04-20-2011, 03:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-20-2011, 03:30 PM by AceInfinity.)
(04-20-2011, 03:16 PM)Pulse Wrote: It is actually good to receive a Google Spider/bot on your forums. It means you have a decent amount of members and your site is getting popular.
Not necessarily, google bots join beginning forums as well. It's just a crawler, what makes it useful is that it gives a little added SEO to your forum. It doesn't really mean that your forum is popular, but you benefit from them more as your forum grows because the google bots have more information to relay to their search engine. Which means google searchers will find your forum a lot easier. All they do is view the data from your content, and mark it in terms of relevance and popularity on their search engine. They are basically like a friend that advertises the content on your forum for you. Spreading the word.