A question from a reader:

I thought i saw on a previous posting (I could not find it again) that you said when one makes a blog post that they should ping the search engines right away. I thought i heard that that was not necessary with a Blogger blog. Is that true? If not, how would you recommend pinging the search engines? Thanks!

Actually, I said I was going to talk about making sure your blog gets into the search engines. I never did, so let me rectify the error.
You don’t have to do anything to get your blog postings into the indexes. These days, the major search engines will pick you up and index and periodically reindex your blog.
The only question is how fast your new postings get picked up. Google reindexes the typical site about every three weeks. It can be a lot more often, there are pages Google re-indexes within minutes after changes are made.
The speed of re-indexing is based on Google’s judgment of how often a page changes and how important it is.
Definitely, Google is moving more and more in the direction of faster updates for the whole Internet.
So, the only question is really, what if you want to get a page indexed or re-indexed faster? Answers to that tomorrow.