A very important, yet, often overlooked aspect of SEO and link building (for a blog) is your ping list. This is one of the simplest ways to get your content indexed by search engines within a matter of minutes. It will also help you to get ping backs from other blogs (and scraper sites) which will in turn build your backlinks.

If you’re using Wordpress as your blogging platform simply go to your admin section. Click Options, then click Writing.

Then paste the following text in the ping list field:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

This is just a basic example of a ping list, some people have hundreds of different sites in their list. However I limit most of my blogs to these primary services as I have found them the most useful.