Jay Venka and Joshua Zamora, experienced bloggers all, studied the SEO characteristics of blogs and found that fresh content is one of the major factors. Let your content get stale, and your rankings will drop, which results in lower traffic and lower profits. They have created the Blog Fresh Power WordPress plugin to solve this problem. This plugin refreshes old posts (you select how old) to give them new life. You can select which categories of posts you want updated, too. In the update process, it will do your choice of any or all of the following: • Add a snippet of relevant content from... [...]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Creating and Curating: How to Design a Brand that Acts as a Filter″. Baer says, “Ever feel crippled by indecision? Where should we eat? What should we do? Many times, this cycle is broken when somebody in the group suggests a familiar restaurant. It’s a situation marketing and psychology expert Robert Cialdini calls a “paralysis of analysis”:  times when the complexity of our world overwhelms our decision-making ability. When the”. Creating and Curating: How to Design a Brand that Acts as a Filter Jay Baer’s... [...]

Curated websites are one of the most effective ways to build a respected site in a short time. You select interesting, helpful content from other sites and publish a summary, along with your own comments. Curation Soft 3.0 has just been released by Peter Lenkefi and his partner Dylan Kingsbury. It was created for online publishing professionals, bloggers, news organizations and outsourcing firms who handle content development and marketing work for their clients. In fact, over 15,000 marketers are already using the earlier versions, and version 3.0 is better than ever. This new software works on... [...]

Alessandro Zamboni wants to hep you build a better curated site, without writing content, without paying freelancers and without auto-blogging softwatre. His new Content Curation Express opens the doors to the world of content curation in a way that even beginners can become curators. When you start curating content, your status in the eyes of your visitors will rise. You are seen as an expert in your field because you have your finger on the pulse. You have contact wit the experts, and you share with your readers what’s important. So they grow to trust you. In this printable guide, Zamboni... [...]

Whether you are just overrun with work, or are having a dry spell in your creativity or are wanting to enter a new niche that you are unfamiliar with, you may have a need to create content but not be able to do so through your own creativity. Fortunately, there are alternatives. The CopyBlogger.com site just posted an infographic that summarizes 22 ways you can create content in an emergency without being the origin of the content. Like this infographic? Get more content marketing tips from Copyblogger. This article was originally posted at 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content – Infographic Thanks... [...]

Sean Donahoe is trying to make content curation easier than it has ever been before. Today he releases Rapid Content Wizard . He promises (and the live demo shows you) that it is simple enough for you and for anyone on your team. IM NewsWatch is one of Donahoe’s partners for this launch. And to help our readers make the best use of Rapid Content Wizard, we have arranged 4 useful bonuses for you. You can check out our bonuses on this page we have set up, and then, at noon, click to see what Donahoe has to offer:: Rapid Content Wizard  [...]

Sean Donahoe has been busy. In February, he launched PingFresh, which sold over 3000 copies, including upgrades. In May, he launched Promote Me Pro, which also sold over 3000 copies, including upgrades. Donahoe is a major figure in our industry. His successful products speak volumes about his expertise. On July 15, Donahoe is launching his next blockbuster product, Rapid Content Wizard, game-changing software for the professional marketer. This powerful new desktop content creator does its work automatically: * Creates great new content with automatic scheduling * Serves up relevant new posts... [...]

Curation is adding the creative work by other people in your niche to your site in a way the: • Gives the author credit and keeps them happy • Impresses the search engines with your expertise in your niche • Builds your site with only a fraction of the work of creating content from scratch. Dilip Kumar has created Blog Curation Blueprint to show you how you can create an authority site in your niche using other people’s content. In this new training, you get all the information you need to create a curated blog in your niche: ■ Researching an choosing a niche ■ Uncovering... [...]

Ryan Deiss discovered that although famous bloggers may earn well, typical blogs don’t. In contrast, authority site publishers have much better earnings. That’s illustrated by The Huffington Post, for example, or The Drudge Report or Mashable.com. Building an authority site is about the same effort as writing a blog, but with the better pay-back it’s a much better investment of your time. Deiss has developed a course, a community and a service, and is offering them in a special sale, that IM NewsWatch just learned about, ending in 24 hours. To build interest in his program, he... [...]

A curated blog is a powerful marketing tool. You find useful information from all around the web and you summarize it, comment on it, and link to the original article. In essence, your curation saves your readers time. They don’t have to go hunting all around the web for helpful information on the topic of your blog. They come to you because you have done the hunting and sifting for them. The only issue with curation is the time it takes you to do the work. A tool that automates your work can make curation practical for you. If you have to do everything manually, you won’t get much... [...]