How To Get Free Upvotes and Make Money from Steem

This is really just a guide on how to get free upvotes and essentially free money on Steem. This might sounds like a super sensationalist topic for an article, but I'm gonna look at some real world examples that I found and please take note they are super random.

List:

• Talk to cleverbot and make sure to follow him and he will talk back. All replies seem to get a $0.01 upvote. It would seem that the owner is using this bot to train on some real world data for machine learning purposes. Here is a post about this bot:
  https://steemit.com/cleverbot/@ubg/i-just-figured-out-if-you-call-cleverbot-he-ll-have-a-conversation-with-you
  Here are some screenshots of our intimate conversations :). This is how you get cleverbot's attention. Follow him and add @cleverbot mention somewhere in your post.
  
  Now we get the conversation started see below:
  

There are many more bots that I've found, but I'm not sure how they work. See this list at the bottom of this page:

• Watch whales. See what are whales doing to earn income on Steem. For example the other day I looked over the steemd.com data for
  a whale and I saw that he was getting paid for voting for a witness:
  https://steemit.com/@isnochys

Another such witness is:
https://steemit.com/@steemhq.witness
See their website at:
https://www.steemhq.com/

So make sure to vote for these witnesses. I'm sure there are more like these two, feel free to fill me in if you know of more.

To vote for one of these:
https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemhq.witness&approve=1
https://steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=isnochys&approve=1

• Be nice to people and be a resourceful person. There is no guarantee that this will get you upvotes , but its worth a try.

• Curation rewards. Read up more on it. Have a look at the "Frontrun All the Bots" tool on steembottracker, which
  is a great tool for earning curation awards(just don't upvote crap please). See below:
  

  

You can also use sites like hackernews and reddit to
earn curation rewards, as long as you are good at searching for stuff. Here are two posts to help you learn about curation rewards:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simply-me/how-to-use-the-bidbots-wisely-to-ensure-positive-roi-for-all-it-s-all-in-your-hand-but-you-need-to-know-how
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simply-me/how-to-get-40-to-50-roi-on-steemit-fast-track-for-beginners

Let me know if that helps.

@cleverbot