Is it useful to have a section of my site that re-posts from other sites?
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Guillaume Decugis
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This video dates back to mid-2012 but it explains a lot of what is still puzzling a lot of people including someone I was just discussing the subject at lunch today: in a world post-Panda/Penguin world, is content curation seen as good or bad by Google from an SEO point of view?
Some people mistakenly took the Google updates as detrimental to content curators which is at odds with the reality we observe on the Scoop.it platform alone where the share of search traffic to the whole platform has progressively risen to above 35%.
As Matt Cutts explains, content curation has nothing to do with automated aggregation like the one offered by shoot-and-forget type of services that you set up once and for all and that build content automatically for you.
Content Curation can not be fully automated and still add value as Matt Cutts explains very well giving example of great curation done by the New-York times or John Gruber's Daring Fireball who carefully selects and publish links by adding insights to them.
So key take-aways for curators:
1. Have a clear editorial line (aka a topic).
2. Don't be a robot. Select content that's relevant to your editorial line.
3. Add your own insights.
In two words: add value.
Big question and straight answer : How is content curation affected by Google's Panda and Penguin updates.
Guillaume Decugis offers a valuable perspective on curation, the impact of Google algorithm changes on SEO and side references of course to Matt Cutts. In a phrase: "Add value!"
Anytime Matt speaks about SEO we should listen. In this video he specifically discusses SEO and content creation. He recommends a separate website page for old blog posts. I assume Google can identify the old content as separate and, therefore, acceptable rather than someone trying to game the system by throwing up a bunch of old or curated content in hopes of improve search engine results on the back of other people's content.