Strange but true fact!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my co-worker who is handling client side in PPC for which he is being paid from client . He used to write that URL while posting his questions or answers in forum. One day one dirty ,cheat site took his URL and charged for money from that client saying that my friend stole his Ideas and suggestions due to which Google cashed many Keyword from that site. Basicaly he is saying that client is benefited by him indirectly so he sud be paid for that.
Don't ever post your clients links in forums /public. By all means ask for help, but don't mention the website's name. How would you feel if you were the client, and you saw the guy whom you are paying is asking around to do the job you paid HIM to do (and thought he knew his job well)? Also, sometimes companies don't want their link out to be indexed by SEs before they are completely done with the design.
On the other hand some professionals tell their client when they've encountered a problem and are open about the fact that they've asked for help from a third party. The client is happy so long as the outsourced work is done to a standard and they're kept in the loop.
were they not some sort of terms of agreement before siging up and posting in the forum that he could have held to, to protect himself, always look for the small print in these cases hey?