<p>It's <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15432/is-posting-links-to-your-own-blog-site-valid">been</a> <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29954/on-topic-self-promotion">covered</a> <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15787/how-do-i-mention-my-own-products-in-answers">before</a> that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/120163/ira-baxter">Ira Baxter</a>'s recent posts, presumably because they all link to his website. Initially I disagreed because his answers seem for the most part relevant to the question, but then I looked into it more and realized there's three things that set this apart from most of the related cases that have come up:</p>

<ul>
<li>This isn't an occasional thing -- he's posted <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22semanticdesigns.com%22%20user:120163&amp;tab=newest">412 links to his website</a> in the last year</li>
<li>This isn't a random blog he writes for a fun, it's a for-profit company he <a href="http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Company/People/idbaxter/index.html" rel="nofollow">founded</a> and makes money promoting</li>
<li>I'm not willing to go through all 412, but from the sample I checked, he generally doesn't mention that the products he's recommending are his own. The site is linked from his profile, but most people aren't going to check that</li>
</ul>

<p>Is all this considered acceptable use, or are the spam flags accurate?</p>

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