have good and new content and Google will find you but just incase, make sure you have an rss feed that you ping....
For fast indexing just submit an article with the url to Digg and put yhe link in your sig at this forum. Fast indexing without major problems
I think we should not make any special efforts let the Google robot crawl the site of his own. If you want to make any special effort then you may submit site into Digg, propeller, stumbleupon or you may use mixx also because they are best social bookmarking networks..
Here's proof that the "basic" method words I've launched TeenProBlogger about 10 hours ago, and it's already indexed 23 pages =D Google is cool