Prior to the creation of bid bots and other forms of post promotion, any sufficiently good publication could be positioned in the trends section, as the majority of votes were manual and there were fewer users. However, in line with the evolution of the platform, and the massive reception of users, a greater difficulty has arisen as a result for good publications to receive the rewards they deserve. For this reason I decided to make this publication, to make known the best methods of promoting the content in Steemit.
Bid Bots:
Bid bots are Steemit accounts scheduled for voting in the indicated publications. More than a voting service, it is a business in which the owners sell the votes in the account in exchange for an equivalent payment in Steem coins.
Bid bots are mainly used to promote publications, the higher the value of the publication, the more attention you will receive, so you will have a better chance of receiving more additional votes, but this only works if the promoted publication is good enough to capture the attention of visitors, after all, everyone decides where, for whom and how to vote.
Using these voting services does not generate real income. According to the way the rewards of the publications are distributed, 25% is distributed to the curators, then half of the remaining value of the publications becomes Steem Power, and the other half is distributed in transferable currencies, STEEM and SBD with which the votes are purchased. Therefore, if we buy votes, we will end up receiving much less than what we initially paid, evidencing the business model implemented through this service, in fact, using bid bots repeatedly, generates losses if not used properly.
Direct promotion, and use of applications (Dtube, Dlive, Dsound):
Bid bots require investment of money and their use does not provide any guarantee of further rewards. Fortunately, there are well-established content curation projects such as 
In addition to the curation projects, it can be very beneficial to promote our content using applications such as
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, each one of them has different interfaces to Steemit, and shows only the content created through your application, therefore, there are much fewer publications, which translates into a greater likelihood of being viewed and receiving votes. In addition, each of these applications integrates a reward scheme for the most outstanding publications according to the number of visits, votes, or comments, which provides an additional bonus for greater visualization.
Work and a lot of dedication:
There is no doubt that good work is recognized sooner or later, therefore, concentrating efforts on creating something useful, valuable, or interesting on an ongoing basis, is more beneficial than dedicating oneself to promoting an incomplete idea, or a half-assed project. No doubt any project, content, or idea needs to be made known so that its authors can perceive the receptivity and evaluate its creation, but when the rewards depend on the quality of the work as in the Steem platform, it is more important to do a good job. In fact, the best form of promotion in Steemit is to create something that you are passionate about, so that you will be more willing to do it well, and like you, many other people will also appreciate it, and follow your content naturally. After that stage will come recognition and rewards, what happens next will depend directly on how much effort you continue to apply to content generation.
Even if we use all available methods of content promotion, there is no guarantee that we will get more rewards, as I mentioned earlier, only hard work and continued dedication will naturally bring the fruits of promotion and rewards. By following these parameters, and implementing additional content promotion methods, we only will be accelerating our imminent success.