Yes, we can all even earn by just upvoting the content of the people. This is called curator's rewards. As we all know that the curators reward is around 25% of the total rewards. We can try to earn more money if we upvote within 30 minutes of the post and no other has even liked the post.
This is a tricky topic which many people have not understood till now.
I will not explain in detail. I will just give you a brief summary of the curation rewards as far as what i know.
- Try to make sure that if you believe that any fresh content is going to trend on steemit, then upvote it as soon as possible. This is because if you will upvote it earlier, then you have better chances of earning high rewards.
Try to upvote with your 100% voting power. It is because if the article comes in trending, then you will be rewarded as per the voting power which you gave earlier to the post.
Whales will be your rivals in this scenario because they will be voting with high voting power as compared to new users and they will take maximum of the share. To defeat these whales, it is necessary that you upvote the content way before they upvote.