Question About Search Engines!

[th3g4me]

Do they crawl forums?

Would having my link-map address in my sig, on forums I post at help my sites let the SE's spider/crawl them faster? Or even get them sent to my site more oftin to keep the listing up-to-date?

[sean416]

Originally posted by th3g4me
Do they crawl forums?

Yes.

Originally posted by th3g4me
Would having my link-map address in my sig, on forums I post at help my sites let the SE's spider/crawl them faster?

Not really, the forums you post at might have their main page indexed on a daily basis, however I doubt that every thread you reply to would be indexed or even crawled so this wouldnt really help you.

Originally posted by th3g4me
Or even get them sent to my site more oftin to keep the listing up-to-date?

Just because a SE crawls your site, it does not mean it will index your site. How often it indexes your site I beleive depends on the amount of backlinks you have...your PR or link popularity. If you have a link in your sig, The SE would probably index the most relevant thread that links to your site and then ignore the rest. So it would help you gain 1 backlink, however it wouldnt help you gain a ton of backlinks.

You seem to mix the two, a SE crawling your site and a SE indexing your site. You should probably read up on the differences between the two.

Hope that helps.