Sometime, look at the source of an FR thread.
That notifies Google's spider to wake up and suck down the current thread and update those indexes!
For an advertising driven website I can see the utility of this, but how does a quick response from google to a Freeper thread help Free Republic?
This can be quite useful when some crackpot posts garbage on a thread. Just look up what he posted. If the current thread comes up first in the search results, you can bet he's invalid!
I'm not following your point here. I'm not grasping the utility of this.
It testifies to our importance.
It also makes it easier to find things. E.g., has an issue been discussed recently? Has a piece of breaking news already been posted?
I'm not following your point here. I'm not grasping the utility of this.
If a crackpot posts what isn't so, and it appears at the top of the SERP, that's often evidence he's making it up as he goes along. On, the other hand, if it's true, it's likely confirmatory hits will come first or at least be present.