Thanks for the amazing comment @bashadow. Good tip on the tag. I didn't know that the first one is permanent, and that I should put the one that fits it the most in front.

You also raised a good point about the value we get back from bots! I managed to find the steam bot tracking website (here in case any other newbies want to know) from some posts on steemit, and it's quite obvious that not all bots give a profit. The bid-based ones especially give a highly variable amount of votes depending on how many bids they get, so I'll probably be staying away.

Thanks a lot @bashadow!