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I curious if this is done effectively.
There are programs out there called "Article Spinners" that allow you to grab an article and "spin it" into an article, with the same content, but written differently, by changing the arrangement of verbs, pronouns and other grammatical keys, to make it look like a different article, but they really suck and look like the crap you see in nonsense spam mail.
I would VERY STRONGLY - did you see the emphasis I am trying to get across - I VERY STRONGLY discourage anything that re-writes or harvests information and spins it into an article. If you can't do it yourself, ie, if it is NOT ORIGINAL content, then don't use it. If you need to quote a line from someone else, give them all the credit for it, with a line in subscript or italics, saying - source courtesy of Wikipedia.
Your integrity and credibility is what is at stake. Don't blow it by taking shortcuts. gather your own information and then summarise that in your own words.
I most certainly would not recommend spinners and such was NOT mentioned in my response nor implied. I use curation as a VERY VALID source of research material pretty much in the same way as a library would be used. The majority of scientific research and history books written today rely heavily on the research carried out by others
past.Every sports writer relies heavily on those experiences of others not least those who wrote the rule books as a few examples.
One does not copy these but use material as a basis for your own research and writing.
Dave I totally agree, thank you! Every newspaper is writing about the same news, and every sports writer comments on the same sports, but they don't copy each other's articles. And they certainly don't just re-spin someone else's article either. Research is going to cross the same lines, but it needs to be presented as YOUR OWN research, collaborating and enforcing previous research, re-affirming your investigation and own thesis on the subject. After all, to curate is to "rake together" so isn't that what research is all about, raking in the information that is relevant to your article?
There really is not a lot new under the sun, so pretty much everything you are going to write about has been written before. Gather the information and formulate it into your own words, from your own angle, with your 'own voice'. My point is that you need to make it your own, not just rewrite what someone else has written, but if you really have to use someone else's words, then QUOTE them exactly, giving them the credit due.
Actually I think if you do copy in the sense of "quote" someone else and highlight this fact it gives a higher rating to your own work as then you appear to me more trustworthy and knowledgeable as you are carrying out research on behalf of and for your audience.
Thanks Savant for highlighting
If you are talking about just copying articles direct from other sites and curating them on your own website then definitely not as your site will just be full of duplicate unoriginal content.
Unless you do want to get black-listed by Google, of course;)
However, I do make use of the various curation services to pool together information which I use as the source for my own content but I then re-write this and add in my own voice so to speak.
If the content is news type items then I may make a comment on my sites but I will then place a link from my site directly to the source, never copying the content onto my site.
I hope this helps and I have understood you correctly.
Dave
Here is some information you can review and make an informed decision.
http://www.thesaleslion.com/content-curation-for-businesses-waste/
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How good or bad is using curated content on our sites?
I curious if this is done effectively.
There are programs out there called "Article Spinners" that allow you to grab an article and "spin it" into an article, with the same content, but written differently, by changing the arrangement of verbs, pronouns and other grammatical keys, to make it look like a different article, but they really suck and look like the crap you see in nonsense spam mail.
I would VERY STRONGLY - did you see the emphasis I am trying to get across - I VERY STRONGLY discourage anything that re-writes or harvests information and spins it into an article. If you can't do it yourself, ie, if it is NOT ORIGINAL content, then don't use it. If you need to quote a line from someone else, give them all the credit for it, with a line in subscript or italics, saying - source courtesy of Wikipedia.
Your integrity and credibility is what is at stake. Don't blow it by taking shortcuts. gather your own information and then summarise that in your own words.
I most certainly would not recommend spinners and such was NOT mentioned in my response nor implied. I use curation as a VERY VALID source of research material pretty much in the same way as a library would be used. The majority of scientific research and history books written today rely heavily on the research carried out by others
past.Every sports writer relies heavily on those experiences of others not least those who wrote the rule books as a few examples.
One does not copy these but use material as a basis for your own research and writing.
