Establishing a Web Presence by Posting in Forums

[admin]

Before the internet, merchants often made more money by withholding information. To shop around for a car, you had to comb through scores of newspaper classifieds or drive to several dealerships just to compare prices. Before do-it-yourself websites, a contractor banked on your insufficient knowledge of the electrical components in your house. [...]

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[ritchey]

If the forum is related to your site, yes, it helps. Many forums also put in tags so there is no link value due to all the spamming that Casinos did a while ago. Google as always, has tweaked their algorythm due to how some people abused this type of links. Can't hurt.