It would seem so in my case: A search for the keyword "Salamangkero" shows my blog at either 1st or 2nd place while the main site itself is at a pitiful #10. I'm positive it's also about updating frequently, not just the number of inbound links. I mean, I have to compete with an imdb site by updating my blog regularly just to keep my blog at #1.

About a forum reaching top Google results, it is not unheard of, I suppose. However, I guess it mostly depends on how the forum is implemented. Like mbacarra said before me, if the forum outputs pages in static html, it'd have a greater chance to reach the top of Google search results but, let's face it, this implementation pretty much sucks. Another approach is to use PHP or JSP, with a database management system like MySQL or PostGre. However, I don't think Google is able to access the content of dynamic pages, especially if a user is required to log in before viewing the page.

By way of example, a search for the words "neopets jelly" will show the Neopets Jelly World page at the top. That, my friends, is due to the fact that we have a lot of pages elsewhere linking to that page as the Neopets' Jelly World. However, look at the cached text; it shows nothing remotely connected with jelly. What it does show is the Neopets login page. As a matter of fact, all Google results for Neopian pages show very similar cached texts.

So it's not just simply about updating your site often or how many links point to you. We should also consider the types of pages we have on our sites, are they HTML, PHP, JSP, ASP, PHTML or whatnot?

 

 

 

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Google doesn't know the difference between content being stored in a DB or in a statci HTML file. As long as Googlebot recieves HTML, it's all the same.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/b...&topic=8522

 

 

 

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