Make Money on Steemit From Your First Day

Many people come here and write a blog, they put their heart into it, it makes 2 cents and they quit. These days unless your introduceyourself post is by a hot female you probably won't start off with a bang (this is going to be a super honest blog). That's just the way it is, don't cry, don't despair, this isn't an indication of how Steemit will be for you.

While you should do the intro blog with a picture and holding the obligatory sign, not cashing in on that is okay, it's normal, I can't remember what my intro made but it was discouraging. I hardly ever look at the introduceyourself posts these days.

It's All About The Comments

Now you wrote a blog it didn't make any money, so what do you do? It's easy: you comment on other people's blogs. The "New" section is pretty much useless. Go to Hot and go to Trending. Comment on those posts, and concentrate on accounts with a high reputation score, (60) or over is ideal. Now there are accounts with (50) rep or lower who still have large amounts of steem power, and therefore a large vote, but I have found your best bet is commenting on high reputation accounts. Also check out the other comments on the post, are they highly voted? And highly voted by the person who wrote the blog? Scroll over it and see. Also note that a post with 500 comments that is 4 days old is not a good one either, people forget about old posts and they run low on voting power. If you are an early comment you are more likely to get noticed.

Spam Is For Lunch Not For Comments

It should go without saying, but I will say it: Don't spam comment. Read the blog and make an intelligent comment on it's contents. Commenting "good information" or some other such generic bot type comment will probably get ignored. People have written comment bot scripts that say nice photo or nice art on all the posts in the photography or art sections, you really need to make a good comment and prove you are a real person. Comments also lead to solid friendships, the other day I wrote out a long comment on a post by a whale and he went and voted up my last three blogs with fat upvotes and followed me.

The price of steem went up today, my vote at full power is freaking 26 cents from last weeks 14 cents. That means whale votes went up quite substantially in the last few days. I almost feel like I am wasting time writing this blog because I should be commenting on whale posts. Commenting on steemit has never been better.

So now you spent three days commenting your little heart out, it's time to start planning for the future. Go look at the comments you have made. The ones that made money you should now subscribe to the user who voted for your comment. This will make your newsfeed full of blogs by people who pay commenters. When I started Steem I traded "follow for follow" and it's a terrible idea. My feed was full of posts with no value, I had to scroll past endless 2 cent posts with people who didn't have enough voter power to vote up my comments. It's not worth it just for another person to follow you. Make the people you follow a valuable list. It takes forever to scroll thru your list of people you follow to get rid of dead accounts, almost all successful accounts here have very high followers > people they follow ratio.

But Viraldrome What Do I Do With All This Money?

So now you got a few SBD from your commenting, I recommend buy a big fat vote with them. If you have two SBD and you pay for a buildawhale vote you get the money back and profit. You can just cash out SBD, those 2 SBD are worth 20 bucks plus depending on when you read this. If you just want to make money on Steemit feel free to trade out the SBD for Litecoin/ETH/Rippple. Some people just do this, and its easy money. But if you buy whale votes your rep score goes up fast and your steem power goes up and you move up in the world of Steemit. If you can get a high whale vote fast you can get on the trending page which will bring in more votes, hopefully. And always remember if you bought a big vote for a shitblog you may not benefit. You can't escape the fact your blog needs to be quality. Anyone can take a bunch of good pictures and make a great blog even if your language skills aren't good.

Now there are many dozen off Steem sites like discord and voting sites where people have success. You will eventually probably have to do this if you want to get above a certain level. I've been stuck at same mid 50s rep for a while so I am really only giving you beginners advice. My next guide will cover some of those topics and curation, but for now I'm going to comment! Upvotes are nice but show me you learned something in comment section below

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