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Selma asked me on the Walton.com Facebook Fan Page “How do we get the SE’s to crawl the site again? (“SE” is search engines, if you didn’t know.) This is a great question and deserves a great answer.
I told her the best way to get them to find you is to submit a “sitemap.xml” file. WordPress can do this easily.
If that made no sense to you (and it probably didn’t 
, then go to http://www.google.com/addurl/ and submit your site that way. It’s quick and easy.
After you do that, get a “webmasters” account per the book. You can track there how your site is being crawled.
Now, that would have been a great answer except for the part where I brush over the “Worpdress can do this easily” part. I kind of forgot to explain that one.
To make the answer great, I want to direct your attention to the “Google XML Sitemaps” plug in for WordPress (and away from the fact I forgot to put this in earlier.) Download it from the WordPress site and install it as any other plug in. There are a few settings that are pretty self explanatory. It’ll be fine even if you configure it poorly.
Once it’s installed and configured, every time you add a new post or a new page or update an existing item, it will update the sitemap.xml file and ping Google to tell it that there’s a new map.
Don’t forget to get that Webmasters account and follow how often they crawl your site.
If good relationships are built on good communication, this is the best way to communicate with Google.
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.
Read the entire article at:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/