You can improve the speed in which your post is picked up in search engines by "pinging."

Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post (or updates an old one.) That is, the tool sends an XML-RPC signal to one or more "ping servers," which can [...]

I suppose many of you don’t know what pinging is. Well, the term comes from the process of sending data packets to a remote server to test and/or measure the connection between the two servers.
As it relates to blogging, however, pinging means sending a signal to a site alerting it that you [...]

All too often, web sites contain links with no title but the word "here."  As in, for more information click here.  Though this might make sense to the writer when the web site in question is a series of static, interlocking pages and documents that are navigated simply by taking one step at a time [...]