If you add your home web page to your profile then it's common courtesy to add a reciprocal link on your web site back to the Calis Beach site. The nature of a reciprocal link is one of mutual benefit - each site drives traffic to the other and each site gets an improved page ranking in search engines; as their link popularity is improved.
Try this search:
http://tinyurl.com/gvgcpHere are all the links back to the Calis Beach web site (you can do the same in Google but for some reason that Google alone knows, the results are not accurate).
Then try the same thing for your web site and you won't find the reciprocal link.
This is because as the Calis Beach forums are password protected, search engine crawlers and spiders can't actually access them to detect the reciprocal links.
The link popularity benefit is therefore only one-way.
Most forums allow read-only access that does not require a login. This way search engines crawlers can access the site unhindered, but users would still need to login to post. I'm not sure whether this is possible with Snitz but if so, I would suggest that the access model be changed so that all our sites move up the rankings!
Nick