This is not for my current site, but I was wondering if I were to start a brand new site, what would be the first 5-7 things you would do to get a new site indexed by google? How long do you expect it to take to get indexed?

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MARK Z. & Associates

Coldwell Banker Real Estate
Northville, MI 48168
(248)675-6908
Northville MI Real Estate
West Bloomfield MI Real Estate
Commerce Township MI Real Estate

Servicing the entire Metropolitan Detroit Real Estate market. If you know of anyone looking to relocate to Michigan, call me with their name and number. I am willing to pay you up to a 30% referral fee.

Use the REW blog and write a post about the new site with its URL and respective anchor text in it. It will get indexed rather quickly.

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Gatlinburg TN Real Estate | Pigeon Forge Real Estate | Sevierville TN Real Estate

Email your network of clients and friends about your new site. On top of linkage, you also need traffic.

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Tampa Bay Florida Real Estate | Tampa MLS | Northern Virginia Real Estate

Indexed and ranking well are 2 different things, generally a few decent links from your existing profiles (REW Blogs / forums, AR, Squidoo etc) will get you "indexed" within a few hours to a few days.

Ranking well - that is a whole other ballgame.
Definitely updating link portfolio (Examples above) are top of my list, as they are within your direct control and cost you nothing.
Next as Tampa suggests, you could mail your SOI on the web and notify them of your new site inviting them to link to any of the content they might find helpful to their visitors.
Press release is good for exposure if done correctly and can get you some editorial links (But the site must be newsworthy)
Come up with a creative and unique section of content for the new site (One that does not exist elsewhere on the web) and then create an article syndication campaign that drives traffic with introductory content to the higher level authoritative sections within your site.
The list goes on and on, but that should get you started

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Morgan,
What do you mean "updating link portfolio" ?

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MARK Z. & Associates

Coldwell Banker Real Estate
Northville, MI 48168
(248)675-6908
Northville MI Real Estate
West Bloomfield MI Real Estate
Commerce Township MI Real Estate

Servicing the entire Metropolitan Detroit Real Estate market. If you know of anyone looking to relocate to Michigan, call me with their name and number. I am willing to pay you up to a 30% referral fee.

Does adding a sitemap do anything to help your site being indexed?

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Kevin O'Brien
Outer Banks Property Management | Outer Banks | Outer Banks Beach Blog
"It's always a great day in paradise"

OBX, it may but you don't need to. Getting indexed should take no longer than a day or two with a few good links from other big sites. Getting indexed is very easy, getting well ranked is a whole different story.

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Michael Brown REALTOR®
REHOBOTH BEACH CONDOS & TOWNHOMES| REHOBOTH BEACH REAL ESTATE |REHOBOTH BEACH MOBILE HOMES