The guides at about.com are looking for what they call deep links.
This may not necessarily be your homepage, but rather an article that
you have written from an "expert" point of view.
Your best plan of attack is to:
Submit an article that you have written on one of your domain pages.
Step3
Offer a link back. Put a link to their site even before contacting them and said, "I find your site such a great resource that I've listed you in our links page.
Step4
As you can see becoming completely search engine optimized can be a great deal of work. Your success level might depend on the number of hours you are willing to put into writing search engine optimized words, titles and metatags and the amount of care that you are willing to put into the process of search engine submission. Why are you doing all this again? It is because getting listed in these directories can boost your rankings in Google and other search engine directories!