I have almost finished development on an online classified site dedicated to bartering. It will launch at the end of April and I want to know what general submission / initial promotion sites I should use to get my name out there. It is going to be localized to Los Angeles. So any specific site suggestions would help. I think there are 4 general areas of submission (please correct me if I'm wrong) 1. Sites that are dedicated to startups/projects: MetaFilter Projects, KillerStartups, StartupNation, 2. Search engines (the link below has most of them listed) 3. Article Directories (also in the link below) 4. Newswires like PRNewswire and PRweb...although I have never used these companies they seem like the larger companies on my google searches. Once the site launches I was going to create a press release and submit it to these sites. I am looking for your guys suggestions in this press release area... I have found this site that goes over the general pages for submission to search engines and article directories: http://www.addme.com/newsletters/issue217.htm Is this a complete good list to start with? Is there a better, automatic way of doing it? And what would be your suggestions for press releases? I should mention I am on a budget and only have nominal amounts of money to spend for submission/ initial promotion (under $1K). I can do and prefer to do the work myself