putting a link in a busy and high
pr site to be found by the google spider is generally true...
however, i've experience in 2 instances that the google spider is stubborn and refuse to spider my site. in the first instance it took months while in the second instance, the site is still not indexed...
the site is in my signature (about bird flu) and i have it in most of my accounts in forums. it's about 3 weeks old and yet to be spidered by google - yahoo and msn is ok...