Content curation is the next big attempt of creating websites that contain interesting and valuable articles, videos, images, interviews, reviews and so on for targeted groups of people.

As usually, if internet marketers discover a new opportunity to making money seemingly effortless, everyone and her dog are becoming interested in how to do content curation properly.

It is not, however, about copying and pasting articles and images from other websites – this is called “stealing” content.

Content curation as such is an art and wants to be mastered in order to become successful. So a content curator has far more to do than just gathering some new articles or videos on his or her website.

What you need is not much:

• A niche you are familiar in or passionate about
• Your own unique voice
• A brilliant keyword research
• Find valuable, existing content based on your niche
• A website (easiest is WordPress, selfhosted)
• An exceptional, thus very affordable WordPress theme that has inbuilt functionalites for this purpose
• Time to filter drivel from value
• Proper monetisation in place
• Engagement in your market

With these weapons and some creativity on your side you have got the opportunity of building a very lucrative web business and doing it consistently, you will be able to attract traffic.

Why does it work? Because the internet is full of the best content ever – readily available to everyone – if one finds it. And this is the point where the curator comes in: the art is to be able to find the best and most valuable resources for a targeted niche. Filtered (not censored!), without drivel, enhanced and presented on the silver plate. This is the secret.

Some content curation websites that work on that exact principle are the Huffington Post, the Drudge Report and actually every bigger news site.

So, why not start and create a new specialized news site for your niche market today?

Leave a comment below and keep the discussion going!

You’ve no doubt heard by now that if you wish to have Internet Marketing success, you need to have a list. Your list is a pool of email addresses that you have collected through optins from your autoresponder web form on your blog or website (as opposed to buying or renting a list from someone else). These are e-mail addresses that belong to those who would like to hear more about what you have on offer. Theoretically, this is the list that makes you money–when you can leverage it the right way. Keep reading to find out more ways to do this.

Just because a person signs up for your list does not mean that that person is interested to hear from you daily or more than one time each day. That sort of frequency is an indication of spamming. It also sees to it that any genuine message you have will be weakened. See to it that when you do send emails out to your list, that they have an impact and your subscribers are happy to read every word you write.

List Optin – Single or Double?

Add in a few checks to confirm that people truly want to join your email list. If nothing else, they must confirm the email addresses that have been used to sign up. A number of Internet marketers actually dislike this idea but those you market to will appreciate that you are making sure of their voluntary participation in their list. You need to also include an easy way for people to leave your list. The tougher it is for people to opt out of your list, the more likely they are to regard you as a spammer and not trust anything that you send them.

This sounds like it should go without saying. And you’re right, it probably should, but here it is at any rate: ensure that everything in your email is spelled out correctly. It is also very vital to ensure that everything is grammatically correct. It is okay to break the rules of grammar every so often when it is done with purpose and to call attention to something special. It is not easy, though, to continue to be professional and polished when you allow your emails to be replete with grammatical errors. It makes it very tough for folks to take you seriously and they won’t be as likely to purchase things from those that they do not see as professional.

Don’t Have Writing Skills for Your List Campaigns?

If you don’t have the writing skills, employ a writer to do it for you. A master content or copywriter could truly help take the writing in your emails up several degrees. If definitely makes a huge difference in your profits. A master copywriter knows how to write in a correct, entertaining and compelling fashion that sees to it people will take the action that you want them to take.

You can expect to earn all sorts of money with email marketing. Good email marketing can help you increase your sales and sell even more of your products and services. Obviously, though, make sure that you take the right approach or your emails are not going to be as effective as you would like them to be.

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Thanks to the birth of professional search engine marketers the top ranks are saturated with the pages of companies that can pay for such insight. That said its certainly possible to employ high ranking tactics in your own website. Actually the most basic tactics can move you up from an 800 position to a 300. However its the top of the scale where efforts seem almost inversely exponential or logarithmic you put a ton in to see a tiny change in rank.

How do you meld the ambitious overhauls required to attain significant ranking and NOT compromise the design of your site?

