[Madhatter]

If you search google and find a site, then click on it, they don't get charged.
It's more than likely it's a glitch in the software to be honest, although I probably see your thread before you can see its posted, so it could be us, I'm waiting to pounce on your threads right now.

Could be search engine spiders, but unless you've constantly got spiders on here I doubt it. Spiders need to go through the same links that we do, and unless they're waiting to pounce on the menu, they won't find it till later, most will be mid page.

A spider is a computer than scans the content of each page and lists it on search engines kate. When it finds a link i can follow it, which is how they ususlly get on to a site. I've got my site address in my signature, and when the spider also called a search bot, gets to that link it can follow it and end up on my site.

The more links I put on good sites like this the higher my site will get listed on google.