I would like to know if Google would penalise me if I advertised to a site that had "sex" in the URL and sells sexual stimulation products, hair loss products and lubricants. This is very important that I don't get involved with a bad neighbourhood and feel the wrath of Google. The site isn't smutty/spam or illegal in any way but it contains a lot of the keywords "sex" and "sexual". All responses will be hugely appreciated, thank you!
Could really do with some more responses guys! I run a poker site so anything semi-adult can't be bad for us?
Well theres your answer. Does it look natural to link out to adult sex shops from a poker site? They are completely unrelated, its a huge red flag that the links are not natural.
Just think about this: If Google or other search engines will penalize sites getting links from sites containing content about sex and poker, well lets start giving links to our competitor from those sites. <--- do you really think that it's so easy? Worst case scenario would be that the links are not counted by the search engines. If you get a link from a site writing about sex and your site is selling sex toys well why should your site get penalized?
I think you would n't get penalized as they have no mechanism to detect that these links are unrelated to the present content...
That's not true. Do you seriously believe google can't tell that a poker site is unrelated and off-topic when compared to an adult sex site?
it shouldn't get banned if you don't link to unrelated sites that may give bad reputations to them....
well it is better to avoid it especially if your site is not related to this for you not to have the bad impression fro google.
I thought it was only bad if I was linking to a site like this from a site that gets viewed by children. Poker and sex are both adult and therefore it's not bad that I link to them. Surely?