Google loves weblogs (blogs, or other name #$%$#$ that means the same). Many people are wanting to get up and running with listings in Google asap. I read them in the forum all the time. The quickest way to get listed in Google is to start a weblog in a family of blogs like Radio Userland, Blogger.com etc.
You can see how we did it in this article:
Google Village - How We Did It .
Personally, I would not start a normal website without having an attached weblog. It will be the weblog that gets attention first.
If you have questions, observations or you would like to disagree with me, I welcome the discussion.
If you have had similar experiences, please let me know and I would like to undstand any thing better than we can do, or things that might have cause us difficulties now or in the future.