Free tool, and it ranks well for adult sites and checking if they are down, will that hurt us with ranking for normal sites with google?

[bwb]

Hi all,

We rank for searches around "is youporn down" and similar because we provide a free tool to check if a website is up or down: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youporn

I am worried that ranking for these adult searches is hurting us with ranking for things like "is reddit down", thoughts?

I'd appreciate some input!

[effectdigital]

It could potentially do some harm yes. If you are even referencing porn sites and people can navigate to that URL internally, then minors could find the name of the porn provider and Google it or click links from your site to the adult site (if there are any links). As such you automatically make your site an adult site. How severely Google will grade you on that, I don't know. It's a risk I wouldn't take, personally. Same for linking to gambling site, or new (fake) medical product and treatment sites

[jasongmcmahon]

It's a potential yes since you have the websites listed on your website as a link. Have you tried to programmatically filter porn related phrases?

[bwb]

We decided to test it, so we noindex / nofollowed all of those sites, they can still use the tool but it won't show up in the index.