There is always a learning curve to everything - but after that, things are easy. Building an audience on the Steemit platform is no exception. While reviewing the popular posts of Steemers with good content, I began to notice comments below their posts that referred to 'upvote' services.
At first I shrugged, took little notice, and went on about creating posts with detailed and helpful content.
But after a while I noticed newer Steemit profiles with 'thin' content were really growing their audience fast, gaining a great stream of comments AND they were earning significantly more revenue from their short and easy posts. I began to hear disgruntled comments from other Steemers who put a great deal of work into their posts - and see the same phenomenon with less meaty content providers growing much faster.
Rather than good content taking the show - could it be there are repeatable methods to make money on Steemit that require less skill and less authentic benefit for readers, simply by 'playing the game' the right way?
If so - are there tutorials on how to use Upvote Bots for best effect?
the only way to make money on Steemit is to get up votes from a select few whales that have significant financial influence on the network - and that if you are not part of this clique, you stand very little chance of making much money.
You'll see that I spend quite some time purposefully and transparently [replying] to other people's posts. This is like networking really, and it creates opportunity for conversation and ultimately, relationship building happens as a result.
spot on. interaction with commenters is essential. Comments build active followers which in long term can create good results.
I had a friend that started out with me on Steemit and noticed that once he passed me in SP, he stopped interacting with me and now only chases Whales. It's a toe-sucking charm offensive that is very obvious to me. Everything he does is about himself and what "you" can do for him.
for what it's worth, what social media platform DOESN'T have the Whales problem? It's a huge problem on Twitter, plagues Facebook even ranking on GOOGLE generally involves getting authority sites to link to your web site
And after all the valuable conversation below his post,
As a result of his instructions, I plan to send some money to some bots to promote this posts. Bots usually accept SBD but some take Steem as well.
He emphasizes:
...when your are sending to the bots be sure you are sending to their wallet address. Most Good Up Vote Bots Should Display This In Their Description/Bio. The memo text field of the transfer wizard is where you place the link to your post you want up voted.
How much should you spend on an upvote bot? Will you gain more benefit than you invest?
Some of the smaller upvote bots only charge like 0.100 so you can get 10 up votes for a buck... Usually I double my SBD ......USUALLY But Not Always! It really depends on how much voting power the bot has left.
Before sending money to the Upvote Bots you find,
His Steemit Up VoteBots List is a little dated, but a good place to start exploring.
A great resource was posted recently by 
It's not just a list of Upvote bots he has found - bot owners can list their services and configure their listing to specify a link to the rules / terms of service for their bot.
My virtual friend 
Most importantly, Michel recently posted 'How I Use Voting Bots', where he teaches about the "Bid-Based Voting Bots" section of SteemBotTracker Website. I had to read this post several times, while checking back and forth between the tutorial and the site, in order to get a grasp on the specifics.
There are good times and less favorable times to select each bot, and even a better time of the day for paying an Upvote Bot. Be sure to check out his article to learn more on how to use upvote bots for the best effect.
Before I start paying for upvotes - I'm thinking of it something like 'activation energy' to get the process rolling, and once I have an established following - then perhaps I will not need to pay for advertising.
The reason I use bots is to get more visibility, not profit.
One of the best gems of information Michel reveals is that he invests 20 SBD and splits that between four or five different bots - and expects a thirty day return on his investment.
