Squidoo is another social bookmarking site and I think Google frowned on this Squidoo I have read news about "Is Squidoo Dying?"
I have a new site that I uploaded two days ago. I made my xml sitemap, and uploaded it to Google last night. This morning I check google for the site, and saw that it has indexed all of my new pages - this had to have been done due to my sitemap. Definately one of the most important aspects of getting your pages in Google. Backlinks, etc can take some time, but with a sitemap, Google can be all over your pages within hours.
This is one of the quickest and fastest ways to get indexed or to have your site reindexed. Just removed your sitemap and upload a new one and google will reindex your site right away. Many many many quick ways to get any new site indexed within 24 hours.
Getting indexed is just a matter of time. I registed this domain TheMemoryStudios.com and I just added an html index with a logo in it, never did any type of promotion, or added a sitemap, not even meta tags and it is indexed. Being indexed doesn't mean a lot in most cases. I have registered importsugar.com a few years ago and the page has nothing but a image and a few tags. Now it ranks #6 out of 2,260,000 results for the term "import sugar" and no seo was ever done there. Google is a mistery.
If you want to get on google instantly just put adsense on your site.... they have to spider you to know what type of ads to put on there.
Depends on the site. I am tracking the back links from DP (on veganisgreen.com) and so far its 11 hits. Although that does not count if the person typed the link in directly.
I also send my sitemap to google everytime to get indexed. After all, you wanna get indexed in google, so why spent time on other websites... Send your sitemap to google and get indexed within hours...