Advice on Linking to an Adult Related Website

[jmccommas]

I have a question regarding whether or not Google would penalize my main website for linking to a website that has adult content. The site I am linking to is not a porn site, rather it is a site that sells web site templates for adult related stores selling sexy toys, videos, etc.

For example my site that is linking to the adult related website is here: http://www.websitetemplatedesign.com/

and the link to the site is in the footer at the bottom left which is an icon. And it links to http://www.adultsextemplates.com/

Im just looking for advice as to whether or not this could be a penalty or not. I did suffer major SERP loss in the last month and Im trying to find what I am doing that may have caused this.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Andropenis_Australia]

Usually if you have a link on your page it will have anchor text, to place a link to another site behind an inage/ico COULD be seen as a neg signal.

It may not be your intention, but google cares not about your intentions, it does what it wants.

You can always use the nofollow tag if you want to keep the link and are worried it may be effecting your site.