Curse words bad for SEO

[eriky]

Does anybody know what kind of influence curse words have to your search engine rankings, especially in Google? I recently heard about a site that had a news article and the title contained a bad word that rhymes with duck. That site got filtered for a few days until they removed the word from the article title.

[jelewis8]

I can't imagine curse words would be detrimental to SEO unless you're spamming with those words.

[pageoneresults]

Curse words may tie into adult content. I would assume that utilizing curse words in a certain manner is sure to trip an adult content filter of some sort?

[eriky]

I think you have a point there. I never heard of a curse words filter either but G does filter out adult sites. Maybe that's what happened to the site I heard about

[DXL]

I don't know about curse words, but I know that I've seen sites filtered in Google's image search if certain keywords appear on an otherwise harmless page. Those keywords might include "sexy" or "nude" in the body of an article or interview, and the pictures that appear on that page of a person will only show up if you turn Google's safe search off.