i know some directories are looked down upon. since google hasnt indexed my site yet, i dont want to be thrown into the lake of junk. what are you must submissions? google, yahoo, msn, how about dmoz?
A listing in Dmoz is very valuable nowadays. Just go there and properly submit your site and then forget about it. It takes ages to be approved there. You can also submit one article to ezinearticles.com, it's know to help indexing your site in matters of days.
you don't submit to google/yahoo/msn you get backlinks you get crawled Submit to any free webdirectory in the long run you will see the effects