CTPX - First Impressions & Walk-Thru

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CTPX is the new content discovery tool created by the CTP team. I have recently signed up and thought I would give you a walk-through of the tool and some of my first impressions.

Signing up is very easy, you can register with your email or with your Hive login. If you do want to check it out, feel free to use my link.

Once you are signed up, you are confronted by a pretty slick dashboard. I do not know what all the functions are yet, but have discovered the use of some of the important ones.

The program works similarly to the traffic exchanges, so by viewing content, you can also get yours viewed by other people. So far there has been a mix of content from landing page signups, websites with interesting products, and blog pages advertised.

The first thing you will want to do is to add your own website, blog, or page that you would like to advertise. You do that by clicking website from the menu and then adding a new site as shown above.

This then gives you the simple option of giving the URL of the page you want to share and a title for it. I have added in a landing page for my mailing list so far but I would also likely add my latest blog post to help increase the views.

Once entered, the system does a check of the URL and if everything is fine, it is approved.

Start Xploring

Next, you would want to return to the dashboard and click the start Xploring button. This would then allow you to start exploring content.

Once you start exploring content, there are a few things to be aware of that are not 100% clear. Firstly, there is a blue bar at the bottom and top that starts moving. This is like a timer for how long you need to view the content to count as a "hit".

Next, there is a form of captcha box that appears. To count the view, you need to match the shape on the left with one from the right. This is to prove you are human.

Some other options there are the little green head and shoulders figure. This is to take you back to the dashboard when you are finished. The blue square and arrow that I have highlighted above is something to click if you want to go directly to the website outside of CtpX.

Something to be aware of is that with the free account, you can earn views to your content with a 3:1 ratio. So every 3 sites that you view, will earn you 1 view of your content. You can increase this ratio if you buy a subscription.

This is counted in the XPLORE tokens that you earn, for each view you earn 0.33 XPLORE. You can also win CTP tokens in the hourly prize draws that are taking place. So far over 9k CTP has been distributed. To get a ticket, you need to view at least 10 pages in that hour. This could make it worth your while to split up any page views that you do to increase your chances of winning.

Whilst I was on, in the space of a couple of hours, the payouts were around 110 CTP tokens each, which would be nice to win.

I could not add any Ecency or Peakd pages to my websites, but other front ends seem to work like Ctptalk and Leofinance.

Gamification

There is also a gamification aspect built-in. Unlike a leaderboard that we saw in ListNerds, here we have levelling-up on different aspects of the platform. The more active you are, the faster that you can level up in different areas.

There are also the tasks that you can aim to complete to help you along your marketing journey.

Summary

Overall it is looking like a very slick product that could be useful to promote your content and also to discover new content. If you are interested to try it out, feel free to use my link.

Thanks for reading.


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I see its potential especially for attracting new users to Hive. Because although the site is not built on the blockchain, it forces you to have a wallet on Hive to cash your CTP. I think is a good move.

I think it could be a very useful tool to help onboard people to Hive too. !ALIVE

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Thank you for the walk through Steve! I appreciate it! I signed up a few days ago, it so far haven't really used it, as a fair bit was unclear! This post helped a lot, so thank you for that! It looks like a site with a lot of benefits and potential! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Absolutely! I found it quite useful indeed! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

I tried to log in with keychain but it did not work. Do I need to sign up with an email?

you can sign up with email and then link your hive account or you can register directly with your hive account.

Thanks will check it when I have some free time today

Yes
One needs an Email -_-

looks intresting thanks for sharing, sure I will try this out. have a great day and upcoming week.

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There is one question I would like to ask, I hope you don't mind 😅 anyway I am gonna ask.

is there any account I can delegate my ctp tokens to earn daily rewards for that, I have delegated my ctp tokens to @ctp-curator but the returns are not that good. I think you are very active in ctp I think you have an answer to this.

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yes no worries!

I haven't delegated any tribe tokens for some time, but I have heard good things about delegating to the lolztribe.

Here you can see in their latest report, the returns are 17% by delegating to @lolz.ctp. I think you are paid in LOL tokens though. Which for me would be ok.

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The option that I do, is to set my vote multiplier to 1,5 in LeoDex so that it uses my tribe votes effectively, even if I do not vote only 1 tribe.

thanks for sharing that looks great. But I would like to earn income in the tribe token 😅.
yes, I have seen this option of leodex a long ago (seems like I didn't understand that properly ). I am planning to make an alt account only that is related to a particular tribe what do you think?

ah, then it would not be suitable.😅

i see quite a few people make the alt accounts for their tribe token curation and it seems to be the best way to maximise returns. i guess you need to weigh up the effort*reward and see if it is worth it.

he hee I thought so, thaks for your help friend.
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Awesome I will start this now, thanks for sharing and happy Sunday

Good luck on your CTPX journey. Have a great Sunday. !ALIVE

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Urgh, I completely missed this post. Sorry man. But thanks so much for the in-depth look. Glad to hear you are enjoying it!

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No worries Jon, I know you have your hands full with the big launch. Thanks for checking it out now. Keep up the good work with CTPX! 😃

Why can't you add your hive/ecency/peakd pages?

I didnt find the reason for this out, it seems ctptalk, leofinance etc work, but those 2 dont.

Yeah, it looks like now the front-ends are going to compete ... I don't like that ... btw: wasn't there another site on Hive for content search/discovery?

I am not sure if they will compete or not.

btw: wasn't there another site on Hive for content search/discovery?

do you mean ListNerds?

No, something else, but I can't find it on Hive projects, you just surf on hive pages (from all front-ends) and you liked the content or not. Can't remember the site :(
Just remember that when I tested it, it doesn't show Ecency pages and I complain and they, later add all main front-ends...

ahh yes veews.io is the one you mean

Yeah, that's it.

Im not really using it as I have ecency though. Perhaps for newbies it is a good tool.

It has to do with how some site handle/allow frames.

CTPX displays its XPLORE sites with a frame, and places like Ecency and Peakd do not allow this, so they fail the checker.

All Hive Outpost sites seem to work though.

Well, veews.io is also content discovery site and it has frames also but all front-ends works well there...

I presume veews and ctpx are coded differently!

Yeah, probably. But that's not the reason to change this. Except if they do not want to change.

Great to know about this one.. had no idea when it launched... Thanks for sharing Buddy with this Guide made more easy to look into.

UI looks really Good and Glad these kind of project development is putting every possible effort to make user experience More better. Gonna try out!!!

Thanks for checking it out! Appreciate your feedback. !ALIVE

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Nice post - I was not aware of this coming out, so thanks for the summary - thats really handy !!!
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The Interface is looking great. Still i don't know how much helpful it will be for me. But there is nothing wrong to make a try.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for checking it out. I saw some people have been winning some CTP tokens there, but I didn't win yet myself. 😅 !PIZZA

I saw some people have been winning some CTP tokens there, but I didn't win yet myself.

All the best to you and I am hopeful that you will get CTP token very soon.
But honestly, Still I know nothing about that token😅 and its use case of it. I am learning everything little by little.

Thanks, we are all learning little by little. Good luck with your journey too. !ALIVE

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Thanks for giving brief overview I will surely check this out

Thanks for checking it out. !ALIVE

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Fantastic guide and overview of CTPX there Steve, and great to read your experience about it, thanks a lot for sharing and stay awesome.



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This is an interesting option. Is that design to promote ones personal website or our Hive Blog? Is that in a sense a type of curation page?

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