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the best thing to do is to use the interim to do the kinds of marketing steps you need to to ensure continued hits. make sure to optimize your site for google's spidering, and build links like crazy, especially from sites with high google pagerank. the more links googlebot sees to your site, the more likely it is to visit. get listed in dmoz and if you can afford it, on yahoo.
I was able to get both of my sites listed in less than a week with just a few incoming links to my first site, then with a link to my second site from my first site.
Confused yet?