I now understand why my mentor’s vote is worthy thousands of dollars! Being among the most powerful votes on Steem platform, my mentor allocates 0.5 - 0.7% of the reward pool on a daily basis. Over the last one month, he rarely voted for himself. More than 90% of his voting power comes from a delegation where the sole objective of that delegation is to leave a positive effect! Following are nine ways via which you can reap maximally from your posts.

1. Quality

Quality is the greatest pillar in determining the success of your post. There is nothing that can complement a post of poor quality. Before you desire that upvote, first ensure you have posted the best that comes from you!

2. Reaching Out To People

The audience that reads your posts is also as important as quality. Remember, quality work does not bring an automatic audience; hence without an adequate audience, any posts won’t succeed!

3. Titles & Thumbnails (Gateways to Your Posts)

We use titles and thumbnails to pursue as many people as possible to read our posts. Always ensure you give special attention to your titles! For instance, you can make them punchy, short and engaging to readers!

4. Share Your Posts

From quality to titles, if you are good to go, remember that not everyone who reads the posts votes. Hence, to ensure that you have enough votes even as you expect your posts to attract a huge number of voters, share your posts whenever possible!

5. Powerful Bid Bots

A portion of the most powerful votes consists of bid bots. That quantity represents a certain percentage of the reward pool within a certain period. Most bids appear to cause a net loss of bidders. On this, stats would be fascinating! You can use bid bots to put your posts on the trending page.

6. Understanding Bid Bots

If there is 100$ upvote from one individual bid on bid bot, that person gets a total of 75$ despite the number of times which they bid. Twenty-five percent is curation reward and goes to the bot. If another person votes twice the amount of the initial bidder, they will get two times the value of the leading bidder and so on.

7. Using Bid Bots

To reap maximally from your posts, you need to know how to use bid bots. You can learn more about the same from Steembottracker.com.

8. Words to Curators (Concerning Bid Bots)

Bid bots exist and it’s recommended to motivate talented authors to utilize them. If they don’t use them, “bid bots farmers” will end up applying them.

9. Steem's Specialized Platforms

Out of many powerful platforms that vote, only seven are specialized platforms. They allocate a certain reward pool, and you can solely acquire those votes by voting from the seven unique platforms below.

• https://utopian.io
• https://www.dlive.io
• https://d.tube
• https://dsound.audio
• https://dmania.lol
• https://esteem.ws
• https://zappl.com