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This is the second time I got warning from google because of few adult words in my website.
I run few dating/social networking sites and sometimes it is really hard to filter all the content people are writing in their profiles. Sometimes people write something bad in their profile and now it looks like google is scanning all the profiles on my site personally.
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There are more than 2 millions profiles on my site and it is hard to keep blocking people who has written things like above.
Is google getting personal with me or they have started scrutiny like this?
I am really confused now..
Regards
[edited by: martinibuster at 8:59 am (utc) on July 10, 2008]
[edit reason] Removed specifics. [/edit]
No personal experience, so I can't say more
I think you are right.. As soon as google says anything.. i remove that.
If I were you, I'd take AdSense off any pages that display content that your users post.
If I were you, I'd take AdSense off any pages that display content that your users post.
Ah! But will that be sufficient?
In another recent thread someone got warnings for lingerie content on a page, and it was said adult content is not allowed ANYWHERE on a site that has adsense, even if the actual pages with the adult content don't have ads (but other pages without adult content on the same site do have ads).
Did I read that wrong? Doesn't the content type restriction apply site-wide, even if you don't have ads on that actual page?
If that's true, taking ads off pages with user-posted content won't protect you against getting the site removed from adsense, or worse, getting banned altogether.
Did I read that wrong? Doesn't the content type restriction apply site-wide, even if you don't have ads on that actual page?
Possibly, but that doesn't mean Google goes around banning every site that has an occasional four-letter word or sexual reference. To use the OP's topic of dating/social networking sites as an example, a career-networking site for Presbyterian clergy is likely to be given more slack than a hookup site for swingers. The farther the pendulum swings in the "adult" direction, the more likely it is that Google (or anyone else) will conclude that the waddling, quacking object really is a duck.
I have plans to be even more aggressive in controlling this sort of content. Offensive language is against my site's TOS anyway. I don't think Google has any problem at all with AdSense on user-generated content. You just have to keep it under control. Getting multiple warnings isn't a good sign.