Design Cant Be Ignored

If you have an existing site youve probably tied it into your existing promotional content. Even if youve allowed your website to cater to the more free form of the net it should still be designed as a recognizable extension of your business.

The reasons for doing so are valid and cant simply be ignored for the sake of achieving a first age position can they? If your research into search optimization leaves you shuffling around thoughts of content keyword saturated copy and varying link text you are correctly understanding some of the basic pillars of search engine optimization.

And you arent alone if you have this disheartening thoughtIf I do all this SEO stuff and reach number one across the board who would stay at my site because its so stale and boring Im even embarrassed to send people there!

There are two ways to successfully combine design and SEO. The first is to be a blue chip and/or Fortune 500 company with multi million dollar advertising and branding budgets to deliver your website address via television radio billboards PR parties and giveaways with your logo.

Since chances are thats not you and certainly not me lets look at the second option. It begins with some research into your market some thoughtful and creative planning and a designer who is a search engine optimizer and understands at least basic CSS and HTML programming techniques. Or a combination of people with these skills that can work very well together.

Design is for brochures instant results are for the web

Thats not the whole truth but it will help compare and contrast design and SEO. In reality SEO needs the quantity and detail of supporting text that a brochure has but good web design has to catch a viewers attention in 5 seconds. Its pretty difficult to read and absorb the content of an entire brochure in less than 5 seconds.

Search engines need rich related appropriate changing and poignant content. And for them to rank you all of that must be on your pages. But if its not well organized and broken down into bite size chunks no one is going to bother learning about what youre offering.

Construction 101- Attractive Design and SEO

Sadly its very difficult to optimize a site without completely overhauling it. Youll soon understand why. Design and SEO must be strongly rooted into every aspect of each other possessing a true symbiotic relationship. Lets look at a simplified example of this. Lets say you are optimizing a page for the keyword phrase pumpkin bread recipe.

From a design standpoint Pumpkin Bread Recipe would be the heading for the page in a nice readable font with the words perhaps an orange-brown color. And lets add a fine green rule around it.

There are many ways to create that simple colored heading. However there is only one way that is best for both design and SEO. That is to use Cascading Style Sheets or CSS. In addition that line of code containing Pumpkin Bread Recipe needs to be as close to the top of the page as possible (which CSS also allows).

To a viewer the recipe text might be read more if it were located to the right of a photo of a buttered piece of pumpkin bread on a small plate next to a lightly steaming cup of coffee.

SEO needs to read that ingredient list and baking instructions. Search engines now understand on a rudimentary level that the ingredients are indeed related to the optimized words- pumpkin bread recipe.

Additionally it would take many extra lines of code to make a table in this example if you didnt use CSS. Search engines dont like extra code. In fact given enough times that extra code will make the keyword phrases seem less important and hurt rank.

Note: In the page code a few thousand characters more than you need to get all of that content organized would normally just add to your page load time and might be acceptable. But to a search engine that time can really add up. It wont read through page after page site after site billionth after billionth character of unimportant code to find the relevant text. Therefore the less code the better your chances. Moral- Less code more content.

SEO usually means REDO

In the previous pumpkin example CSS will eliminate the need for almost any extra code at all and provide the means to place the text to the right of the photo.

Now imagine that someone had already created this page but done so using other programming methods. The page could very well be W3C compliant well programmed and got the job done. However without designing and programming for optimization as in the above illustration the end result would have no significant rank compared to others that do.

You can be sure that there exist at least 30 web sites built to rank for the keywords pumpkin bread recipe. Note- why did I use the number 30? Its safe to assume if youre not on the first three results pages of a search youre not being seen.

While this is a simple example hopefully you understand that it would be impossible to optimize this simple page without redoing it. This isnt always the case but extrapolate this into detailed multiple pages in an entire website and the issue is greatly magnified.

Aesthetic Importance vs. Traffic

Everyone has an idea of what they want their site to look like. The pretty factor- splash pages cool flash and graphics must now be justified as to their importance to the bottom line. If you want/need to establish an online presence you will have to make some compromises in these areas.

Understand exactly the role your site should play in your company marketing.

