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Traffic: To Forum Owners, it's a Good Thing
Odds are you wouldn't have started up an online forum if you didn't believe in the value forums offer Internet users. And if you're interested enough in the topic of your forum, then other people are as well. We share your vision and want to bring more traffic to your site by helping users find it - and the information on it - quickly and easily. By registering your forum with Twing, you're taking an important step toward making sure forum users can find exactly what they're looking for within your site - and this is the highly targeted traffic you want.

Our Crawler isn't Creepy
To ensure you always maintain primary control over your forum, Twing follows the standard robots.txt protocol. Our crawler identifies itself as a User-Agent: Twingbot/1.0 (+You must be logged in to see this link.), so you can adjust your robots.txt file as you wish. Plus, forum owners who register with Twing can set preferences for how they'd like to work with us. For example, you can specify the maximum tempo you want our crawler to use on your site, decide if you want us to restrict content on your site only to registered Twing members and alert us to adult-oriented material on your site. And by including a short description of your site, you can let users know exactly what they can expect to find.

Content-Specific Searches
Twing is dedicated to being a community search engine, so our success is founded on the ability of our users to find what they want and start taking advantage of their search results right away. The best way to do this is by providing snippets of the posts (and titles of posts) that can be found on your site within our search results. Why offer this kind of freedom? With more information comes greater opportunity for users to find highly relevant material within your forum, then go there and get involved.

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