YSM Keyword Controversy - Just My Imagination?

i have a site that sells adult products and adult movies (better known as porn). anyway, ysm and i have disagreements on what constitutes offensive links on my site. no problem, i try not to sugar coat the biz i'm in. if they don't like the link i have attached to a keyword they will disable it and send me an alert.

i then make a decision about the action i will take. but what i have noticed is, that if ysm disables a key keyword to my site traffic, normal amounts of traffic from sites i have link exchanges with or have submitted my url to, drop off drastically or end all together.

i have studied the data each time this occurs and that is the conclusion i am toying with. somehow, it seems that when keywords for my ysm ad campaign are disabled by ysm, people searching on the adult site search engines my site's url has been submitted to no longer find/visit my site.

for instance, "adult movies online" is one of my top performing keywords. if i make changes to the web page that this keyword is linked to in my ysm ad campaign, and ysm editors don't like them, they disable the keyword and alert
me.

within an hour or so of that, no more traffic to my site on that keyword.

the apparent cause and effect makes no sense to me, because that traffic was not coming to my site because they clicked on a yahoo! ad based on a yahoo! search. yet every single time they disable one of those keywords i get the same drastic drop in traffic for those keywords.

as you can probably tell from how wordy this post is, i have been mulling this over for a while, and finally decided to post it here.

the only reason i could figure this is happening is because the site is built on a yahoo! store server and even though the ysm csr's and yahoo store techs that i have spoken to at various times (on other issues) repeatedly tell me there is no connection between the two processes, somehow one is affecting the other.

am i just imagining a possible correlation?