pawoodster

why not go to afraid.org and choose a free domain from there. They offer all your redirection options and are set up immediately by yourself.

Why not try these two directories:- http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://www.url.biz/ Both are a damn site quicker than google and will both get you there in the end. Like somebody else has said. Don't bother submitting to google. Just make sure you get a link from a forum or a site with a pagerank of 4 or more. it's a doddle.

gmail is great. the downtime is far less than hotmail and is a great service to have all your email forwarded to. you can even download pop goes the gmail to read everything via outlook. http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/169789-alpha-pop-goes-the-gmail/

Doorway pages are nothing short of spam and will get you banned by google in the long term. Use web position gold to check things like your keyword density.

You can get your site indexed by Google within 72 hours if you get it linked via a site with a pagerank of 4 or more. I never submit to google. Just find a forum with a decent pagerank and post your link as a signature - obviously not spamming, of course.

You need good keyword density, plenty of backlinks and good content. Why do you think blogs are so popular in google searches?Meta tags are easy enough to put into a site and are probably worth the 10 mins spent putting them there. The robots.txt tag is fairly handy as it tells the spider how often and where to visit.