Ask- What is the goal of your website and who is its audience? Is it for existing clients to see? Is it to reach new clients? To venture into yet untapped market segments?

Ask- How strongly do your other marketing efforts promote your site?

Ask- Is your website an extension of your existing collateral that must reflect the same graphical look?

Ask- Is your website meant to assist to your sales force or is it your sales force?

Chances are you wont have any single answers. Thats ok. It will give you some meat for your designer/SEO to digest and develop a solution for you.

Real case of Design balanced with SEO and salability

If you sell jewelry solely online you must have a catalog of exceptional photography and detailed high-resolution close up images. But you must be optimized and rank well if you want to sell any of that jewelry.

If such a company approached me with this project my recommendation would be this: If you sell a product people have to see that product. Lots of good images. The site should be slick and sheik and easy to navigate. The home page has to capture the buyers attention. If its very expensive jewelry the site should have a lot of class and elegance. If its home made jewelry the site shouldnt look home made.

However as you have no store front if the online community cant find you youre business will fail. So Id have a very optimized home page with some discussion of the quality of your product the history of your company etc. This is also great sales copy. Ad a few special catalog pieces with descriptions below some smartly placed gifs jpegs and readable type graphics built out of CSS and youve got a cool to look at content rich well optimized layout.

Id make the link to your catalog very obvious and prominent. Note the catalog is not the homepage. Id also include subsequent well written in depth pages about the history of some specific pieces. Load them with targeted keywords and a few images. Again make your catalog link very prominent. In doing so youre creating relevant content for search engines AND providing additional pages that can rank.

The catalog can be database driven simple and changeable and you have the foundation to build your search rank.

Planning Your Site

If your designer is not a search engine optimizer hire one to work with your designer from the initial development stage of your site. If you would like a visible presence that is not dependant on traditional marketing efforts to get your name around then you will have to optimize.

However with advances in html and css text itself can be a very flexible and attractive design element with endless possibilities. Site optimization consists of some rigid unbendable rules. It can be intertwined successfully with very creative and attractive design. If your Designer and SEO arent the same person or company make sure they have the same close working relationship.

Search engines take considerable notice of how many and the quality of incoming links to your site. Traditionally webmasters have sent out link requests asking to exchange links this however is becoming more and more ineffective as people’s email addresses are spammed by automated robots.

Method savvy internet marketers are now using article submissions. Here is how it works. The webmaster writes an article on the topic of their site including a back link to their site. They then submit this to various article directories. In turn some of these article directories list this article and its back link and also distribute it to all their members. Some even pass this onto other article sites.

This can manually take a long time however. A lot of copying and pasting of articles has to happen you have to log in and log out of sites and the whole thing can be very tedious. Over the past 6 months new products have been released that take some of the tedium out of article submissions. These semi-automatically go to the relevant sites and submit your article logging in for you and populating the forms with your article. They can be a great time saver.

Finally there are new services that actually go off and submit your articles for free to other large directories. They advertise on your article page on their site. This is a win-win situation. The article writer gets valuable backlinks to their site or their content read by many people the large article directory gets the extra content and advertising revenue so everyone is happy.

We highly recommend article writing for marketing your site it may take a little time but with the services outlined here it need not be so painful as it once was.

All things considered what we are trying to achieve is a website domain name that adequately describes your product or service is broad enough to allow for some growth and scope in product or service is simple enough for a person to recall and contains your most important keywords/phrases. From an Internet marketing perspective there are also considerations of company and product branding that may be brought into this specification. From an SEO perspective it may be better to use an older or established domain name that has been registered and known by the search engines for over a while these tend to be rated more highly by Google in a respect point of view.

In this article I shall cover choosing the best new domain name that you can without considering your individual marketing or brand requirements.

To do the following tasks I like to have a couple of browser windows open and a spreadsheet program. It may be required that you signup and login to certain websites but these are all well known and respectable websites and do this at your discretion.

1. Load up overture inventory keyword volume checker in your browser window. Type in your product name or service and submit. Copy the results across into your spreadsheet.

