@patricia-redsicker I have one successful weekly post that is just a curation of 25 top posts from the week in blogging, business, personal development, SEO, and social media because those are the topics my readers are interested in.  

I think for the most part, when people come to your blog, they really want to read your insight into your area of expertise plus your suggestions on what is great content in that niche.  My posting frequency is (on good weeks) 2 – 3 posts per week with my own content (or a guest blogger) and 1 that is curation.  

That said, curation / list posts can be huge traffic generators.  On some sites I contribute to, I usually do a curation post one out of every ten posts.  

Thanks @Kristi and @Brankica

That’s a great idea – I’ve actually read your Fetching Friday posts @Kristi and I know a few other people doing the same thing. Like you, I blog 3 times a week with one of them being curated. 

I’ve yet to try doing a round up of posts like both of you are doing. Do you find that you spend a lot of time doing research to figure out where the best articles are?

@Brankica – do weekend posts work well for you? I have not had much success blogging in the weekend. Any tips to improve readership?

Ha ha, I was dumb enough to type a whole comment and then saw the @ in the right corner. When you hover it says Mention @user. So I clicked. And it took me to the profile. Lost a loooong comment. But you learn something new all the time ahhaha

As far as the weekend goes, I am satisfied with the Saturday round up. Sometimes it takes people two or three days to get around to see it but overall it is pretty good. I think it would be even better if I actually spent some time promoting it and informing people they are on the list of the great posts. I do that every 10th round up, lol, which is like every 5 months

I don’t have time to read curated posts of content that’s easy to find all over the place. So I’d also ask whether your audience easily finds the information you want to share.

In some industries it’s hard work, or you need “insider” connections. And in those cases you can probably increase the frequency of sharing curated content… because you’re delivering extra value that’s hard to find elsewhere.

@brankicaunderwood I agree curated content saves readers time. 

As a publisher of curated content, I’d want to make sure that I was actually saving my readers time and providing value they couldn’t easily get elsewhere.  If everyone is providing the same information in curated posts, I’d question the long term value. 

Readers can be fickle. If they’ve already seen the same content, curated or not, will they continue to be a loyal reader of your curated content? Or will they go to the latest curator or source of content?  That’s why I said that sometimes it depends what else is out there   Too much curated content in some industries and you could lose your audience.  And in other industries there may be great opportunities in doing the curation work that’s not being done, to provide extra value to readers.

@cindy-king you have a really great point here.

I’ve been thinking multiple times to curate content on my blog, but realistically I will end up with something what @kristi-hines has and just as you said, no one will come to read mine over hers. Maybe only my biggest fans.

So, what I need to do and everyone else who is thinking of curating content needs to do is finding a unique way of doing it and bring something new to the table.

@brankicaunderwood They changed it to now to where, when you click on the @ username in the top right corner, it will put a mention in the reply box.  Sorry you lost your comment before though.  :(

@eugenoprea  I found this site and listened to a free webinar tonight via Jeff Mills.  They have a free or a pro sign up with a minimal feel  I must say I learned a lot and now curating make sense to me.    

http://curationsoft.com/

@kristi-hines yay, it works