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    • BobAnderson
      BobAnderson last edited by

      If we mention words such as supplement or lesser word cosmetic are they a trigger to anything Google side such as a more through look at the website or such as I can see sex ect being one.

      I am not selling the above but we do sell the stickers for them (not the sex ones) so just airing on caution on weather to have a page talking about them on the site.

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      • Chris.Menke
        Chris.Menke last edited by

        There used to be this concept of "poison words" floating around that I never really understood or believed it had any merit but I haven't heard talk of such for many years now.  Today, each individual word used on your page adjusts the page's relevance slightly but of more significance is the breadth of the vocabulary used on it.  If a word like "sex" is used a few times on the page, and in the title, Google will zero in on that word as topical for that page and will lean towards ranking that page in search results for that that term. If it's just used once or a few times on a page, it's no big deal--it's not going to impact your rankings for anything.

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        • RobertFisher
          RobertFisher last edited by

          Hello Bob,

          Considering you are selling stickers regarding supplements, etc. you really do not have a worry. First, no poison words and second, the search engines have already said, "we need your help with this and we would like to provide a solution." Since you are selling a product: use Product markup and there will be no question as to what you are involved in. 
          Even if you did not, and you were still selling stickers. The robots will look at a lot on the page and they will semantically infer who or what you are / are selling, etc. So, if you have supplements over and over and discount preceeds it, the inference will be that you are selling discount supplements. But if you have stickers for supplement bottles. Stickers for supplement boxes, etc. you will fall elsewhere. (Yes, all, I am being simplistic.)

          Good question though as I have heard the 'rumors' of the poison words, etc. Just never seen any proof.

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