Directory submissions
Directory submissions should be the first step a webmaster takes when trying to optimize website for search engines.
It will drive more traffic to your website and more important, it will help your pagerank, but the only problem is that it takes long time until your website get reviewed and accepted then listed in the directory.
Choose web directories with high page rank, and submit your website under the suitable category.
First of all submit your website to DMOZ directory and be prepared for a very long waiting time that can be several months and sometimes more than one year until you get listed in it.
Just wait and don’t try to resubmit your website again, choose the right category for your website and don’t submit many times under several categories.
If DMOZ listed your website in its directory then be prepared for a huge amount of traffic because many other directories and search engines and even Google itself trusts it very much and gives more respect for websites listed in it.
The second step if you have enough money is to submit to Yahoo directory, it costs more than 300 $ and there is no guarantee that your website will be accepted and listed.
Then start searching for web directories that offer free listing, and try to change the title or the anchor text of your website.
One great website offers these services for you for free is http://www.onewaytextlink.com/
Create account for free, and then you will have a list of all free and paid directories.
The website also helps you keep track of all web directories that you submitted to and the date of submission and the anchor text used for submission.