Content Curators Are The Latest "Big Thing", What Am I Missing?

Normally, a good website will link to other good website. This is the idea behind content curation.

By giving links out to other authority site, you are associating yourself with them and this is a good thing in front of Search Engines.

You must have outbound links as well, not just inbound links to make your link profile natural.

Curation isn't about backlinking per se and you can still use traditional and effective backlink strategies with curated content.

The idea is it is easy to create quality content that gets its own backlinks from people who like the content.

So you could create an article "Top 5 Gluten Free Desserts" and compile top recipes from other sites. That would get a lot of natural links as people would link to your collection rather than to 5 different sites..

That helps because it makes your content look much more natural. Many sites especially MFA sites try and minimize possible traffic leaks and try and funnel traffic to their offers.

Recent Google updates (apparently) give sites that have natural links both IN and OUT an SEO boost.


There are purely 'curated' sites like Huffington Post and Perez Hilton, but you can combine it with original articles. But instead of writing an article every day, you can curate every day and publish an original article 1-2 times a week (or less).


Actually the Page One Curation software you mention is excellent. The tools don't curate for you, they just help gather content from a single interface- instead of having four browser tabs and a text pad open. They also ensure content comes from sources that are designed for syndication so there is less chance (but still some) that you will be using restricted material.

So instead of going to Google and searching my keyword and looking for feeds then news, then flickr to look for images, then YouTube to look for videos, then twitter/facebook/etc., I just enter my keyword into the tool and all those resources show up in the tool interface and I can cut/paste/drag/drop into an article. The tool automatically inserts all the credits and links.

People have been curating as long as there have been things to curate. How long has Reader's Digest been in print?

Old autoblogs were usually a crude form of 'curation'. Same with video blogs that collect related YouTube videos onto one niche site.

Curation isn't a new fad, but the term is 'hot' in IM these days. The advantage for bloggers is it means many great tools to make your work easier.

Mahlon

Is Page One Curator better than Instant Content Curator or are they basically the same?

Content curation isn't the desert oasis that people seem to think it is. Popular websites such as the Huffington Post, Mashable ect... curate content and internet marketers noticed how effective it is.

IMHO curation software is a waste of money. Ive tried two softwares and they are both hard to customize, they pull images from flickr (always a downer) and really just dont get the job done.

Curation is hyped so you will buy the $27, $47, $67, $97 curation softwares.

Why are flickr images a downer? I saw that Instant Content Curator also pulls images from a Wikki... would that be better?

Thank you Drew.

Most of the "curation" sellers out there don't know a thing about curation. That's why they pretty much all use the same 3 examples, lol. Even sadder....reading their sales letters makes you wonder if they've ever visited even one of those 3 site examples, because what they teach you to do isn't even remotely close to what those 3 sites do.

It's also known as the big BS to those with half a clue. You're not going to magically rank because you've copied and pasted someone elses content to your "curation" blog. And even worse, post-Panda, that kind of thing can keep you from ranking at all.

Build it and they will come just doesn't work....not even with fake curation sites. If you do nothing to promote it, you will get nothing in return. Anyone who tells you different is full of crap....or trying to sell you something...most likely their latest autoblogging software that they now call curation software, lol.

Most of the "curation" sellers out there don't know a thing about curation. That's why they pretty much all use the same 3 examples, lol. Even sadder....reading their sales letters makes you wonder if they've ever visited even one of those 3 site examples, because what they teach you to do isn't even remotely close to what those 3 sites do.

It's also known as the big BS to those with half a clue. You're not going to magically rank because you've copied and pasted someone elses content to your "curation" blog. And even worse, post-Panda, that kind of thing can keep you from ranking at all.

Build it and they will come just doesn't work....not even with fake curation sites. If you do nothing to promote it, you will get nothing in return. Anyone who tells you different is full of crap....or trying to sell you something...most likely their latest autoblogging software that they now call curation software, lol.

Sorry tldr but did read the first paragraph and in my experience or knowledge I thought copying content was to be bad and will de-rank your site because of Penguin Update. So the logical standpoint is why would you want to get a copy content on your site when penguin is all about that bad and copy content?!?!?

Oh Jeez, Jordi. Run before Alexa shows up....

Hi,

I think content curation is a goodidea when you are not a grewt writer, write 4-5 sentences on a new topic, put & paste a text snippet from the other people content you have found and link back to the autor (nofollow).

But I wonder does perez hilton use other peoples pictures, when you use a picture fom a new post in huffington post or other big newspapers, I'm sure they will knock you out.

I think perez hilton now is a legal newspaper company hwo has the licenced rights to do this.

