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Curating Contents Bad?

by aprilgonzales
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Curating contents bad for you site?, even though you have permission to the owner?. There are bunch of curated websites I've seen, and they still rank on search engine.
#bad #contents #curating
  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    There is nothing wrong with curating content provided
    you do it right.

    That means you select high quality content and then write
    your own evaluation to that content and with that creating
    another piece of high value content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Tandan
    And always, always give appropriate credit to the author of the original content.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Not at all April, as long as the content is good. Also, I'd focus on creating your own content too, for a nice mix between sharing, and creating unique content. That combo seems to work best.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Jonas Phil VA
    Curating content works when you choose high quality content related to your niche and you also provide high quality original content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketeranas
    There is nothing wrong with curated content ! You just need to make sure on one thing which is provide appropriate credit to the author ! That's it
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  • Profile picture of the author littledan
    Referring to, or quoting from a third party post or article is highly regarded as a good strategy, as long as you are not trying to pass the work off as your own. Many sites, particularly news websites use curating almost exclusively. If done correctly it is possible to have a high authority website based purely on curated content.
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  • Profile picture of the author QWE
    Originally Posted by aprilgonzales View Post

    Curating contents bad for you site?, even though you have permission to the owner?. There are bunch of curated websites I've seen, and they still rank on search engine.
    Curation doesn't hurt the site but it doesn't help either. Google has duplicate content filter and when you have too much duplicate content, Google simply treats it as a thin content site.

    I've seen a site with PR7 which was purely made up of curated and syndicated content. It barely ranks for any targeted keywords though.

    Unique content is what help with rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Originally Posted by QWE View Post

      Curation doesn't hurt the site but it doesn't help either. Google has duplicate content filter and when you have too much duplicate content, Google simply treats it as a thin content site.
      It all depends on how you do it. There are sites that Google loves like the Huffington Post, very highly ranked, that is full of content from other sites around the Internet.

      Google doesn't want to see a lot of duplicate content on the same site but there are lots and lots of examples of sites ranking very well that are nothing but curated content. You will find the exact same article indexed at Google hundreds of times on different sites. Syndicated content is an example of that.


      Originally Posted by QWE View Post

      I've seen a site with PR7 which was purely made up of curated and syndicated content.
      That's my point. Curation, done well, can be a very good thing and it can help your site rank high in the search engines. Ranking is done on a page by page basis.

      The key to great curation, in my opinion, is a small snippet or two of the original article (with attribution), then very high quality analysis, evaluation, counterpoint, or expansion by the author of the topic in the original snippet. In other words, the article you write is going to be mostly thoughtful original commentary on the original article being curated.

      To my way of thinking, the lazy man's "curation" of saying something like . . . "you've got to check out this article . . . blah . . . blah . . . blah" is not curation at all!

      The best to all of you,

      Steve
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