The simple and foremost way to get more curation rewards is - by upvoting posts in the "NEW" section, which are atleast 30 minutes old, ARE REALLY LENGTHY, fall in the most popular tags, are of newbies with low reputation and WHICH HAVE A POSSIBILTY TO GET MANY HEAVY VOTES FROM WHALES OR @CURIE, after you have already upvoted the post.
With that lets say a new user probably has a vp of 10 or so and SP of 40 will he/she still get any curation reward from the above explanation even though his upvote did not add any reward to the post