Negative SEO

I currently rank fairly highly (unintentionally believe it or not) for the term 'teen forum' but don't really want to attract that kinda of attention. What can I do to get my site delisted for just that term (without damaging the whole sites SEO integrity)?

wait it out to see if its just a temporary ranking.

If not attempt to maybe remove any references to teen in your descriptions?

Originally Posted by woostar

I currently rank fairly highly (unintentionally believe it or not) for the term 'teen forum' but don't really want to attract that kinda of attention. What can I do to get my site delisted for just that term (without damaging the whole sites SEO integrity)?

Has it resulted in members joining and posting stuff you are not comfortable with?

Unless it has some measurable impact in this area, I would not try to lose the traffic for this area.

You could change teen references on your site to "adolescents" perhaps.

Keep in mind that some of the traffic with those terms will come from people you do want to visit (and perhaps link to) your site.

if it's just one or two pages that rank for that term, you could always add those particular threads to your robots.txt file, or even disclude it in the google webmasters area.

Note: if it's for your root .com or for a really high ranking page for your niche, do not remove it.

Thanks for the replies.

The problem is we do cater for teens in our 'Teen Pregnancy' forum (a term we also target and rank well on), but is a tough situation. Forums like ours attract young girls with stong imaginations (for want of a better way to put it). After stumbling on the forum they fantasize about being pregnant (even to the point where we've caught out serveral 'fakers' that have posted for months keeping up a fairly convincing story, stolen baby scan pictures from other websites and kept ongoing pregnancy journals).
Not only that but because we quite often attract girls in vulnerable situations who would rather talk to people anonymously on a forum (rather than family) we are having to keep a very close eye on suspicious characters that have search for teen websites to groom.

So it is a case of finely tuning SEO to only cater for search terms related to teen pregnancy.

I would hide the forum in the robot.txt but that subforum is on dmoz and would be losing some pretty good incoming links.

Maybe I should just leave it for the time being and see how things go. It's just as we get bigger I've become more obsessed with resticting negative influences that can effect our members.

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