and add multiple potential fields for your information to be dumped into, for PHPLD we will be stating the the field name equals “LINK_TYPE” etc.
- Fill out the “Form field rule” area with info for our second form field
- Name: TITLE
- Value: DotSauce Domain News
- Field Rule: (?:^TITLE$)
- Press the “Add” button
Continue to add rules for the following PHPLD submit form fields as seen in the screenshot:
LINK_TYPE, TITLE, URL, DESCRIPTION, OWNER_NAME, and OWNER_EMAIL.
Go on a Submitting Frenzy!
There are thousands of active and free PHP Link Directories some more powerful than others. Here are some great resources to help you start submitting:
- Listing of 100+ free PHPLD directories
- Official PHP Link Directory Forums
- DirectoryKit.com Directory Blog
Want to see your PHPLD directory listed here? If you have a quality PHPLD directory with free nomal links, post a comment below and I will do my best to include your link in this article!
You can also promote your RSS feed to RSS directories and get more subscribers. DotSauce has a list of 55 active RSS specific directories.
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August 12th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Seems a great resource to me, thanks for sharing
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August 12th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Very useful for lazy folk! But I still think some would prefer to pay $5 to get someone else to do the work for them, its just human nature to do as little work as possible unfortunately!
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August 13th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Great tool, I had no idea there was such a tool. DHScott you’re right on this one lol
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August 27th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Thanks for this, it is very nice to have for sites that don’t have the meta grabber :)
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August 28th, 2007 at 7:46 am
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September 8th, 2007 at 12:21 am
thank you so much this really works!!!!!
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September 11th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
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October 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
thanks, good info
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November 30th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Submitting your link to free directories is a must, except for those that require a reciprocal link for your site to be listed. Ultimately, it’s about you to decide whether to give a reciprocal link or not. Just keep in mind that search engines will not penalize you because of your incoming links, but your outgoing links can do much harm to you. If you link from your site to a known spammer or so-called bad neighborhood, your position in the search engine result pages could suffer. Most of the directories that require a link back exist only to gain link weight for themselves and are not worth your time.
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December 22nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Nice to know about this firefox plugin. Thanks.
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December 31st, 2007 at 10:48 am
Thanks for posting about this. I never knew a plugin like this existed - you’ve just made my directory submissions a whole lot easier. Thanks!
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March 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
man.. this tutorial awesome. I wasn’t able to understand how to use autofill in firefox but after following your step by step guy I’m crystal clear now. Thank you so much. I’ve bookmarked this page on my google bookmarks. I definitely gives this article a digg if you have that too.
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I love Firefox - that is an awesome plugin!
I’ve been using InFormEnter, but being able to set up custom templates for the directory scripts would be way easier.
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March 26th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Great Tutorial !
But how do i know the Name and field rule value like (?:^DESCRIPTION$) for other types of directory ?
Many thanks.
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:27 am
I wish I would have found this 300 submissions ago. I just finally decided to do a google search because I knew that someone smarter than I had to have come up with a way to modify that Google Toolbar to make it autofill the fields that these require.
Thank you very much for your post. It was very informative & quite useful. It will reduce my submission times for linking from 4 or so minutes per URL to around 30 seconds. You are a savior…thanks much!!!!
Respectfully,
Brian Arnold
http://www.columbusinventoryhomes.com
Your one stop for new homes in Columbus, Ohio.
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May 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
wow this is Great Tutorial
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May 20th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Great tool and tutorial. I have been using Brad Callen’s directory submiter in the past, and it is good. I will try out this autofill forms today.
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August 18th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Thank for the Great Tutorial
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November 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for the informative tutorial. The firefox plug-in Autofill forms works great - much better than most paid directory submitter software.
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November 8th, 2008 at 9:31 am
THanks for such informative article…Thanks
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January 13th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Hi,
I have several location for my business and I would like to list them all in all Yellow page directories, is there any way to create a form which fills out automaticaly all online forms for listing submission such as in google local, yahoo local, superpages and so on?
I dont mind paying to have a profrssional automatic formfiller done
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February 27th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Seems to be a great resource for directory submission which will save time doing a lot more work in building backlinks for the websites
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April 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Great tutorial, will save loads of time when I get it working, but I have a problem.
I’m using the latest version of the extension (0.9.5.2) but can’t see the “Display form details” button anywhere.
Has it been removed or renamed? How do I do this in this version.
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May 31st, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I’m having the same problem, display form details is missing, anyone know where I can a profile of this to import?
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June 4th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Thank you my friend. This is a very nice plugin.
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June 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hello Dude,
Get article, I never knew that there was such a plugin. I have istalled the plugin know and I will try using it. You saved my money dude. I used pay about $50 for such software.
Thanks
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June 28th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Nice Autofill Forms firefox plugin. Thanks You :)
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