Hi all, I have recently launched my own simple search engine using PHP. I am getting pretty good traffic. My question; When a visitor clicks on a search result, does it automatically build a link to other websites? Is this a good technique to build web credibility and does it help with ranking?
i didn't understand your question correctly. You mean to say that you have created your own search engine for online users and people are searching to it. When people search on your search engine and visit the search result page, it will create the backlinks for their website. I don't think such type of techniques available for search engine backlinks. Your search engine is only the path to visit the websites. If your search engine data or listed link is getting indexed on other search engine then it may count as a backlinks for those web site listed on your search database. e.g. when you listed your website on directories. It will get indexed on search engine. Directories are also a type of search engine. In this case your search result may count as a backlink on other search engine.
Your second paragraph answered my question. The keywords or website name that people search on my site get indexed. At the end of the month (with about 3-4k visitors a month) these keywords add up. My next plan with the site is to turn it into a search engine/domain parking site. Thank you.