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When you are writing your posts you have the 3 options on how you want the steem to be distributed to you when you get payed out. You can either decline the payout, split it 50/50 into steem power and steem dollars, or power up 100% by having all your rewards paid out in steem power. I recommend utilising the 100% power up when you are first starting on steem to build up your steem power to get a more powerful vote; this will definitely help with tip 2 and bump your comments up higher. If you opt to go 50/50, the steem dollars you receive take 3.5 days to convert to steem for you to power up into steem power, so why not just put all of your rewards straight into steem power instantly rather than having to wait.