here are some facts of my own (might not be so for everyone)
I hired a guy 3 weeks ago to build and submit he uses Russian submitter, the most I get a day is 18K traffic.
I also hiried a guy that does it by hand, in the last week alone I got 250K hits, Today a gallery he submitted is on
www.Worldsex.com (Amazing Teen babe)
so there ya have it