Should we crawl user profiles?

[josei]

Hi there,

We have a service whereby we measure people's personalities and reputation.

We would like to be able to search: "Reputation of XXX" and you would find the particular reputation profile of that person.

However the differences for each page are limited. Effectively the name, and a few numbers that measure such reputation.

Would crawling these profiles affect us due to "thin content"? Would you consider any alternative strategy?

Thanks!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Yes, you probably wont do too well in rankings if you just have a single number/name difference for many pages. Maybe add in more unique information related to that person? e.g. where you got your information, where you got information from, last 3 tweets/status updates, etc. Although this is all aggregate content (which Google still considers inferior to unique content) it should help you rank in addition to giving your users more useful information.