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[In this] video we’ll be covering the fun part of the program which is getting the content
onto your site. Now, your content will come in via what we call RSS feeds and will be
meshed together. Let me see if I can give you an example of what I mean by meshed together.
So, let’s have a look. Meshing content together, what do we mean? Bringing the content together
from multiple sources. It all revolves around Categories. Now, you’ll have categories
set up on your site. So you’ll be able to specify categories for all of the content.
So, for example let’s say that we have a whole site about animals. One category about
dogs, one category about cats. So you will have your own business site and your own categories
on that site. So all of the stories on dogs will be meshed together and all the stories
on cats will be meshed together. You won’t get this crossover which is brilliant. This
is how the meshing together of content works with the Constant Content (now, Content Curation)
Plugin.
So, let’s look at how some of this content is structured. A typical Google Alert has
snippets from different sources. So a Google Alert will have a story from Source 1, a story
from Source 2, a story from Source 3, and a little short snippet from each.
A typical RSS feed will have a whole story on a topic or it will have three or four stories,
each made up of one or two sentences from one source. So that RSS feed comes from one
source. It could be a new site or it could be a blog. It could be anywhere. But, a Google
Alert has the short snippets and a typical RSS feed has either one or two of those formats.
The Constant Content (now, Content Curation) meshing works like this. So it would take
a typical Google Alert and a typical RSS feed. If you’ve loaded those in together, you
can use just one or the other, but then it will bring them together. So, you’ll have
a post made up of content from both and then of course you can add a third Google Alert
or even a fourth Google Alert, etc. So you end up with one full story posted on your
site that has a paragraph from Source 1, paragraph 2 from source 2, paragraph 3 from source 3,
paragraph 4 from source 2, [and] links that you add. So you can add your own links into
the post and and you can also add additional content as well. So you end up with these
posts on your blog that’s in a curated style from all of these different sources with your
own content as well, showing here. You can add your own content. So this is coming in
from the RSS feeds and from the automation that you set up in Constant Content. So you
end up with lots of stories from lots of different sources plus the additional content that you
add to create that full post at the end.
And again it all comes back to categories. So we don’t end up with a mixture of the
categories. We have, for example, if you have your Cats Category set up, you have paragraph
1 from Cat Source 1, paragraph 2 from Cat Source 2, you own content from Cat Source
1. And then the dog stories are separated as
well. You get Paragraph 1 from Dog Source 1, Paragraph 2 from Dog Source 2, and your
own content from Dog Source 1. So again you end up with this one full story posted on
your site made up of lots of different sources of information curated together to provide
a better post.
Now it doesn’t end up getting mixed or muddled. Each one these paragraphs and sentences stays
separated so that it reads beautifully well and also the links coming back to the original
stories are there as well. So it might say something like, you know, “XYZ it happened
in the dog world blah-blah-blah. Click here to see more information on this story.”
So you get all of the keywords from the different sources and it brings those together in one
full completed post.