Is your site faster than 4 seconds? Are the contents you entered compatible with h1 tags? Is your site linked to other search engines besides Google?

looks like a great seo forum I'm following

In general, no one can give you relevant answer to such a general question. Obviously, each directory is different in terms of ranks, quality, relevance to your niche/web...

It is temporarily disabled for everyone. Sitemaps and normal crawls will index all of your content according to existing methods.

Yes, directory submission is still beneficial. The only difference is that it takes a lot more time for approval. I am also still doing directory submissions for my websi...

In the past, TLDs used to affect ranking quiet a bit. Nowadays, TLD bias should be minimal to none, but it still significant CTR driver. When searching locally, people ar...

Other ways of indexing? What do you mean?

I would try other ways of indexing Google is not trust-able to do anything right

SEO can be quite tricky if you don't know where to begin. Here's a link to SEO basics which I hope can help. Best of luck on your SEO efforts.

Thank you