You may also note that pinging to get listed might potentially work for blogs, but it wouldn't for standard sites. I'm not sure if Google would list someone that quickly or not if it was a brand new blog, but they certainly wouldn't for your regular site
In my experience, I get to indexed in Google fast just right after I made a blog and even have a good rank in SERP. I did some of those things of 5 steps to get indexed but I notice that its just temporary. It really takes time to get the better result.
Well, submitting rss feeds to RSS submission directories and also submitting pages to social bookmarking sites may help you to get listed earlier on google...