For WordPress blogs, pings are sent immediately to ping servers. Google could reasonably crawl a new article within one second of the author clicking the publis

For WordPress blogs, pings are sent immediately to ping servers. Google could reasonably crawl a new article within one second of the author clicking the publish button. So if you have automated pinging built into your blogging workflow, then there should be no problem. At least until high-frequency traders get involved in this market :)