Dave I totally agree, thank you! Every newspaper is writing about the same news, and every sports writer comments on the same sports, but they don't copy each other's articles. And they certainly don't just re-spin someone else's article either. Research is going to cross the same lines, but it needs to be presented as YOUR OWN research, collaborating and enforcing previous research, re-affirming your investigation and own thesis on the subject. After all, to curate is to "rake together" so isn't that what research is all about, raking in the information that is relevant to your article?
There really is not a lot new under the sun, so pretty much everything you are going to write about has been written before. Gather the information and formulate it into your own words, from your own angle, with your 'own voice'. My point is that you need to make it your own, not just rewrite what someone else has written, but if you really have to use someone else's words, then QUOTE them exactly, giving them the credit due.
Actually I think if you do copy in the sense of "quote" someone else and highlight this fact it gives a higher rating to your own work as then you appear to me more trustworthy and knowledgeable as you are carrying out research on behalf of and for your audience.
Thanks Savant for highlighting
If you are talking about just copying articles direct from other sites and curating them on your own website then definitely not as your site will just be full of duplicate unoriginal content.
Unless you do want to get black-listed by Google, of course;)
However, I do make use of the various curation services to pool together information which I use as the source for my own content but I then re-write this and add in my own voice so to speak.
If the content is news type items then I may make a comment on my sites but I will then place a link from my site directly to the source, never copying the content onto my site.
I hope this helps and I have understood you correctly.
Dave
Here is some information you can review and make an informed decision.
http://www.thesaleslion.com/content-curation-for-businesses-waste/
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When I go to my activity dashboard and click on not answered I have see not updates. Every has been the same for a long time. Why is this?
Hi Orivera! I've had this issue before, not sure if your issue is the same? Under activity, I had something other than Unanswered - Everyone selected and I was seeing no updates for the longest time. Hope this helps...
Is the a reason why my activity dashboard has not updated?
When I go to my activity dashboard and click on not answered I have see not updates. Every has been the same for a long time. Why is this?
Hi Orivera! I've had this issue before, not sure if your issue is the same? Under activity, I had something other than Unanswered - Everyone selected and I was seeing no updates for the longest time. Hope this helps...
I was accepted in some affiliate programs and when I create the links they are in javascript. How do I add these to my sites?
Hi.
There are a couple of ways - I would assume the instructions are to add the links within your site header.
If that is the case, go to:
Appearance -> Editor -> header.php
...and paste the code you're given just before the closing </head> tag.
If it is a link to an individual product (eg. an amazon product), then on your Page or Post, make sure you are on the Text tab of the editor - and paste the code you're given, where ever within your text, you would like the product link to appear.
I hope this helps, but if it prompts further questions, please post back.
Cheers, Mark
I would like to mention that javascript files slow down wesbsites. Bad for SEO. So, is there no other alternative ? You can ask them ofcourse. What program are you enrolled with?
You have to use script tags in your html.... If you are not code savvy, then dont even think of trying it yourself.
my page speed results from various sites are telling me to combine external javascripts noI have no idea what it is on about, please help?
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How do i add javascript to a wordpress site?
I was accepted in some affiliate programs and when I create the links they are in javascript. How do I add these to my sites?
Hi.
There are a couple of ways - I would assume the instructions are to add the links within your site header.
If that is the case, go to:
Appearance -> Editor -> header.php
...and paste the code you're given just before the closing </head> tag.
If it is a link to an individual product (eg. an amazon product), then on your Page or Post, make sure you are on the Text tab of the editor - and paste the code you're given, where ever within your text, you would like the product link to appear.
I hope this helps, but if it prompts further questions, please post back.
Cheers, Mark
I would like to mention that javascript files slow down wesbsites. Bad for SEO. So, is there no other alternative ? You can ask them ofcourse. What program are you enrolled with?
You have to use script tags in your html.... If you are not code savvy, then dont even think of trying it yourself.
my page speed results from various sites are telling me to combine external javascripts noI have no idea what it is on about, please help?
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Curation has it place, on your webwsite is not that place.