Originally Posted by StarkReality

No problem. WP has a built in feature that let's you ping different services (pingomatic is often preconfigured, but you can add more) when you update the blog. That's nice, but if you want to speed up the indexing and ranking, you want google to find links TO your site/blog. Let's forget about the blog itself for this technique, it's not about this built in pinger.

You add links to it on your own sites, on social bookmarking sites, you submit to directories, etc. Normally, it would take google quite a time to find those links TO your site, especially if they are on low/zero PR pages that don't get crawled often.

So, you make a list of pages (exact page, not just the domain) linking to you, this includes the social bookmarking site profiles, the pages your link appears on in the directories you submitted to, any page linking TO your blog.

Now you take that list and a desktop based pinging tool (All Day Sucker, BlogPinger Pro, Starpinger, if you don't want to buy one, manual entry in pingomatic is an option as well) and ping each and every URL of that list. It takes barely a minute, often just seconds and googlebot will check the page. It doesn't have to be a blog, you don't even have to ping google blogsearch directly, just one pingomatic ping and googlebot pays the respective a visit. Most of the time, google will spider this page again since the ping indicated there may be something new to grab...and finds the link to your blog.

Cons: Could get your sandboxed very fast

Pros: You'll get indexed faster, especially useful for huge sites to get them completely indexed. You'll get ranked faster. The links can be on orphan pages (=pages not linked from anywhere)