Boost Your Curation Reward: Follow The Right Authors!
This post is my view on how following the right authors is going to affect your upvoting performance.
Yesterday when I reviewed my curation rewards, I found something interesting. The curation rewards which I received can be classified into two groups. Group A are those having value 0.001 or nearby while Group B are those having value higher than 0.01. Most curation rewards belong to Group A. I checked further and found Group B came from those upvotes I made at the NEW tab when the posts were between 30 minute to one hour old. But not all upvotes done in this manner get a curation return. I noted that it was the author of the post that made a significant difference. So let us look at how to select the right author to follow.
Before upvoting, go to the author’s personal web page by typing http://steemit.com/@authorusername
and observe the following numbers: followers, posts, reputation, curation rewards and steem power in the wallet.
(1) No of followers:
The more followers the author has, the more upvotes he will get and likewise higher SBD value for his post. Study the SDB/Votes ratio for his posts in the past. It will give you a rough idea how much SBD value his followers will provide for his next post.
(2) No of posts:
This number indicates how frequent this author submits his post. Some authors submit only once a fortnight or a week. The wait will be too long and ideally authors who submit posts daily will be a better choice.
(3) Posting Reward Received:
Two figures we need to pay attention to are: daily average rewards and total rewards received in previous week. These figures give you an idea how much SBD value his post carries. Is it tenths of SBD or hundreds or even thousands of SBD? Upvoting while his post is still in the low SBD will produce great curation reward at the end.
(4) Steem power in his wallet:
If he is rich and generous, spend more time reading his post and engage in comments and discussion. Often, authors reward comments. You will be surprised that an upvote from a rich author will give you a couple of SP in return. A 1 SP reward is in equivalent of one thousand curation rewards of 0.001 SP.
(5) Reputation Number:
I guess by now everyone already know what this number means. Unless you really like his post and want to support him, avoid authors with low reputation.
In conclusion:
Selection of authors to follow will help you to improve your curation rewards. Group your rewards into two groups can help you to evaluate your upvoting performance. The more rewards falling into Group B means that you are on the right path and vice versa, you are missing out on posts from good authors.
Give my suggestion above a try and let me know your result. I wish you all the best in Steemit.
Be happy. Keep upvoting, posting and engaging in comments.
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