How does Google treat widgets?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jim Munro: How does Google treat widgets for big people and widgets for little people. :)
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  Dejan SEO: Well, well, well would you look at that. There's a new widget on our blog! ;If you like what you see, help yourself with the embed code: http://algoroo.com/#widget
  
  Here are some of our early adopters:
  https://www.mediatools.cl/blog/
  http://jmanchev.com/kategorii/seo-blog/
  http://onlineownership.com/blog/
  https://dumbseoquestions.com/
  
  If you're using our widgets let us know and we'll add your blog to the list.
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  Edwin Jonk: Personally I would be risk averse meaning that I would nofollow the links. Or have a more flexible widget. That is, instead of html one could use javascript hosted on your own server. ;
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:23:21 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/how_does_google_treat_widgets +Jim Munro
  
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