Meaning, is there a special Webmaster Tools feature that I could use or should I just sit and wait for the Googlebot to visit me?
They got plenty could be in the millions of client waiting in queue. I guess wait could be the best bet.
add your blog in your signature. Google will visit for sure. That will help. Try bookmarking sites like digg, propeller, etc.
High quality backlinks will make the google bot visit your blog right away. You can submit your site to a few good social bookmarking sites (like Digg for example), that will do the job.
The easiest way is to use social bookmarking sites, or create a hubpage/squidoo lens where you put a link to your blog.
Build backlinks and googlebot will visit your blog on a regular basis, you can build high quality backlinks through press release distribution, social bookmarking sites, and article submissions.
If it is blog, you can try submitting your RSS to different RSS directories. That will help you get more backlinks. Just my 2 Cents!
you can go with digg, stumbleupon, delicious and many more famous social book marking first. After doing this stuff, you need to some classifieds submissions and forum posting, Will help u alot.
updating the content for your blog and post new articles on it, it will surely works, and google bot have to come for visiting your websites, mean while build back links for the same results.
If you want google bot to visit your blog fast, then try to get some high quality plus relevant links.
easiest way is to submit the front page to digg.com and submit it via their google submit url page. Will be indexed in 1 week or less.
ping your blog every time you update it. Submit to Social bookmarking site and having an RSS feeds is also a big help for the bots to find your blog.
submit ur site to digg..put a link to ur blog in forums/sites which are indexed by google..and it will sure visit ur blog
Agreed. Get a good ping list and you will get more then google visiting your blog right after each post.