Spammy keywords in our sub-domain but no penalty?

[vtmoz]

Hi,

We have cigarettes and viagra as keywords in our sub-domain where our clients can post their business content. We have decent number of impressions and clicks for these related keywords. I have seen that these two words, especially "viagra" is most spammed. So are these hurting us? We dropped post Penguin update. Any correlation? Do you think that these keywords penalise us? We don't have messages or suggestion from Google

Thanks,

Satish

[TheSymmetran]

You would still want to try and get rid of them if you can. The point is not to watch out for Google punishment, but think of your user and the spam they are dealing with. Follow that mindset and Google will become only a secondary reason.

[vtmoz]

Thanks for the response.

Users are not actually spamming but using our pages as their platform. But the keywords are spammy keywords in internet world. Those pages are ranking good for certain keywords. So, I am confused whether to delete the spammy content pages or let it them being well-ranked pages.