Running on a treadmill? What am I doing wrong?

[EDSmontreal]

I've always loved the concept of freesites, and have seen some simply AMAZING conversion ratios on traffic coming from my submitted freesites.

But, with shooting, and maintaining my program, I've always had a hard time finding time between it all to build/submit freesites

3 months ago or so, my girlfriend finally finished university, and decided to work with me. I thought GREAT! Finally someone to help me out to take care of the day-to-day!

She's been building freesites and submitting them 5 days a week...shes up to...like 50 or 60 of them now. However, I've not really seen an increase in traffic.

It feels like there is something BIG I'm missing, thats right under my nose and when someone tells me I'll slap my forehead and say "OH! DUH!"

We've been submitting to greenie and the other big guys, but with only 1 index page, not creating multiple index pages to get on more link lists - I assume this is one big way to garner more traffic from the submissions, but I mean...even without that - should I not being seeing growth, even with submitting to greenie, penisbot, etc etc. daily?

On the whole traffic across the rest of our network is doing great, and this is the one thing that has stayed stagnant while we see huge growth everywhere else.

so...I beg you...what am I doing wrong?

thank you in advance for any advice you guys are kind enough to bestow