Poison words, need them off site?

[qualo]

So my site was number one for a keyword, then I added a poison word (rude word that SE's frown on) and the site immediatley dissapeared.

The word was mentioned in the body text but also used as a page title and in meta description/KWs

Is it best to remove poison words completely or are they allowed in certain areas of the site?

I have a blog with some poison words sprinkled around and it seems to be unnafected. Some of the most popular searches to the site are with poison words.

My guess is that a sprinkling of these words is OK only in body text, but has anyone else tested them or got solid info on them? It would be nice to know if these poision words can be used as anchor texted links as an alternative to on page SEO.

My sites aren't adult, but I'm wondering if I can easily outrank adult sites with correct use of poison words, because adult sites are more likely to be abusing these words.

 

[J-SiN]

Poison words are more likely going to link you with commercial intent or Viagra, not rudeness. My guess is something else is happening here which just so happens to coincide with your observation. If you get some more trusted and or authoritative links (for the topic) my guess is your site will un-vanish... unless you've already been banned.

As far as out ranking adult sites, you are looking at the problem wrong in two respects:

1) Someone searching for this type of content, using these types of phrases, are looking for adult content, and if you do not satisfy their query they will bounce from your site and you wont be able to benefit much from obtaining this traffic.

2) Google has said that they do not penalize adult sites for using adult language (in so many words), they just want to serve up the most relevant results for what the searchers intent is- no matter what that intent might be.

One angle you might be able to exploit however is finding a keyword or key phrase which has several competitors which are displaying explicit content and then going after that key phrase with a site which Google will not label the same way (softcore). This way the percentage of surfers which are using a browser which is (erroneously or otherwise) set to use SafeSearch will see your result and not the more explicit sites for that query.