Every time I put an inappropriate word into a post (such as sexy or sperm), my traffic from Google drops about 90% almost immediately. I’ve had this happen twice already, the first time lasted for several months, the second time several days (I edited out the offensive content and perhaps Google was quick to re-search my site). It didn’t get me kicked out of the Index, but it got me kicked way way way back on all search results. For example, I’m usually #5 or #6 for a search for China Expat. After both of these incidences, I got kicked back to maybe page six or seven (in the 60′s and 70′s).

Don’t know why it happens seemingly only to me, but it’s enough for me to self-edit out offensive content because even though Google traffic is still quite low it’s quite discouraging.

in regards to comments and how I moderate – I generally don’t. Unless it tastes of canned ham, or is stopping me from getting on this site, I am pretty open to letting everyone have their say.

My opinion is that if it’s really just ridiculously bad, they’ll get set straight by other commenters.

What do you mean about getting kicked out of search engines? I’ve posts on every topic known to Buddha and not had much problem being indexed.

Your link at the bottom is a little broken. I just saw that diatribe linked through a comment from your last post at The Humanaught – very strange stuff indeed. But it doesn’t even make sense – so we can afford to throw it into the ‘crazy’ bin.

As to comments on your websites – do you just delete the most offensive comments without a second thought? Some people are just too… something bad.

I know I edit out content that would get me kicked out of the search engines or render the website unaccessible from China – just things that have to be done in a way.