How adult makes it adult?

very small "adult" content on otherwise G-rated page

[LifeinAsia]

A client has a question. Let's say you have a page about book stores with a few dozen listings for local book stores. One of the listings happens to be an adult book store. Could that 1 "adult" listing on an otherwise non-adult page violate AdSense's ToS for "adult" content?

[Leosghost]

Wouldn't worry me ..but IMO G will not like it, if the client has adsense, they might not get to keep it.

[ember]

Is it worth putting up one listing like that and risk losing the Adsense account?

[Atomic]

I'm with Ember. The risk to reward ratio doesn't look worth it.

[LifeinAsia]

Is it worth putting up one listing like that and risk losing the Adsense account?

Well, that's just one example that was found. It would actually be a matter of checking millions of pages to look for exceptions like that one.

One option would be to create a filter and run all 25 million+ listings against the word filter. Anything matching the filter wouldn't be displayed by default. But users could have a link to "turn on adult listings" and then have AdSense turned off on those pages.

Some problems with that:
1) Users may figure out that they can turn off all AdSense ads by just browsing in adult mode (reducing revenue)
2) A lot of listings may get filtered by mistake (e.g. filtering for "adult" would flag any nursing homes with "adult" in their names).

[netmeg]

Can't you just filter off all or most of the adult stuff to a different section or taxonomy?

[LifeinAsia]

Can't you just filter off all or most of the adult stuff to a different section or taxonomy?

All the adult categories in the taxonomy are already flagged as such (no AdSense on those pages).

The issue is individual listings (that may be adult) that are in non-adult categories, like the example above.

[Edge]

@ LifeinAsia, I'm not sure what you are thinking culturally, however I'm positive that one "adult" listing is too many for American policy or rule makers.

[ken_b]

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