2. load WordTracker in your browser either using the free trial account or if you have a normal account login. Now using the wizard type in the same product or service you type in the previous step. Run through the wizard and again highlight and copy your results across into a new space in the spreadsheet.

3. Load up Google Adwords in your browser. Navigate to tools->keyword tool and type in the same keyword we used in the previous two steps. Ensure use synonyms are checked. Copy all words across into selected keywords and click estimate search traffic. Copy all results into a new space on the spreadsheet.

4. Using the spreadsheet we should have three columns and what we are looking to do is this step is weed out all items that are unrelated or irrelevant by deleting them from the spreadsheet.

5. Sort the three lists by search volume. Working from the top down highlighting and copying to a 4th space in the spreadsheet the highest searched on and most relevant phrases. Repeat these steps until you have the top 10-15 phrases and keywords.

6. Identify your target market. Are you customers searching for your product in your local region or are they open to World wide suppliers? Having identified this we should use this as the domain extension (.com .co.uk .com.au etc) in the next step

7. Using this basic list identified in step 5 you might be lucky and be in an industry with little or no competition so what we do here is remove any white space in the phrases and input them directly into your favorite bulk domain name registering tool. Check them all and see if we are lucky to find one of these is still available for registration. If the highest searched on term you have identified is still available and this strongly relates to your product/service you should register it now. If none of these terms is available then try using a dash (-) between words and also try adding words to the domain like “the” or “buy” to get as close to the highest searched on term that you possibly can. You can also try re-arranging the words in the sentence.

So now you have your list of 10+ domain names for your website to choose from and you should feel quite confident that they are relevant to your product or service contain highly search terms and are short in length. If you are in debate over which one to choose then always go for relevant and high searched terms first.

There are two main reasons that you should include content on your website. Content can help visitors develop trust in your product and your knowledge. Also it will help to increase your siteӳ appearance in internet search engine ranks.

First of all having content that is relevant can help to increase the credibility of your business. It can do so by providing important information to your clients and potential clients. If your blog is full of interesting and relevant information people naturally assume that your company is interesting and relevant to them. This improves your chance of adding these readers as future customers. Once they realize that you are providing an informative service to them they will gain trust in your and your product thus producing sales in the future.

Secondly the only way to increase your siteӳ chances of being ranked high with search engines is to include that good content. With optimized content you are able to keep your site in the top picks. Search engines will locate and rank your site based on the content provided there. If they determine that the content is good unique and relevant to people your ratings will improve. Higher rankings mean potential customers can more easily search and find your company and that in turn means higher profit for you!

So you have decided that you are ready to try blogs. You are confident that you can write good relevant articles to promote your business and product. However you just are not sure how to get started? You need to figure out how to publish your articles and make sure search engines are aware of the content available on your site. To do this you should employ the use of blogging software blog directories and article directories. Letӳ consider your choice of blogging software.

Blogging software can help you to manage the articles that you write. Most will provide features such as word processing database storage archiving search options and RSS newsfeed. Each of these along with others offered can help make using a blog more effective and time efficient for you.

In many cases you can order customizable blog software. This means you can choose which features to use adding or deleting various features at any time. For example some bloggers choose to turn off the comments feature to discourage spammers from leaving unrelated comments just to leave their own link.

You can choose between two main types of blogging software. You can choose hosted or integrated depending on your needs. Both can help you manage articles and there are even some free options available.

Hosted blog versions are those such as WordPress and Blogger. They are websites that host individualsҠblogs for free. Any articles published on a companyӳ blog are actually held or stored on the website that is provided by the software company. You will not use your own website as the address of your blog but instead will use the companyӳ website with an extension that is personal to you. This option is good for those with limited funds but it also can be less beneficial to your website since your content is not available on your site itself.

An integrated version of blogging software means that articles and software used to manage them are all set up live on your own website. Your site will increase due to the blog being hosted there and the new visitors that are attracted by that content. It also helps to increase your siteӳ rankings with search engines and helps to make your business seem professional and credible.

When setting up a blog to use in your marketing plans consider your options carefully. There are number of ways you can go with blogs but be sure to use the one that is right for you. Consider your needs and take some time to research your options before making a final selection.