Curating Content. used to avoid, but now i'm having second thoughts

[TylerAbernethy]

It's really hitting me now, because content curating is extremely common in a lot of other forms of media.

I always avoided it because I didn't know the extent of any negatives that I might see from the search engines (duplicate content).

Does anybody else curate content for their blogs?

The main problem that I am having is that I just don't have enough time to publish the amount of content that I need.

Outsourcing is the best alternative, and quite frankly, unless your high school English teacher needs extra money, it really isn't a very good one.

Basically, i'm looking at content curating as a really good way to publish a lot of content, on more topics, a lot easier.

What extent do you consider reasonable?

How do you go about creating your content?

What would you say is the easiest way to create content efficiently?

[EricaMcGillivray]

It depends what kind of curation you want to do with how Google will treat it.

Are you creating a link list? Are you showing a quick blurb with your opinion? Are you re-publishing the article?

For the first two, you're creating somewhat original content, and I wouldn't worry too much. (Though make sure to add your opinion on the second option.) On the third one, you can use rel=canonical to get around duplicate content.