Will the word arse in a domain name cause a problem

[AlanMosley]

I have a customer that wants to use the domain name cooksarse.com, what my concern is that the word arse may cause him problems with search engines, even get flaged as Adult content, or family filters.

The site is a fun social site and nothing about it you couyld not talk about in church except the name of the site and domain. "cooks arse"

am i being overly concerned or could this be a problem

[Hondaspeder]

I couldn't imagine it getting flagged if it didn't contain more adult content than just the domain name. As for reduced rankings, you're not gonna catch me givin out bad advice, but I'd definitely look into it further. Good luck!

[KrisRoadruck]

No it wont. Easy way to test this is with google instant turned on simply type arse and hit the space

if it displays something its ok, if it displays blank its filtered.

I've already tested this for you and it displays all sorts of sites. Clearly google is ok with the word arse

[AlanMosley]

I am still a bit concerned when it comes to geting links, will others think twice before linking to a site with such a name?

[KrisRoadruck]

you really dont need very many "branded" links when you have EMDs to rank #1 for your brand name. Just seek links with context to the subject matter rather than links with the anchor "arse"

I imagine very little of your traffic is going to be branded traffic anyway

Also for places that you are sending actual link request emails (which I almost always avoid like the plague anyway) I am going to assume that if your site is a bit cheeky as the name would suggest, the places that are most likely to link out to you are going to be the types with a sense of humor so I doubt it'd be an issue.

[KeriMorgret]

One thing to try is to buy the domain (if it's only a few bucks), put up some Lorem Ipsum text, then ask any friends with computers that have family filters to see if they can see the site. You'd at least know if it's being banned via the URL in that case.

The URL for my site is strikemodels.com, and at least one Air Force base firewall doesn't like having "models" in the URL, but I haven't heard of any other problems with it. My content is about model warships, not any types of human models that might set of filters in that respect.