it's looking good
Try to Dmoz, it is always good
if you are looking urgent approval free directory then it will very hard to get good page rank site. if you are going to zero page rank then you...
it's depend on your website PR. If your website PR is Zero then it will be useful to you if your site page rank is more then 1 or 2 then think...
I don't think that directory submission is dead. it's depend on you how you going submission
Resubmit once again and after getting code, upload this code in your site in between head and body
According to me, i can say you once again re submit your blog in google webmaster and also put your code in your blog.
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