Before you even think to submit your site to search engines or open directories check him! Check his spelling, check the links in the site, one small mistake can effecting on your site's rank.  after you check all your site from seo mistakes you can to get the submission part.

There a lot of software and sites that offer you "easy life" don't buy it! For max result you need to do it yourself, don't think that all this garbage will make your site rank better, ask yourself do you to get spam? The answer is no. search engine also don't like spam, try to avoid that. The search engine can drop your site to last place because of spam, like al the shows "don't try it in home". Take your time don't hurry, search engines will ever be in our internet. Search engines want you the do manually submission.

Why is search engine and directories?
Over 95% of the traffic on your site is from search engines and directories, do want to lose all these traffic? The major search engines can give you thousand of surfers that want to see your site, think more customers think hungriest surfers for info.

How to submit sites?
Lets take for exmpale the sites about Yahoo Domains and V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
name of the sites: the name of the links.

Description: tell in two sentences about your site, let's take V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
For example: The v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest, a new SEO contest on google search engine"

Keywords: take from you site 10-20 words that you see and you want people to search them. Let's take example from Yahoo Domains: "yahoo, buy domains, domains articles, search domains, yahoo domains, domains yahoo, domains news"

Now I will help you with the work, here is a list of search engine and directories, just click on the link and your site to them.

*  AltaVista
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new

* Google
Submission URL: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
* You are listed automatically

* Fast
Submission URL: http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php

* Abi Find R PR0 http://www.abifind.com/

* Akipus PR0 http://webresources.akipus.com/

* All Business Directory PR0 http://www.allbusinessdirectory.biz/

* America Mall PR0 http://www.1americamall.com/free-business-listing.html

* A1 Directory PR0 http://www.a1directory.be/

* Bigvertiser PR0 http://www.bigvertiser.com/

* Boogle PR0 http://www.boogle.co.uk/dir/

* Business Web Directory R PR3 http://www.businesswebdirectory.biz/

* Click 2 Directory PR0 http://click2directory.com/
 
* Directory Delta PR0 http://www.directorydelta.com/

* Directory Hub PR0 http://www.directoryhub.be/

* Directory On PR4 http://www.directoryon.info/

* Directory Vault PR0 http://www.directoryvault.com/

* Directoryy PR0 http://www.directoryy.com/

* Directory PR0 143 http://www.directory143.com/

* Directoy PR0 http://www.directoy.be/

* Explode Search PR0 http://www.explodesearch.com/

* Extra Dir PR0 http://www.extradir.com/

* Gten PR0 http://www.gten.net/

* Index Rated PR0 http://indexrated.com/

* Jungle Finder PR3 http://www.junglefinder.com/

* Lambs Links PR0 http://www.lambslinks.com/

* Leading Solutions PR0 http://directory.leadingsolutions.com/

* Link Hub PR0 http://linkhub.info/

* My Dig Net PR0 http://directory.mydignet.com/

* Pop-Net PR0 http://www.pop-net.org/

* SEO Links PR0 http://www.seo-links.org/
 
* Simple-Directory PR0 http://www.simple-directory.co.uk/
 
* Site Find PR0 http://www.sitefind.org/
 
* Submit Website PR0 http://www.submitwebsite.be/
 
* TBWD PR0 http://www.tbwd.org/

* Tequila PR0 http://www.tequila-stuff.com/cgi-bin/dir/

* The Free Directory PR0 http://www.the-free-directory.co.uk/
 
* Trout PR0 http://directory.trout.pl/

* Wazo PR0 http://wazo.us/

* Webby 101 PR0 http://www.webby101.com/

* Wujekdrut PR0 http://www.wujekdrut.com/

* Your Directory Online PR0 http://www.yourdirectoryonline.com/

* 123 Ez Search PR0 http://www.123ezsearch.com/

* Skaloosh PR3 http://www.skaloosh.com/

* The Orange Pages PR4 http://www.theorangepages.com/

* Web World Index PR6 http://www.webworldindex.com/

* Blog Listing PR0 http://www.bloglisting.net/

* Brampton Listings PR4 http://www.bramptonlistings.info/

* Fin Directory PR0 http://findirectory.org/

* Manage Your Dollars PR0 http://www.manageyourdollars.com/directory/

* Offshore Directory PR0 http://www.offshore-directory.org/

* IPB Directory PR3 http://www.ipbdirectory.com/

* phpBB Directory PR0 http://www.phpbbdirectory.com/

* vBulletin Directory PR0 http://www.vbulletindirectory.com/

* Fat Info PR0 http://www.fatinfo.com/

* Get Beauty Tips PR3 http://directory.getbeautytips.com/

* SC2 PR0 http://www.sc2.info/

* Wisdomtool PR2 http://www.wisdomtool.com/directory/

* Free Funny Humor PR3 http://www.freefunnyhumor.com/

* A Law PR0 http://www.a-law.org/

* Summer Daycamps PR5 http://www.summer-daycamps.com/

* Wedding Planning Ideas PR0 http://www.weddingplanningideas.co.uk/

* Dev Magic PR0 http://www.devmagic.com/

* Niche Travel Destinations PR0 http://www.nichetraveldestinations.com/

* The Travel Bag PR0 http://www.thetravelbag.net/

* The Travel Links PR0 http://www.thetravellinks.net/

* The Travel Root PR0 http://www.thetravelroot.com/

* Travel Bizoo PR0 http://www.travelbizoo.com/

* Travel Buss PR0 http://www.travelbuss.com/

* The Travel Choice PR0 http://www.thetravelchoice.net/

* Travel Hubs PR0 http://www.travelhubs.net/

* Travel Steam PR0 http://www.travelsteam.com/

* Travel Tuu PR0 http://www.traveltuu.com/

* Travel Zorg PR0 http://www.travelzorg.com/

* Best Sites UK PR0 http://www.best-sites.co.uk/

* Map Of London PR3 http://www.map-of-london.co.uk/directory/

* Michigan Business PR0 http://www.mbiz.us/

* NYC Talent PR0 http://www.nyctalent.com/dir/

* Great Directory Site PR0 http://www.greatdirectorysite.com/
 
* URL Direct PR1 http://www.urldirect.com.au/

* Voisd PR4 http://www.voisd.com/

* Webmaster Directory Biz PR3 http://www.webmasterdirectory.biz/

It is only small list, for more sites just googling "free search engine" or "free directories"