Yeah it seems some missed the press release. Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and i believe the smaller players agreed upon a single website directive.

Make your xml sitemap and tell the search engines where it is via your robots text file like so:

Sitemap: http://www.yourdomainurl.com/sitemap.xml

For those that like full control you can still use google's webmaster tools as it will alert you to any problems etc.

Read through Matt Cutts' blog (Google spam team). He mentions unrelated links in the footer a few times.

Yes, subdomains are considered as a separate domains. Though if I were redirecting, I'd rather LINK to the forumdisplay.php OR buy vbSEO and create static links for forums.

http://www.greywyvern.com/orca#search - easy search

submission sites I use WebCeo ( www.webceo.com ), you can also try it out .
http://www.submiteaze.com/use digXmas submitter ( www.digixmas.com ) it's free.The easiest way to get all sites indexed is just throw them all up on one page named "good sites" or something similar.

Seperate them into categorized headings, link that page to the index of one of the sites and go to a text link brokerage site and buyy twp pr 5 links for one month.

They will all be indexed within two weeks or probably a lot less.

Cheers, Chris

Search engine submission should not be necessary, infact I would suggest against it. When you submit to Google, there's a possibility you will hit the Sandbox.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_Effect
The effect of this is debatable, but from experience, the best way to overcome this is as follows:

Instead, try to link from an authority site, ideally PR4 or above. If you don't currently have any authority sites, purchasing a nicely related text link (from a site with few links, not a site selling loads of them), will get you more for your money than any kind of SE submission.

Naturally, Google and other SE's spider authority sites more frequently than those that are less important. This is partly because they have a larger number of followable links pointing at them, and thus, if you would like to be spidered and indexed quickly, you should link to your site from one.The first step is research, know your market. This will enable you to identify the big players within your niche.

Next you can analyse their link strategy. Seeing who is linking to them should give you a few ideas. An easy way of doing this is using SE operators in your query:

Google - link:http://www.example.com
Yahoo! - linkdomain:example.com -site:example.com

The real power is when you start to think outside the box, and develop techniques from your understanding of the way it works.

411 fir free -

Google Voice Local Search (Beta)

While browsing articles on SES NYC going on..

I came across a new idea in development by Google..

Google Voice Local Search (Beta)

http://labs.google.com/goog411/

Marketed as a "free call"..

What do you think?

go to textlinkads.com and you can buy links on people's sites (sorta auction thing) and payperpost.com let's you post an "opportunity" to get bloggers to blog about your product and link to it - you can specify what page rank you want.

You can see one I've done for payperpost on my blog ixld.blogspot.com it's not a bad service.

I also did a video about it if you're interested.. go ahead and watch it here: http://ixld.com/training/payperpost/payperpost.html

soloseo.com will track Track PR & Rankings for certain keywords

http://www.google.com/analytics/

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ - track rankings for keywords

http://www.submitedge.com/seo_tools.html - seo tools 215 supposedly

http://coinmill.com/EUR_USD.html#EUR=250 - convert euros to dollars

http://www.spanishdict.com/AS.cfm?e=ellos - spanish dictionary

http://www.domainstate.com/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=83064 - buying domains with alexa