In a post back in August, Matt Cutts of Google said that new documents would show up in minutes instead of hours or days. That’s a huge leap from a couple of years ago when it would take months. It makes a lot of sense if you think about it, for late breaking news especially. Why would you want to hear about very time-sensitive, important news on the internet if it’s a day late? But before, that’s how it was and that’s how people accepted it.

You can see how fast your blog posts get indexed by searching for particular keywords (”yicrosoft directory“) your blog post is about and looking for the time of the refresh tag immediately following the text link.

More recently, in a Webmaster World forum topic, this same issue was brought up and some of the replies were quite interesting. Even if your blog is new, Google will still index it in a very short time. People seem to think it is magic that their blogs are being indexed without having to do anything. But they should really be thanking their blog provider.

WordPress (what the Yicrosoft Directory uses), for example, submits all of your blog posts to Ping-o-matic by default, unless you change the setting before you publish your post. With that being said, there will be cases of people who do not get their blog post indexed because they opted out of getting their post to be pinged. I recommend posting your blog to the following ping services:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.bloglot.com/rpc/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id
http://1http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast

This doesn’t mean that you could sit back and relax as you watch Google index your blog. The reason why some blogs get indexed faster than others is because they have quality content, making their site look like an authority site over others.There has also been discussion about whether Google indexes Blogger posts faster than other Blogs like WordPress because they own it. It would make a lot of sense for them to do that. But for a search engine that is trying to give the best user experience, with the best results, this should not be the case. You would not want to have a blog show up for some arbitrary keyword just because they have a blogger account, would you?

Along with blogging, you should really consider submitting to directories as well, since they do still have some value.

One of Google.org’s first projects was to develop a hybrid electric vehicle that would be capable of driving 100 miles per gallon. That is a lot more than I can say about how most cars perform these days. They have funded to research and produce a viable renewable energy from wind and solar sources, which they hope will be cheaper than the energy produced from coal. This would also help decrease any carbon footprint that energy sources like coal produce.

Google.org has four other initiatives that they are working and researching for. They want to make plug-in, hybrid and electric vehicles more widely used. The reasoning goes the same about the carbon footprint and to help reduce as much pollution as possible. They also have an initiative called, “Predict and Prevent” which in a nutshell, looks to use all their resources to educate communities from emerging threats and infectious diseases.

Inform and Empower goes along the lines of their previous initiative, but this is to help improve public services within third world countries. Like most companies that do community service, Google.org goes above and beyond with how they began this initiative. They wanted to focus on education, health and water and sanitation services in East Africa and India. Most companies just go to their local beach and do a beach cleanup.

The last initiative works to help Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) grow. With Google being as big as they are, it would seem strange for them to actually try and help the little guy. But the way they see it (in a philanthropic standpoint), if they help SMEs, it will give more jobs to more people and help reduce poverty. This makes a lot of sense and since Google is at the top, and will be for quite some time, it is nice to see that they have this perspective.

This just shows you how, despite their best interests, the government is still not doing what they should be doing to help protect our country and environment. Google on the other hand, is going out of their way to help make advances in our already globally fragile world. We are at a point in time where action must be taken to protect our environment, and Google has taken the first step, if not, leaps and bounds.