from the forum rules :
Instantly Bannable Offenses
5.
Advertising/soliciting. Using the forums for advertising or for commercial business deals and offers. See the MacRumors About page if you want to buy advertising at the site. You may not make posts to promote commercial, personal, or not-for-profit websites. Threads will be deleted if their purpose is to advertise, announce, or promote products, services, or organizations, build traffic at other websites, solicit donations, votes, or participants for surveys, contests, or product testing, carry out business activities including employment requests/offers, or other similar purposes that do not benefit our forum community. Memberships created solely for such purposes will be banned. Exception: Developers of iPhone and iPod touch applications are afforded special privileges, including certain posting of product promotions. See Guidelines for iPhone and iPod touch application developers for details.
Whether you directly profit from recommending the product or have a referral deal, I don't know, but by posting a useless link to your own website instead of a direct one to the product page you seem to be guilty of pimping your own blog, which is a violation.
new or not you should read the forum rules, there's a link at the top of every page.
