Google Sitemaps is an excellent way to submit your site to Google. If you are not sure of what a site map is -

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

See here to see what are the data stored in a sitemap and why.
Google provides the option to tell it through the robots.txt file asto where the sitemap file is located.

Just add this into the robots.txt file with the link to your sitemap file -

Sitemap:http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

You can submit sitemaps(in xml format) in the Google Webmaster’s Tools but in case you are worried how to make one, here’s a quicky!

Goto XML-Sitemaps and submit your site url, give in the settings(updated hourly,monthly etc) and allow it to make a sitemap. It may take some time but it’ll also show how many files are processed and how many are yet to. A maximum of 500 files will be taken care of - not more(T’was free remember?)

You can get the sitemap done in ROR Format,Text,Compressed XML Format,Uncompressed XML format, or even HTML format(for site use).

If you don’t know John Chow - He’s one of the most popular blogger who writes about making money online, posts yummy pictures of dishes he had the other day at the restaurant, posts pictures of those snazzy cars and yet somehow manages to boast of a fat check he made that month end with his experiments with money making tools online.

He’s been running a Link back offer quite recently by which you can get a free PR4 link as well as some traffic if you review his blog and tag him with “Make Money Online” anchor text.

A bit of history here - John Chow had been running an IM Ad campaign on popular blogs like Problogger.net using Google AdWords and I’ve been doing the same thing on Labnol as well. Legend has it that i had copied his idea.

Well, as for me, the PR 4 thing was not at all attractive, what was actually attractive is that Traffic he would give me if he had reciprocated my link. So i did a quick review here on March 21. Before the post, i had infact checked out some already linked posts on his website so that i made no mistake. Since then, I’ve been watching regularly his “Reciprocation Links” - but in vain.

Wonder why John missed my blog linking to him? I see that in the current batches on his site, blogs that have reviewed him after i have is shown up - which leaves me to assume that my link is ignored.

Curious - probably John didn’t like me call him “Evil guy with huge head” - like Mubin did(who is already linked back by John!).

These are the scenarios when the blogosphere get’s rusty with poor linkers and people with no community spirit. Sad.