I have a few pages where people can receive information about resources in their area. On the same page, I have placed random posts from my forum in case they might be interested in reading what's going on in the forums. The only problem is that Google is indexing a lot of these pages, and people are searching and finding my pages, but since the content is random, they likely will not find what they are looking for. Am I an evil spammer for serving up random content? Should I consider a different approach?
I dont think this is necisarily bad as long as its not for bad intent. You will always end up getting a few visitors going to pages that wasnt really intended for the random visitor. However if you are getting alot of traffic to this page you may want to consider putting some kind of very clear navigation and perhaps a path where they are so that the random visitor knows where to go from there and that this is some sub-page, rather than your website being spam.