How to ping live.com

You create a sitemap and add/ping to Live.com by:
http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[Your sitemap web address]

Exp:
http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=
http://webeyes.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Let use webmaster tools of live.com to make your site/blog index successfull

How to get index for new site fast

To get index on search engine like Google for new site fast (example: webeyes.blogspot.com)

1. The first one: get many links to your site ( In SEO called backlink). You can ask your friend, colleage to put a link to your site on his site which is already indexed by search engines. You can joint some forums, post some question, talk about thread on that and remember put your site as signature. Create some accounts on social bookmarking site and bookmark it.

2. The second: use sitemap and submit to search engine. You can create one at xml-sitemaps.com. The sitemap of blogger is in file atom.xml (http://webeyes.blogspot.com/atom.xml)
Submit sitemap to yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Submit sitemap to google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

3. Add feed (http://webeyes.blogspot.com/rss.xml) to http://my.yahoo.com ; http://www.google.com/ig ; http://my.msn.com

4. Use Google Analytics to track your site http://www.google.com/analytics/

How to ping yahoo manually

You can ping yahoo manually by visiting the following URL via your browser:

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[THE URL OF YOUR FEED]

If your blog URL is: http://[USERNAME].blogspot.com

Then your feed URL is:
http://[USERNAME].blogspot.com/atom.xml

Ex:
http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://webeyes.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Other way:
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=[URL OF SITEMAP]

When your sitemap is changed (ex: a new post), you can ping Yahoo again so that Yahoo can index your site quicly.

Search Engine Ranking Factors

To get high ranking on search engine, you should know how search engine rate some factors on your site. Search engines sometime change their algorithms.
You can find more at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/ranking-factors-version-2-released.

List social bookmark sites

Social bookmark site where you can save your favorite links and share with others. All links are in just one place. These are some social bookmark sites with high rank
http://del.icio.us
http://www.digg.com
http://www.technorati.com
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.slashdot.org
http://www.furl.net
http://www.nowpublic.com
http://www.reddit.com
http://www.simpy.com
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com
http://google.com/bookmarks
http://favorites.live.com

Matt Cutts talk SEO tips for bloggers

Matt Cutts who is working for Google, has introduced Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers at Word Camp 2007 on his blog. You can find some useful information for search engines optimization on your blog. There is PowerPoint file, some links to find summary of talk.

Submit website blog to search engines

There are many search engines nowadays. But I think you need submit only
three search engines below:
1st: Google search engine is the best at present.
2nd: Yahoo search
3rd: MSN (live) search
Submit url to Google
Submit your site to Yahoo search
Submit to MSN (Live) search