Citing Own Website as a Source - Spam or Not?

[Cosmic]

If someone joined your forum and began to post topics citing their own website or blog as a source, would you consider this spam, or not? This is assuming that the topics are completely legit, and don't break any other rules.

 

[ForumSource]

It would depend on the quality of their site and whether or not it was actually a legitimate source of information. If their blog articles were just scraped from somewhere else, then I would definitely consider it spam and ask them to either remove the incorrect citation, put the correct one, or remove their post altogether.

 

[Ashley]

I don't see a problem with it. If the content is of decent quality, and the give credit where credit is due and they aren't making it sound like just a spam post advertisement, then I don't see anything wrong with using your own website as a source of information.

 

[Cierra]

I think it's fine as long as the content it's linked to is high quality and is on topic. If not, I would probably remove it.

 

[John]

I think it's spam. It helps the member by creating backlinks, while it hurts your SEO score because of duplicate content. It's spam, especially if it's done repeatedly.

 

[MasterA]

It is fine if it doesn't break any rules. Although it is kind of advertise their own site but they are also helping at the same time.

 

[Tindris]

It would really depend, if they did it now and again and it was in direct relation to a discussion and helped to further the discussion I would be fine with it. If they were purposely creating threads just to be able to link to their site I would not be so nice about it

 

[Nebulous]

I suppose it would be fine, but if they aren't posting any content from any other sources, ever, its easy to see they're only in it for the promotion. After a while the topics would start to feel like spam even if they weren't.