We have had a fair few spammers recently posting links, so Jon the site owner has put a limit, before you can post any links. I believe it is 10 at present.
Hi Joe, and welcome to Access World Forums. (AWF) - I must apologise for the difficulty that you are having posting a link, however it's not setup to cause you annoyance, but to stop spam, which I believe you would agree, is even more annoying! Jon, the forum owner recently went to a lot of trouble and expense and upgraded the forum software, in the process he removed the 10 post link rule for new posters, which was a feature of the old software.
However I can tell you it didn't take long for the spanners to find out, and we were inundated with spam, resulting in the rule being reinstated. Now, we still get spam, but they are blatantly obvious because the spammer usually posts 10 meaningless posts which are very easy to spot.
A side effect of the 10 post rule is the moderators have a bit of fun at the expense of the spammer. You see this poor unfortunate spammer go to a lot of trouble crafting her/his 10 posts ready to Spring spam on us, and just at the moment s/he achieves the goal and releases the spam, Wham a moderator wipes them out! it's quite satisfying! So I'm in favour of the 10 post rule, mainly because it makes a boring job quite fun!
Regarding your link, if you want to edit your post, paste in the link, broken up so to speak, in text sections so it doesn't trigger the link detector, I can then edit it into to a link (I think)...
I for one, would be very interested to peruse your website, and I think I can post it places where it will be found more easily and hopefully boost your hits.
Regarding not being able to search your website, I'm guessing you're using the new Google website software? I have several old Google websites and they are brilliant, and I am reluctant to lose them. I don't know what Google's intentions are, but I'm sure they will phase them out one day...