Forum Links...are engines pinged on new posts?

[barant]

Can anyone tell me how links on forum posts work in general? If I create a backlink on a thread that already exists, how do I get the search engines to see the back link from my new post on that thread? Is there a way to ping them to let them know there is new content on a high PR forum page? I have been manually creating forum posts on d0follow PR 4-5 forum pages and want to make sure they get counted.

 

[barant]

Anyone?

 

[innozemec]

Yes, you can ping the forum thread url so the SEs come to crawl it again and discover your backlink there..

 

[CandyLand]

Google's algorithm understands forums and will re-crawl the page if you ping it or build a few new backlinks to the thread.

 

[omnipotent$]

If the forum is very active, the spiders will continue to crawl and index new content rather quickly. So it all really depends on how active the forum is.