By Lingospot. Republished from the corporate blog.

Good SEO is particularly important for content curation sites—you want people to be able to find the content that you’ve curated. When you take the necessary steps to optimize your SEO, you make it easier for people to find your site and the content you worked so hard to curate. Consider implementing some of the following steps to reach a larger audience, attract your target audience and rank higher in search results.

1. The first step in preparing for Search Engine Optimization is brainstorming for keywords to attract your target audience—what will they be searching for that will lead them to the content on your site? Think about your subject matter and what terms people might use when they are looking for the information provided on your site.

2. Once you’ve come up with your top keywords, feature them throughout your site. When search engines crawl your page they will pick up on them. The more instances of your keywords, the higher you can rank for them in search results. So when you curate or create new content, be sure to include the keywords for which you’d like to rank and use those keywords in the search parameters for your curated content.

3. You’ll want to include your keywords in the following places (on each page of your site) to ensure optimal ranking: alt text, heading tags, page title, meta description, meta keywords, page content, internal links to other pages on your site featuring this keyword, website URL, images (tags and titles).

4. Be active in the community of your industry/subject of focus and engage people online via blogs and social media to build inbound links to your site, using your keyword as the anchor text for your links when you leave a comment or post information online.

5. Organization/navigation: organize your content and your site in an easy to follow, user-friendly layout with good navigation and a site map.

For more SEO tips and instruction, please see this article. In addition, using content curation software can help simplify your efforts—you can read more about that here.

About Lingospot Inc

Lingospot was founded in Los Angeles, CA in late 2006 with the vision of intelligently using technology to help the modern online editor be more responsive to a changing and more demanding environment. During the last five years we have had the good fortune to work with some of the most interesting, cutting edge and demanding online publishers. These customers have provided us with a tremendous amount of constructive guidance and have helped us continuously refine our products to best meet their needs. We are grateful for this input and continue to solicit their feedback.

Today our products are used by some of the world's largest and most prestigious online publishers and content aggregators, as well as aggressive and rising smaller niche publishers. We have kept our team small and take pride in the excellent customer service and responsiveness that we are able to show our customers.

Nikos Iatropoulos, Co-Founder & CEO

www.lingospot.com