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Content Curation & Your Social Media Strategy. How Content Curation Enhances SEO. Content is king. This is even more true after Google’s recent Panda and Penguin updates that make relevant and quality content an even more important in search engine optimization (SEO). For organizations constantly vying for the top spot in search results, content marketing is becoming a more crucial part of their marketing strategies – as seen here on our infographic. Not every business, however, has the resources or time to create original content on a regular basis.

With an abundance of well-researched articles, videos and images on the Web, it can be a challenge to create original content that stands out from the crowd. So what should brands do? An alternative to creating content is curating content. Content curation is about discovering, gathering and distributing relevant and interesting content on a specific topic or subject matter. How does content curation help your SEO? Get linkbacks. Generate social signals. Attract traffic. Widget for Blogger < Free Blogger Gadgets < Cincopa. Spice up Your Blogger Posts with Cincopa Blogger Widgets Looking for creative ways to make your blog stand out among the numerous blogs out there? Adding rich media widgets, such as slideshows, galleries, video players, podcast, music players etc. will surely make your blog posts shine in the stodgy crowd. What can Cincopa's Blogger Widget do for you? Cincopa application for blogger gadgets and the dedicated servers it uses are in charge of uploading, hosting, resizing, transcoding, tracking, transporting and skinning your media files.

Nevertheless, you still get a full control over the content and the appearance of your media. Cincopa Widgets for Blogger Cincopa specializes in rich media, stylized add-ons that are designed to draw attention, create interest and establish a better interaction with visitors. Why Use Cincopa Widget for Blogger? Cincopa has a great reputation for its reliable hosting solutions, content and media management tools, and extensive variety of products and add-ons. 100+ Free Blogger Addons & Widgets. Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you’d like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. Blogs that are on Blogger, WordPress or TypePad can now add the wonderful outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts. By adding the outbrain rating widget you will get immediate feedback from your readers, and they will get easy and quick access to your best content.

Blog Ratings Widget - 3Bubbles, a chat tool for blogs Adam Kalsey's Button Maker, add a button to your blog Babel Fish, add a translation tool to your blog WikiSeek - search Wikipedia with this simple widget. FeedCount - show off the number of visitors to your blog with this handy little button. Technorati Link Count - display the number of links your website has from one of the biggest blog authorities - Technorati. Gabbly, a chat tool for blogs. Social Media Curation Guide. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Last year on SEOmoz, I published The Content Curation Guide for SEO, which - even though it is still valid - I thought it needed a fresh addition. Not only does this post update some of the information shared, but it also digs deeper into an aspect of content curation that is actually the most used and, possibly, useful to SEOs and Content Marketers who must deal with more duties than just curation: social media curation.

For that reason, I gave a Mozinar last week about this topic where I explained why it is important to include social content curation in your inbound marketing strategy; how to prepare, organize, execute, and analyze your social curation activities; and what tools to use. If you missed the opportunity to attend the live broadcast of the Mozinar, you can watch it here. Joanna Lord does great social content curation on Pinterest! Audience Q&A. What Is Content Curation? The New Auto-Blog? Content Curation: The Ultimate Guide. 33inShare Content curation is a hot topic of discussion in marketing circles these days. One of the biggest problems businesses face when they try to pursue content marketing is finding the time to actually produce the content.

But when you curate content, you don’t really have to produce anything. Sort of… There are a lot of misconceptions about content curation out there. So I decided to throw together this content curation guide to slice through all the clutter and clarify some things (from my point of view, of course). What is Content Curation? Curation is nothing new, really. Radio stations are also curators if you think about it. But never has the ability to curate content (be it visual, audio or text) been so available for the general public.

In fact, most people that have any sort of online presence have curated content at one point or another. Content curation is really just the sharing of other people’s information. I have to disagree with this view point. Steps for Content Curation. Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web. Yesterday, the ever-churning machine that is the Internet pumped out more unfiltered digital data. Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 BILLION emails were sent. And that's not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts, and pins on Pintrest. The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. As a result, you're often unable to determine the difference between a fake LinkedIn friend request, and a picture from your best friend in college of his new baby.

What's happened is the web has gotten better at making data. While devices struggle to separate spam from friends, critical information from nonsense, and signal from noise, the amount of data coming at us is increasingly mind-boggling. In 2010 we frolicked, Googled, waded, and drowned in 1.2 zettabytes of digital bits and bytes. 1.

How will curation evolve? Curation. Content curation. Content Curation World.