Dear snowflakegirl,
The engines crawl forums like this probably more than they crawl any other venue, because the forums are considered to be "chock" full of new content. Many users know this and post religiously in the forums to get additional links into thier sites. New web sites can use the same trick, post thier sites link here, or in a forum like it, knowing that the engines will find that link quickly, and follow it back to thier site, which gets it indexed in the shortest possible time.
You yourself could be using your posts here to not only create links to your web, but also boost your keywords on the engines by using your keywords in your signature, this practice is known as "anchor text", and is much more effective than a normal hyperlink. Read jesups post in this forum about the benefits of forum signatures, (I want to be sure he gets the credit, since it is his post). Look at my sig, It points to my web site, but the title is loaded with my keywords. Cool, eh?
As far as your links go, google crawls the web to update links once every 4-6 weeks, usually around the first of the month, but not always. I would advise a wait and see before you make any decision since its only been a month.
Good luck, and may all of your flakes, be snowflakes.
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