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The best way to get an upvote from Steemit or any other Steem platforms is always: "produce exceptional quality contents".

However, due to the big number of users steem has now (over 1 million accounts and over 60-70k daily active users) it is expected that one's post will easily drown in the sea of endless spam and will not be seen by others, thus the disappointment among many newbies for their low payouts.

The surest way to get an upvote right now is through constant social interaction on steem platforms. Alongside producing quality contents, one must also do their very best to grow their follower base and find people who have the same interests as you. The more people you interact here on Steem, the more likely you are to get some support and visibility on the platform.

There are many ways you can get upvotes on Steemit. You can pay for a bot (Like @KiwiBot, my bot! ;) ) to give you upvoted and eventually an ROI. You can also check out people like @charitybot that give away many upvotes and SteemBasicIncome shares to small minnow bloggers. If you have large whales following you, you could post on Busy.org with the "busy" tag and get some upvoted from the @Busy.org steemit. You can also use services such as @musing and @utopian-io to get large upvoted. The better answers you give on Musing, the larger upvotes you get, and the more relevant and helpful your suggestion on Utopian is, the larger upvotes you get.

speaking honestly today steemit has become not much popular as it was earlier because there are lots of tricks and bots which are used and making the worst content also popular so now a days there are no such way you can make money without investment before when i was using this platform you will only get upvotes when your content is good but now as i see when someone spends some dollars he can easily take his reputation increased and make money on basis of his reputation so now its not proper to get upvotes because all are using upvotes from bots then they are not working now.

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