Well... I would have liked the link. I know when I was first on these forums I had my links deleted too. Even though they were totally legit and not spammy. Btw I've never seen that practice on other forums and I have visited quite a few!

@openroadortho, the trick I have used in the past is to come up with a somewhat unique search for google that puts the site at the top position and then people, search google for "blah blah".