Black Hat World’s SEO Forum has a post (free registration required) listing many, many article directories, press release directories, and social bookmarking sites with high page rank, in page rank order. A couple of notes. One is that I just discovered Black Hat World, and their terms of service are almost comically middlebrow. They don’t appear to be very black hat. The other note is for beginners. These are sites Google thinks of as popular and authoritative, and virtually all of them allow you to submit either an article you’ve written or a press release. Social bookmarking sites just let you keep a site bookmarked as you would on the browser, but it’s public so everyone can see it. The theory, which works pretty well, is that using these free resources helps focus searches to land closer to your site.

The music business is on life support right now. Bands are having to do their own publicity, release CDs themselves, book their own tours. I wonder if any band has used SEO techniques to spread the word? I bet not. Most people don’t search for “new hip hop” or “bands like Linkin Park”. Most people are followers, not leaders, so they only search for bands they know about, or someone else told them about.

I suppose one place SEO works is for local bands or DJs that do weddings and the like. Every decent-sized city has a few cover bands that dominate. Usually these bands are run like sensible businesses, not like sloppy creative disorganized flaky musicians, and could probably afford SEO services.

Ever wonder how to get Google to index your site? You can do it fast and free using free classifieds and bookmarking sites. I wrote a popular article on forcing Google to index your site for EzineArticles.com.

Coty Schwabe looks to be on the fast track to gurudom, despite his professed outsider status (Guru Crusher, anyone?). He claims in a recent opt-in video for what appears to be an upcoming product called Google Dogs of War that he can get an existing (say, month-old) blog to get indexed on Google within a few minutes. This is months-old domain name and I just set up the blog tonight. I’m going to put it to the test.

Schwabe says in the video he earns a full-time, if not lavish income as an internet marketer. He’s obviously young, and if you search for his name you’ll find that he seems to be executing a very competent review blog strategy. The sites he creates are clean, the videos simple and clear, and he likes to work on a tight budget, befitting his tyro status. Definitely a person to watch.