How to get your site listed??

Is there a secret formula? Yes, is it really a secret? No. I use simple logic, I don't spend hours changing my tags to suit Google, Yahoo or any other SE, but I am on position one throughout the world, in fact one guy said my tags were lousy, and he's probably right. I am a cumpulsive poster, I do at least 20 manual Directory submissions per day and try to change my content as often as possible, we have a big change coming up this weekend.
I use the humble Google toolbar as a marketing aid, and it earns us money virtually every month. Search 'Google Alerts' via http://www.toolbar.google.com and place your keywords or subject matter into the Alert system. Next day you will receive an e-mail from big G telling you about media stories on your given subject. What I do is either e-mail the writer and say something like, sorry, but the facts are ..... I leave my phone number, that gives me time to do some research and get ready for that call. The BBC did a thing about Door to Door selling in Norfolk, I called them (thanks Google ) and they phoned me back, live on air, I got my URL mentioned not by reading something so long that people would forget but by saying 'If you want the facts about this search CTAB on any search engine'. That is my secret, I use my Company initials as my trade name, I even post with it. It gets searched so many times that all the SE's have picked us up. We now have over 100 different search term titles (thanks http://www.statcounter.com) It is not what is in your keywords, it is to start with, but it is expressions from your site content that the spiders find. submit your initials (unique Search term) on to all of your pages, sit back and wait