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Content Curation Guide for SEO - What, How, Why. 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.

Content Curation Guide for SEO - What, How, Why

When it comes to the Internet, I imagine it as the warehouse where the Ark is archived at the end of Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ark is that outstanding content someone has produced and that no other will be able to see again, because it is forgotten and hidden between gazillions of other contents. Apart from the gigantic volume of pages present in the Internet, for a long time, search spam has been making the discovery of reliable sources difficult; and – let's be honest – Social Media has enhanced this issue, because it added even more noise and dispersion.

Actually, as Mitchel Kapor said once, getting information off the Internet is like having a drink from a fire hydrant. To tell the truth, this problem is not new. What is Content Curation? This is especially needed in the Internet era. How to do Content Curation: The Tools Zite Flipboard. Content Curation Tips to Get You Started. Two of the biggest buzz words surrounding Social Media are ? Content Curation?. I see those two words pop up in my Hootsuite dashboard almost every five minutes.

What exactly does content curation mean, and should you be curating content? Let? S start with a definition from Jennifer Hanford of B2B Inbound Online via her article : ? There are plenty of content curation tools out there that can help you ease into obtaining information to share and hopefully start engaging with your customers! Here are a few basic tools to help you get started: - - Type in some key words that relate to your business field, decide what type of results you would like (blogs, books, everything, etc), how often you would like the results, how many results you would like, and where you want the results delivered!

- -If you do not want all of your Google alerts coming to your email, you might consider having them sent to your Google Reader. Curationbook: curation nation book. Curation. 5 Tips for Great Content Curation. Steven Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites.

5 Tips for Great Content Curation

He's also the author of Curation Nation. You've heard the buzz word — curation — being thrown around like it's a gadget we all know how to work. In reality, good content curation isn't as simple as pushing a share button. It's actually a combination of finding great content and following some simple best practices on how to successfully share that content. If you're a curator looking for some boundaries in what feels like the Wild West, here are five best practices to consider. 1.

Be part of the content ecosystem, not just a re-packager of it. 2. Audiences expect some regularity, and they'll reward you for it. 3. It used to be that your audience came to you. 4. Having a voice as a curator means more than creating and curating your own work. 5. Take the time to give attribution, links back, and credit. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay. Steve Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a video Curation and Publishing platform.

Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

Rosenbaum is a blogger, video maker and documentarian. You can follow him on Twitter @magnify and read more about Curation at CurationNation.org. For website content publishers and content creators, there's a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, the relatively new practice of editorial curation — human filtering and organizing — has created what I'm dubbing, "The Great Creationism Debate. " The debate pits creators against curators, asking big questions about the rules and ethical questions around content aggregation. In trying to understand the issue and the new emerging rules, I reached out to some of the experts who are weighing in on how curation could help creators and web users have a better online experience. The Issues at Hand Who are curators? Where We Stand Now.