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Instead of submitting your site to search engines, I do recommend to submit your sitemap to SE's like Google. This method is much more effective in order to get your site and inner pages get index faster.

Automated or free directories (Regular) submission normally does not guarantee listing or approval or ranking. I think reciprocal or paid directories does not have that problems.

getting your site listing or ranking in search engines require the following:
-optimize your site for your targeted keywords
-submit your site for search engines
-get mre weighted backlinks from high PR sites

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thanks

Submitting your site to SEs is not that necessary. Robots will crawl your site eventually.

There is nothing bad in submitting SEs but its not so essential as well.