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Curation Traffic Theme: Anybody Experience With This WP Theme?

by Isaan
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Hi,

I'm studying more about content curation for some time and I'm wondering if some of you have experience with the Curation Traffic Theme.

I've seen the instructional videos available before buying and these are looking great.

I have some other content curation tools that I use on my blogs now, but I want to know a little bit more about the overall Curation Traffic Theme.

Can I easily switch from my current themes to the Current Curation Theme without getting too much troubles?

Are the Curation Training Video good?

Do you want to share more about this theme here?


Thanks A Lot,

Isaan
#curation #experience #theme #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author scottscanlon
    Isaan,

    I'm interested to hear any feedback from people who have our theme... I thought I would answer a few questions though.

    The current version of the theme uses custom post types, we are changing that in the next month because it was really the wrong way to implement it. So that might cause some minor issues in moving from theme to theme. Although we are building a tool to take the data and transfer it over to standard posts. I mention that because that is the only thing limiting or causing a minor issue when you change themes.

    On the training, we are actually sitting down this week and adding a few more training elements. We see a few changes and opportunities in the curation area that are starting to develop. The training we have is focused on getting up and running with curation and creating what we call "listening posts" for a market and a niche.

    The focus of our Curation Taffic is really what I consider short form curation. Meaning if your on an article say at Techcrunch and you want to share that story. We suggest that you share it with commentary on a platform that you control. Our theme makes this process simple. I call this short form because it's one single source and your typically just adding commentary around that one topic.

    The other side is long form curation, kind of like what Storify puts together. There you are building a post typically around a topic and your pulling from multiple sources to build a post. I think both have their uses, so far the best tool I've used for this type of curation is PageOne Curator, which I think is coming out shortly. I bought it on the WSO deal awhile ago.

    The end goal for us is to create a wordpress platform that makes curation pretty much push button simple and blurs the line between creation/curation that I think most content producers really want.

    Once again hope you don't mind I interjected myself here and please if anybody has feedback or questions it would be great to hear them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Isaan
      Hi Scottscanlon,

      Thanks for your quick reply.

      Two weeks ago I started a WordPress Amazon product review site in a particular niche. I want to change this site to your Curation Traffic Theme.

      I want to create many product review posts and many articles (my own as well as curated) to constantly add new content.

      Is this possible with your theme to create common posts (as usual in all themes) as well as curated posts?

      I would like to order your theme in the beginning of next week. Do you think I'm then able to switch my site to your theme? Or do you think it's better to wait until you have fixed some issues regarding this?

      Now I'm using Instant Content Curator Pro, also bought here in the forum as a WSO. It's good software. Here they teach you to add a snippet of the original post and comment on it into the post itself before as wel as after the snippet.

      Is it possible in your theme to curate this way. I mean, can I post a curation manually if I would like?

      Sorry if I'm not 100% clear in this, but it's all new stuff for me.

      Hope you want to answer my questions here again and I'm looking forward to work with your theme.

      Thanks,

      Isaan

      Originally Posted by scottscanlon View Post

      Isaan,

      I'm interested to hear any feedback from people who have our theme... I thought I would answer a few questions though.

      The current version of the theme uses custom post types, we are changing that in the next month because it was really the wrong way to implement it. So that might cause some minor issues in moving from theme to theme. Although we are building a tool to take the data and transfer it over to standard posts. I mention that because that is the only thing limiting or causing a minor issue when you change themes.

      On the training, we are actually sitting down this week and adding a few more training elements. We see a few changes and opportunities in the curation area that are starting to develop. The training we have is focused on getting up and running with curation and creating what we call "listening posts" for a market and a niche.

      The focus of our Curation Taffic is really what I consider short form curation. Meaning if your on an article say at Techcrunch and you want to share that story. We suggest that you share it with commentary on a platform that you control. Our theme makes this process simple. I call this short form because it's one single source and your typically just adding commentary around that one topic.

      The other side is long form curation, kind of like what Storify puts together. There you are building a post typically around a topic and your pulling from multiple sources to build a post. I think both have their uses, so far the best tool I've used for this type of curation is PageOne Curator, which I think is coming out shortly. I bought it on the WSO deal awhile ago.

      The end goal for us is to create a wordpress platform that makes curation pretty much push button simple and blurs the line between creation/curation that I think most content producers really want.

      Once again hope you don't mind I interjected myself here and please if anybody has feedback or questions it would be great to hear them.
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      • Profile picture of the author scottscanlon
        Originally Posted by Isaan View Post

        Hi Scottscanlon,

        Thanks for your quick reply.

        Two weeks ago I started a WordPress Amazon product review site in a particular niche. I want to change this site to your Curation Traffic Theme....

        Isaan
        Isaan,

        Sorry it took me a few days to get back, been a long grind so we took a few days off from everything. On your product review site, that would be possible, if you DM me the link I can take a look at it and make sure there isn't a problem at all with migrating to our theme.

        We were using custom post types but we changed that in a version that's going to be released. The main reason why is quite a few plugins use the post content and aren't designed to see content in custom post types.

        We have really good support so if you do have any issues we are on it right away.

        As far as curation goes, we make sure that every piece of content is attributed. It's similar to CCPro but we do it a little differently as it's all hosted with your Wordpress dashboard. I do suggest that you add commentary but some curations we have we seldom add commentary and they do good. we seldom if ever add commentary and that does well for us.

        You can also post manually if you would like, with our theme we really just provide a way to easily get content into a post and provide pretty extensive layout/customization features.

        Once again any other questions you can DM me or ask away, I hope I answered all you had above.
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    • Profile picture of the author smb111
      'The end goal for us is to create a wordpress platform that makes curation pretty much push button simple and blurs the line between creation/curation that I think most content producers really want.'

      Hey Scott, I would be extremely interested in this.

      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author candoit2
    It is a little early for me to comment on Curration Traffic as I just went through the training videos, but RE: your question about the training...it is very well done and easy to follow.

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  • Profile picture of the author eibhlin
    I wasn't familiar with the theme until I saw this post.

    (Generally, people with "curation" products avoid me like the plague... with good reason. I'm pretty outspoken on the topic.)

    To me, the example in the sales video looks like a pretty good option. I can't speak about the the training or how the website software looks from the dashboard side of things, but -- at a quick glance -- the design looks like it beats silly "curation" plugins, hands down.

    Whether or not you need a specialized theme depends on the kind of curation you're planning to do. For many people, a regular blog is fine. Curation is more about the content than about the format, per se.

    Good curated content will attract visitors, and they'll tell their friends about your site as a one-stop resource for news in your niche. Good curated content is hand-selected and screened, and it's truly the best news and information in your niche. (Bad, automated, "curated" content will fail about as badly as any other autoblog-based site. Now and then, someone strikes gold with a site like that, but most people won't. Real curation can't be automated.)

    The quality of your content is the #1 thing to focus on, when building a curated site. Much of your traffic may come from the long-tail keywords in your articles. So, you can get by with any blog design, as long as it has visual appeal for your visitors.

    However, if you're expecting visitors (especially returning visitors) to visit your homepage and scan the topics, you'll choose a design like the Curation Traffic Theme. Or, if you're using WordPress, many free, magazine-style themes can be a good choice.

    Many startup decisions regarding curation will be based on your goals for the site, and whether you're working with more-time-than-money, or vice versa.

    Though I can't speak as an expert on the theme and training you're asking about, I hope my insights are useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author tinytot11
    I would like to here from anyone that has tried the theme. Don't want to spend $97 without hearing from someone who has tried it. Post some blog links so I can see.

    Thanks
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