nice to hear you are enjoying the forums!
rules, laws whatever; we prefer to let common sense prevail. as long as there is no pre meditative effort by the member to use the forum solely for commercial purposes then we are lenient towards our members who are actively involved with, and contribute to, our little community on- and off line. those who register, post their links, never to be seen again will be met with very little sympathy from the admins. JohnF's signature attests to that:
"Don't piss me off! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies!"
the above can be seen as being naive and perhaps we'll have to revise our strategy in future and strengthen security, as we have done recently with the private message privileges of this forum. those who believe they can boost there SERP rankings by posting links on ExpatinTurkey.com are wrong. the search engines completely ignore any links posted within the forums! for those who'd like to share their personal blog, website, on line photo album, etc. you may list your link in your profile but we are not keen for you to do so in your signature.
well, that pretty much is it! people who are doing wrong probably know full well that they are. and as you said at the beginning of your post that you are pretty sure you are not spamming your blog, you'll have very little to fear of the ban-meister
you have advertised your blog, listed your site in your profile and i am sure a few of us have already checked out your site. thus continue to enjoy the forum and we are looking forward to your posts.
