Effortless Backlinks vs Submitora
Submitora is the closest thing to us in posture rather than price. They submit by hand, they report status per listing, and they are explicit that they guarantee the submission work rather than the outcome: not directory acceptance, not indexing, not rankings, not authority metrics.
That is an unusually honest thing to put on a sales page, and it is the same position we take. So this comparison is mostly about price and reporting, not about who is cutting corners.
Our take
At the tier that matches, 100 manual submissions, we are €179 and they are $249. We are cheaper and we place the same number of listings. Their reporting is better than ours in one specific way: every listing carries a status of planned, submitted, pending, live or rejected, and the Growth plan rechecks those statuses after 30 days. A rejected listing is useful information, and we hand you a report without that follow-up. If knowing exactly which submissions converted matters more to you than €60, they earn it.
Full disclosure: we run this site, so read everything here knowing where we stand. We keep the facts accurate and tell you below when Submitora is the better pick.
At a glance
| Feature | Effortless Backlinks | Submitora |
|---|---|---|
| Price for 100 listings | €179 | $249 |
| Entry plan | €79, 25 directories | $99, 35 directories |
| Submission method | 100% manual | 100% manual |
| Turnaround | Spaced over 30 days for natural link growth | 7-10 business days (Starter), 14-21 (Growth) |
| Per-listing status | Report on completion | Planned, submitted, pending, live or rejected |
| Follow-up recheck | No | Yes, at 30 days on Growth |
| What is guaranteed | The submission work | The submission work, explicitly not acceptance or rankings |
| Refund window | See refund policy | 24 hours, none once work begins |
| Who it is for | Any product, plus local businesses | SaaS, AI tools, startups |
Pricing comparison
| Plan | Effortless Backlinks | Submitora |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | €79, 25 directories | $99, 35 directories |
| Mid | €119, 50 directories | No 50-listing tier |
| Top | €179, 100 directories | $249, 100 directories |
The like-for-like comparison is 100 listings: €179 against $249. At the entry level they give you 35 for $99 against our 25 for €79, which works out close enough that the difference is noise. The part worth reading twice is the refund policy. Theirs is a full refund within 24 hours of payment and nothing once manual work starts, which is defensible for hand-done work but narrow. Check ours before you buy either.
Prices last verified April 2026.
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See how Effortless Backlinks handles this for youWhere Submitora wins
Status on every listing, not just a report
Planned, submitted, pending, live, rejected. Knowing that eleven submissions were rejected is more useful than a count of what was sent, and it tells you where to try something different. Our report does not break out rejections that way.
A 30-day recheck
On the Growth plan they go back and re-verify statuses a month later, which is when most pending listings have resolved either way. Directory approval is slow, so checking once at delivery understates what you actually got. That is a genuinely good idea.
Listing copy variants
They write multiple versions of your description rather than one, which reduces the duplicate-description problem that gets listings flagged as low quality. We vary descriptions too, but they make it an explicit deliverable.
They say what they do not guarantee
Directly on the sales page: not acceptance, not indexing, not rankings, not authority metrics. Most of this category promises DR numbers it cannot control. Submitora does not, and that deserves to be said out loud on a competitor's website.
Where Effortless Backlinks wins
€70 less for the same 100 listings
€179 against $249 for the same count, both submitted by hand. That is the clearest line in the comparison and it does not depend on how you weigh the softer features.
A vetted pool we publish a number for
200+ directories we have checked, with the plan capped at the best 100 for your product. Submitora does not state the size of the pool they select from, so you cannot tell how much matching is possible behind the phrase custom directory matching.
Not only SaaS
They target SaaS, AI tools and startups. A large share of our clients are local and service-area businesses, which need business directories and consistent company details rather than product directories. If that is you, their specialism is not an advantage.
Pacing with a reason
Their Growth plan runs 14 to 21 business days, which is close to our 30 in practice. The difference is that we pace deliberately, so link growth looks like growth rather than a delivery batch, and we will explain the reasoning rather than treating speed as the only virtue.
The honest answer
Submitora is a serious operator and the page they sell from is more honest than most in this category. If we were not competing with them we would point people at them without hesitation.
The two real differences are price and reporting depth, and they point in opposite directions. We are €70 cheaper for the same 100 hand-done listings. They tell you more about what happened to each one, including what got rejected, and they check again at 30 days.
If the reporting matters more than the money, buy theirs. If you want the same work for less and can live with a single report at the end, buy ours. There is no version of this comparison where either service is the wrong answer.
Which should you choose?
SChoose Submitora if:
You want per-listing status including rejections, you value a 30-day recheck after delivery, or you want listing copy variants written as an explicit deliverable.
EChoose Effortless Backlinks if:
You want the same 100 hand-submitted listings for €70 less, you are not a SaaS or AI tool, or you would rather have submissions paced across a month than delivered in a batch.
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