Does Google have a banned word list?

[xxxjay]

Originally posted by Linkster
The only two things I can think of - in their AdWords program they definitely have a banned words list - things like tobacco, cigarettes etc are banned - as well as some words in the porn world like cum, slut etc.

In the regular search results they have dampening factors for certain words to keep the English language results for those words PG rated - an example is "sex"


On your site you might check it in Archive.org to see if it maybe had a site previously that could have set off Google - if its a relatively new domain for you

Really just about every dirty word is "banned" in adwords.