How to Prepare Useful Content in a Hurry!

Content creation is a difficult task. Especially when you need to prepare content on a short notice, it becomes really hell to plan content. Read on this blog post of mine to understand how to prepare useful content in a hurry.

Normally my readers are aware that I blog on everyday basis. Sometimes I did not even get the time to prepare content, and sometimes I need to submit the content in next 10 minutes time. Unfortunately those were the time when I need to scratch my head for what can I do now.

Normally writing a 300, or 400, or 500 words article or blog is not that difficult. But since I always prefer to publish blog of around thousand words, preparing a content of 1000+ words becomes difficult, especially in that short time period.

How to Prepare Useful Content in a Hurry! 

Let me tell you all a secret which I use for sometimes. This secret is known as Content Curation, and it is a process which always helps me to come up with a blog post, on a short notice.

What is Content Curation? 

Those who are into online marketing field must be aware of this term content curation, but those who are not, for them it must be sounding as an alien term.

It is a process in which you gather some information from different places, collect them and present them in a unique way which clearly makes it meaningful.

Although you might say that normally contents are being prepared on the same principal. Ideally true up to an extent, but not all the blogs or content are being curated, but some (rather most) of them are prepared originally only. Normally when I prepare a blog, I usually research so many websites, but when I start writing it I simply close all the sites and write it by my own language only.

On the other hand when you are performing content curation, you actually go through some sites and take most of the points from their only. You simply modify and tweak the content a bit and made it a unique and informative piece of content.

Precautions Required with Content Curation 

Curating a piece of content sounds easy, but then you should realize that it is not that much easy to fool Google that you have written this piece of content.

Here are some precautions which you needed to maintain while doing the content curation:

Content for Your Audience 

Make sure that you are preparing content for your audience only, not for the search engines. As I normally suggest that (as I suggested in this blog too The Best SEO Advice to Any Blog!) writing for your readers is the best tactics as far as SEO is concerned, hence if you are doing the content curation only you must need to maintain this thing.

Maintaining Content Duplicity 

We all know that duplicate content is dangerous for the SEO of your website. So if you are planning to do content curation only you should remember that you are not actually reposting the full content of some other page.

Rather it is a good idea to summarize a post or write a zest for some other post and give a link to the original post from your post.

Be Selective 

Whenever you plan to curate content make sure that you should always select the best things for your content. No matter what you need to do, but you should have to provide additional value to your readers so that they can get a quite useful post, and hence you need to be selective enough to select the best pieces of content for your content curation.

Put Your Input 

While it is true that you are adding different resources to a post, but then it is very much important that you should also include your own opinion about the topic and if possible place it at the top of the content only.

Write at least some words, like say 200+ words content for the summary and then give the summary of all those posts with a link to them below it.

Don’t Chose a Single Source 

While content curation is a short process of preparing informative content, but then you should understand that you should curate from a single source again and again. It won’t give any value to your piece of content.

So those were some of the tips which can clearly help you to prepare a quick piece of content or blog.

Secret of Doing Content Curation in a Perfect Manner 

The best thing which you can do to make your curated content as a perfect one?

The best advice which I can give you is to place link to the pages from where you are taking the content. It is quite a simple one, if you are preparing content on “Benefits of Reading” then you can simply collect 10 good posts on it, and you can link them with a paragraph written especially for those pages.

This way you are actually providing 10 different articles for your readers.

One more secret which I can give you is that always open the link of other web pages in a new tab or window only.

Concerns Related with Content Curation! 

Honestly it is a big issue of discussion that content curation is a type of duplicate content. So you might ask me that instead of wasting so much energy on creating an original article, we can also take some pieces of content and can club them and make them as a new piece of content. Similarly we can also come up with 5-10 videos and can write short-short descriptions about them and embed them in between and make some curated content.

Always remember that content curation is an easier process, but then it cannot be an alternate of original content. Though I am not saying that curated content are duplicate only, it is far better than doing the copy and paste type of work, but then still if you compare curated content with originally created content, obviously the later one will have an upper hand.

So the most essential concerns related with content curation is that though you are curating but still you need to make it a unique, valuable and informative post for your readers. I suppose this line will never have any issue for your post.

There might be a debate between Created Content and Curated Content, but then like I publish self created content every day, so there is no harm in sharing a curated content some time. By the way, the weekly post which I normally publish on each Sunday, summarizing all the posts of mine, is a type of curated content only 🙂

So now it is your turn to let me know about what do you think about content curation? Please do share what you think about this blog post of mine or about the curated content which I publish on a weekly basis. I will be waiting for your responses about all these things.