pbradish - 10:01 pm on Oct 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

>Unless you are an SEO master, it will not have much impact on the business you are speaking ill of. I think its wasted effort. No one reads past the first or second page of threads on a forum. And would you really spend the effort for better placement for a business you don't like when you have your own work and income that you need to generate?

You serious? I receive a HUGE amount of business posting and answering questions on my sport's niche forums. I would say I receive nearly 1/2 my business thus far through forums whether they come across my posts (sig) or are recommended by other forum members to drop by. Likewise, plenty of forum users including myself have avoided particular merchants due to their bad reviews on forums, especially if there is a pattern of such reviews.