About the submissions to directories are the same as buying
PR, I disagree. That might be the intentions of the buyer, but not the directory.
Most directories charge a *review* fee. In other words that money you spend for inclusion is for the editors time and such. Not to buy some of their pagerank. Directories that charge a review fee have been going on for years and years. I can show you a bunch of directories that have been doing it for over 4 years.
Brett Tabke once said something like if your selling advertising space or charging for inclusion into a directory, just market it as selling advertising, selling a service etc...not pagerank and you have nothing to worry about.
I think everyone here is forgetting about conversions here. Is a $20-50 one time fee worth a possible sale? I mean if a submission to a directory doesnt directly or indirectly help you earn 1 sale over several years...then I'd question that directory's marketing capabilites.
Keywords in listings? Have any of you contacted Jupiter Media about a $5000/month advertisement? Cause if you ask them to list your advertising link as your company name they'll tell you NO. They want it descriptive to the users of their sites. They dont want a link that says for instance Bluefind. What normal users know what Bluefind is? They want it to say Web Directory.
Therefore, many directories offer extra descriptive words in the title text for more $$. But what does it do for the listing? Increases clickthroughs. Why? Because now people know what the company is, or are compelled to click it more.
Once again..it's been going on since the dawn of the internet.
lo !!! 
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