Outbrain Select SEO Implications

[LyntonWeb]

A member of our marketing team wants to use Outbrain Select to curate content to augment the original content we have on our site.

http://www.outbrain.com/select/how

This content would be taken from other pages on the site and shown through as though it is on our site through javascipt. Obviously this page would be setup as a no-index.

This seems to me like something Google would frown on. Does anyone know the SEO implications behind using a tool like this? I'm concerned google will see links to a blank page no-index page and find it suspect.

[EGOL]

I'm concerned google will see links to a blank page no-index page and find it suspect.

I don't know about the SEO impact.  I simply would not want pages of smutty stuff looking like it is on my site.

[farbeseo]

If the text is shown via an iframe, it won't count as any kind of beneficial content. If it's actually scraped and rendered on your site, it will likely be classified as duplicate content.

The best organizations recognize that creating original content is important and they put the grueling hours in to do it. It's hard but it's worth it.

[KaneJamison]

Generally agreed with EGOL here. Not sure why you'd want this on your website, but if it's a single page that is noindexed and uncrawlable, I don't see a problem with it, either. Just make sure it's "noindex, follow" so you're not blocking up the page from passing any link equity it accumulates.