Noob here. I understand the importance of getting links indexed. I read about "pinging" links and I read about "boosting" links. Could someone compare and contrast those two activities for me? Thanks!
You can ping your blogs using services like: http://pingomatic.com/ or http://pingoat.net/ Another way to index your pages is to just bookmark them on popular social bookmarking sites. Digg, Propeller, Mixx, Delicious, etc. will do the job. I don't know what "boosting links" means. I don't think such a phrase even exists in the SEO language
I could assume that "boosting links" means increase the number of links pointing to your site = build links.