Or can I use always other peoples / newspaper fotos when I link back to them?


best wishes
marco005

Curation is for museums, not for websites. Websites need dynamic unique content to succeed.

The political blogs do curation very well. Depending on what side of the ailse you swing on there is

Breitbart

Or there is, on the other side:

Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post

Both of these site have tons of OPC. But these are sites that are destinations for people. They are not curating the content in order to rank. They are curating the content for their visitors.

CT

Hi,

I see that Breitbart does not backlink this other people content to the original autor, all I find only is the source who is the image from.

marco005

Larger sites like the ones mentioned, license ongoing material and photos. If you look closely, you'll find licenses from UPI etc. allowing use of their newsfeeds and photos.

Content curation is something very close to my heart, I love it, no more dependence on the search engines (Google can do whatever update it wishes) and no worrying about back links.


The reason content curation is popular is that its 'hot' with the general public because, done properly it pulls together content (written, video, images and audio) from hundreds of different sources and collates it all in one place, making it easier for the visitor to find what they are looking for.


It's kind of like an RSS feed but in an easier to manage format.


It is also a godsend for IM'ers as it is one of the quickest and easiest ways to build an authority site around virtually any subject and easy to monetize.


IM'ers tend to look at curation from the wrong prospective, like what am I going to get out of it! Instead of how can I build the most useful site possible, adding massive value for the people interested in that particular niche.



Forget Google, forget SEO and back linking, just use social media and the search engines will pick up your posts from there, plus if you have done your job properly 50% of your traffic will be repeat visitors.


If you are just starting out you don't need any of the software mention it's really easy to find and add a couple of relevant posts a day and should only take you a few minutes each post.


The best sites take some work to get going and a good social media traffic generating strategy needs to be in place to get those visitors coming back regularly.
But don't let that put you off the effort is more than worth it.


Hope that helps


John

Social media is the next big thing. Use quality content + social signals and you'll be fine.

REAL content curation is NOT a new thing. It is just a fancy name for something happening for millenia. Curator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Its being preferred by google is not a new thing either. ********THAT******** was what search engines were made for, to connect all the curators. So why didn't THEY become THE curator and make trillions of dollars? Because if you lined every computer on the planet up their collective IQ is approximately ZERO! They can't be curators. They can contain and fciltate maintenance of it, and maybe even collect and assemble it to make it appear like they can be, but they can't.

Steve

I'm convinced the name "curation" was adopted by all the software sellers because they think it sounds classy. Prior to the WF I had never heard the name 'curation' associated with anything but a museum!

When I first started my website-before I'd even heard of the Warrior Forum, I had a vision for it. I wanted it to be the top destination on-line for information, coaching and training products and services for people who work in music ministry. The Music Ministry Coach.com was never meant to be just me. The site was to be the coach, not just me personally. I could never cover it all because I don't know it all.

I have a lot of expertise in some areas but not others, so even though I knew what I wanted to do, I had no idea how I was going to gather all that information. It seemed overwhelming to me.

So when I started seeing some of these software solutions I did pay attention. A couple of them didn't seem quite ethical for reasons already mentioned. But the latest one, CurationSoft seemed to really get and emphasize the importance of using it for real content curation- the kind where you actually act as a curator, reading, evaluating, sorting and adding personal input to the content you find.

I'm relatively new to the boards here, but not new to shiny object syndrome. So for me this seemed like a logical way to accomplish a goal I already had, which was to make my site a top destination for music ministry-related coaching and training products, services, articles, etc.

I did understand when I looked at the software though, that it wouldn't be as quick and "push-button" as it's often made out to be. At least not for me. I'd have to read everything I post on my site, and I could never be comfortable with posting someone's content, changing the title or something and acting as if it's my own (which I saw one suggest). And for me the content would have to be very specific to the niche I'm trying to serve. General Gospel/Christian industry news, for example, wouldn't make the cut for me. It would have to be specific to some kind of learning/training aspect of improving music ministry, whether it's singing, playing, choir directing or any number of other things.

I can't effectively write about all of those topics but I touch all of them and know enough about all of them to effectively find, sort and add my own voice to other sources who know more.

So while software can't do that for you, it can help you gather all that information much more efficiently, and that's the draw for me. Just reading through it is time consuming enough. If I have to physically go to all these sites and rummage through them for hours that's just too overwhelming for one guy, and that's why I wasn't doing it.

This software, in my opinion, will make that process much easier by putting it all right in front of me and making it really easy to add it to my blog once I've done my part and actually read it and evaluated it for relevance and benefit to my readers. But that alone will enable me to go from posting twice a week to every day.