Currated Content

I’ll give you the basic run down of the steps and then go into some details on what I think is important to pay attention too.
#1 – Find blogs that do daily, weekly, or monthly “link roundups”. I’ll explain more about this in a minute.
#2 – Write a really kick-a$$ post on your own blog. Again, more in a minute.
#3 – Submit your content for the link roundups.
#4 – Profit!
That’s really it. Let me explain in a few details what you do.
“Link Roundups”
Link roundups are, basically, a blog post in which the blog owner finds unique content, videos, etc. and shares it with his audience. They list it as “links to good content” and a lot of the times they also comment on it. This is “curating” according to the definition above.
Here is how you find these blogs.
1. Go to Google.com
2. Use one of these search parameters
a. "link roundup" + (your niche)
b. “daily link roundup” + (your niche)
c. “weekly link roundup” + (your niche)
d. “monthly link roundup” + (your niche)
e. EXAMPLE: “link roundup” + marketing
f. EXAMPLE: “daily link roundup” + dog training
g. This is a starting point – there probably are other keywords you can use.
3. Once you find the blogs, look through their previous link lists. What kind of content have they accepted in the past? What content are they missing from this niche that could supplement well? Take this information and make notes of it. You are going to use it in a minute.
This will provide you with a list of blogs that accept links of useful information on a regular basis. (Key word here being “regular”)
Now, once you have your list of blogs and some basic info on the topics they have accepted as well as what is “missing” in their content, we need to write up a killer blog post or piece of content ourselves.
Killer Content
Now I could just say “write some good stuff” and leave you at that. But instead, I’m going to give you a nice bonus.
I’ll call this…
“How to Write Kick-A$$, Attention Grabbing Content!”
This is going to apply to just about any content you can give. Whether it be blog posts, articles for article sites or syndication, guest blog posting, or even info products.
When I write, I have three main rules. Well, more like “guidelines”... But anyway, I call this the “Rule of Threes”:
1. The content must be Entertaining.
2. The content must be able to be read in less than 20 minutes. (Ideally. It depends on the purpose of the content, but I’ll say most content needs to fall in this category, unless you are doing LARGE products)
3. They must feel like the content they are reading solves one problem really well. Ideally, they can see themselves doing it because it’s explained well enough and easy enough…gives them the “ah-ha” moment.
Most people who write don’t do any of these things. They kinda just “write” and are surprised when it doesn’t work out.
Now, if you want an example of what I’m talking about, look at this report.
I attempt, hopefully with some success, to fulfill all three of those things.
Now imagine if I gave this away for FREE on my website. The blog owner gets something cool to give away, and you get a POWERFUL link on a website and some traffic.
And all you did was write ONE post. No guest blogging. No writing and submitting articles. Easy backlink and easy traffic.
The final piece of this pie is getting the blog owner to post your link and comment on it.
This isn’t that difficult, however.