blog and ping is when you post to your blog and the blog then will ping(alert) search engines there is new posts. So what i do is, my niche is medical subjects. So i will put up a medical article on my blog and a link to my sitemap to a new site. Usually the article comes from the new site and i get indexed with en a day or two. First omes msn then yahoo and finally google.
Nobody has suggested to submit directly to MSN, I have the addresses to submit directly to MSN, Google and Yahoo on my site: http://capmex.biz/resources/search-engines
I don't believe there is a submission penalty. However, a link from a regularly crawled site is generally the best solution.
I have read about this on DP lately, check it. Many SEs apply penalties if the site is directly submitted, but I do not know anything precise
an article explaining the matter: http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2163401 a small extract from it: maybe you can find more at: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=submit+url+to+google+penalties&btnG=Google+Search hope it's useful
it is the most easiets thing to get Indexed by MSN, and following pages will be indexed very shortly. i use Seo Express to send all my pages to be indexed, it is working u will see result in few days. or may be faster. type in google seo express and go to "submition " good luck www.nemolist.com lp
Blog and ping? What is Blog and ping? Also, some of you say robots.txt is a good thing and some say not. I'm a newbie to this whole thing. Any clarification greatly appreciated.