Don't really know where on BHW to ask this. So here goes...

I'm starting a new niche blog, and I have a word that I want to use in one of the authority posts that is often viewed as spam or connected to porn sites or whatever. It's a legit post about women's health and how ED products (Viagra and such) have created issues for women. Do I just go ahead and use the word, or do I get clever and call it a nickname like "the little blue pill" etc so it doesn't piss off Google and punish my site?

Will having that as part of the subject matter, no matter how legit it fits into the theme of the post because it has such a bad rep going to cause trouble for my site with Google/Bing etc?

I guess the other question is in a WP post, can you disallow a crawler from crawling a word? I've read that I can "googleon/googleoff" in order to not index paragraphs etc, but from what I read, it doesn't prevent Google from seeing the word it deems undesirable during a crawl. If Google finds that word on my site during a crawl it potentially would label my site shit because of it.

Any ideas how to prevent both noindex+no crawl of a word or series of words on a post or page but still allow me to use the proper terms needed for the blog post?

Thanks.

I think this belongs in the white hat seo forum. Maybe you'll get some insightful answers there.

Thanks. I'll delete and drop it in there. Cheers. (Crap, I can't delete the OP. I tried. Sorry folks, I did post it in WH SEO).

Why wouldn't your use of the word help you rank higher, you seem to be assuming the worst.

You could do a blind test, where you specifically don't use, wait a month, then use it and wait a month.
The only problem is its difficult to then tell if you are doing any link building too, whats what.

I think you should risk it though. I mean you get sex education sites for teens that use the word vagina and penis, what the real difference?

Panther28 said:

Why wouldn't your use of the word help you rank higher, you seem to be assuming the worst.

You could do a blind test, where you specifically don't use, wait a month, then use it and wait a month.
The only problem is its difficult to then tell if you are doing any link building too, whats what.

I think you should risk it though. I mean you get sex education sites for teens that use the word vagina and penis, what the real difference?

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I'm tempted because the product is integral to the theme of the post and subject matter. I did a quick KW search and found that there wasn't spam links on the front page, but good articles, I just wonder if there'd be a way then to hide the word from the crawler so it doesn't get penalized should the article itself turn out to be popular. (Which I predict it will.)
Thanks.

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I don't think google will penalize your site if you use "the word" once.
However, if you are trying to rank for that keyword, then it could be an issue.

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Thank you!