Optimise your voting system by reading this article carefully!
11 days ago I voted at 100% (with a total of around 5,500 Steem Power behind my vote) for an article written by @jockey entitled:
Horse Racing - Corruption & Cruelty : An Insider's Perspective
I placed my vote 30 minutes after he published the article, at which point the pay-out was around $2
As you can see the article payed out a total of $27.48, which was split between author & curators.
So what did I make from my vote?
My 100% vote would have been worth around $0.80 at that time.
With this in mind, I scanned through my list of curation rewards to find the answer.
As you can see my reward was 1.861 Steem Power, which today equates to $2.80
So my actual earning from that vote was around $2.
Which is pretty good right? Though we must bear in mind that the value of Steem has risen a little since I placed that vote.
So, based on this information I can see that if I voted at 100% for 10 articles per day which were all in a similar situation to the one written by @jockey I would looking at $140 a week in curation rewards!
Check Steemit's explanation of how the voting percentage works:
What this says to me is that 10 well placed votes (per day) at 100% are much more effective than 100 votes (per day) for popular articles at a lower percentage.
This is Tactical Curation!
It is clear to me now that a vote at 100% for an article written by someone without too many regular upvoters is a much more effective vote than for someone who has many regular upvoters.
@jockey has 292 followers and received a total of 47 upvotes for this article, most of which came after I had placed my vote and resteemed him to my own group of 1400 followers.
Those of you who follow me will already know that I trained @jockey in the art of Steemit (because I knew that his life experience, interests and writing ability made him PERFECT for this platform) and have been supporting him 100% during his first month on the platform, so I am in a very good position now to benefit from his ongoing success.
Can you see how our willingness to help others comes back to us in spades?
I can!
And I love Steemit for that.
In Conclusion
When choosing the best people to vote for, keep in mind the following questions:
Are they receiving a low number of upvotes?
Are they receiving decent pay-out rewards?
Are the majority of these votes being placed after the 30min point?
If the answer to these questions are all yes, you have found the right person to vote for. Get your vote in at the 30min mark when your curation rewards are at 100%
Here is Steemit's explanation of the vote timing algorithm
Once you have placed your 100% vote at 30mins, then resteem the article to your own network, encouraging your network to do the same, spreading it to as many people as possible. If you're really keen you could even do some post promotion for them on steemit.chat and Discord!
The Curation Guild
You may be able to propose your selected article to the Curation Guild in Streemian if it fits the following guidelines
If the Curation Guild select your proposed article they will send you a reward of 10 Steem
and you will also receive your vote curation reward on top of this.
Making this situation a rather enjoyable one :)
Hope you learned something here.
Keep following for more!
