A Google Webmaster Help thread has advice from Googler, JohnMu, on how to help get your blog included in the Google Blog Search index. John said to basically manually ping Google with their pinging service.

To do so, go to http://blogsearch.google.com/ping and add your blog.

John said:

The pinging service launched in October 2006 and Google Blog Search in general launched September 2005.

To be honest, it seems to me that Blog Search is slowly being phased out in exchange for a focus on real time search. The last time we really wrote about Google Blog Search was just about a year ago. So I am just under the impression that Google is not caring much about blog search and focusing efforts in other areas – which is fine.

Do you think this is true and if so, is it a bad idea?

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.