Good article on alternative way to get your urls indexed in Google.

1. Google Video
2. Google Base
3. Google Local
4. Google Blog Search
5. Google News

I found Google Blog Search was easy for Webmetricsguru.com posts to get into - and those listing migrated into the regular index.  There are times when I’ve blogged at conferences like Webmasterworld and by the time the next session started I had people looking at my blog post from the previous session I just blogged about.