Another member was wondering if anyone knew of any quick ways of getting your site indexed by search engines such as google? rather than waiting months and months.

Pinging! Blogs use a concept called pinging. Everytime you publish an article with a blog, it pings the search engines and other websites to alert them that your site was just updated. An example of a pinging url is "http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2.'