The directory tells you where to submit. This tells you in what order. Twenty-five guides across seven phases, arranged as one sequence you can follow top to bottom. It starts with the work that makes a submission worth accepting, then the channels that list you the same day, then the launches that need a date in the calendar.
Every step is free unless it is marked otherwise, and the time next to each guide is the time it actually takes, not the time it takes to read about it.
Before you submit anywhere. Traffic to a broken page is wasted traffic.
Week one. Low effort, immediate listings, permanent backlinks.
The days that need a date in the calendar. Pick one, prepare properly, and treat the permanent link as the real prize.
The slowest channel on the route and the only one that compounds socially. Nothing here pays off this week.
Only some of this phase applies to you. Skip whichever platform your product cannot ship on.
What turns a launch spike into a slope. Slower than everything above it and worth more a year later.
Do not open this phase until the free channels are genuinely exhausted. Paid amplifies what works and hides nothing.