Content Curation
4 Quick Steps To Add Curated Content To Your WordPress Blog
Apr 4, 2012
Curation is great way to build SEO, audience and content for your website. If you have a WordPress website, then you are just a couple of steps away from being a killer-speed-demon curator yourself.
Here’s 4 quick steps to add curated content to your wordpress blog.
- Login in to your Admin dashboard
- Find the Press This bookmarklet under Appearance > tools > Press This
- Drag the Press This button to your browser bookmark bar
- Done you’re ready to curate
Now, find an article you want to curate. We’re going to take one the SEOMoz blog about curating (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/content-curation-guide-for-seo). Here’s what you need to do next:
- Highlight a relevant excerpt on the blog (just a paragraph or so)
- Click the Press This bookmarket on your browser (you’ll get a pop-up showing your excerpt)
- Add some commentary and opinion of your own about the article (remember, you’re curating not aggragating here)
- Add any pics or categories you like (optional)
- Click the Publish button
- You’re done! Check out your blog and you’ll see you have a new blog post
- Here’s a link to an example.
Hello SEO, hello new visitors.
Here’s some screens that should help:
Select your blog article to curate:
Highlight the excerpt you’d like to curate:
Add some editorial comments of your own & publish
Review your post:
If you’d like to watch a quick video about how to install the Press This bookmarket, i created a help page on my blog FlashIssue.
Happy curating | Phil
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