cnn rss feed to enhance seo?

I was playing around with the page builder and found that I can get updated cnn news to my home page via "RSS".

Would this hurt or help search engine ranking or make no difference either way.

It might help, can't hurt, but really have no definitive answer on this.  Depends on what your site is based on I'm sure as to whether it helps or hurts.

After hours of research I have found that if it's displayed via java script, most  robots won't be able to read it. And that's how mine is set up now, the built in rss block.

BUT if you figure out a way to do via PHP (Which I'm still working on with frustration) The robots will be able to detect the text. I also read this can be a good thing if the rss content is inline with what your content is then it does help your rankings.

if you have an rss feed on your site, go in your browser and totaly disable your java script. you will notice the forums posts on your home page and rss feed will not pull up! lol

There are RSS Readers available that return both PHP & Javascript codes to add to your site, I think that someone has posted on how to add a PHP block to Dolphin, unsure if it was on this site or Expertzzz.com

RSS in Javascript format is readily available from most RSS Publishers but what they do not tell you is that Javascript is not search engine friendly. What that means is search engines do not read Javascript. Any thing placed on your web pages in javascript format will not be read by the indexing search engines.

The only benefit RSS in Javascript format is for human site navigation only & a good way to loose your site visitor to another site if the RSS is an out bound feed.

I wouldn't pursue this if it's sole purpose is for SEO. I imagine there's 1000s of websites that use the CNN news feed and original content that is specific to your pages overall subject is the key.

Your pages can actually be penalised for duplicate content. I'm not saying it would happen just for using a feed provided by someone else but I doubt it will do much for SEO. Your time would be much better spent on other areas of SEO.