And for the Search Engines submissions this is what I did, and you may follow the same with your blog or website you wish to promote, just replace the "url": http://henri99.blogspot.com/ with your own "url". The links below will open on a new window or tab, or you can hold down the [ctrl] key and click the link, this will also have the same effect.
And yesterday, I pinged my blogs; should I ping my blogs every time I post new content? I wonder if there is a free tool that could do just that.