What if you could make money from you steemit account without hoping to make it to the hot and trending section of Steemit? This is what I am attempting with the SEO Casestudy of my pet account 
Day after day, I am working on improving the link profile of this account so that down the road I can be in a position to provide a service that people would be willing to pay for. The strategy I am thinking about is what I am outlining below.
Pre-Requisite Of This Monetization Strategy
The pre-requisite for this strategy is to
Have an account name that is relevant to your market
Have a domain with high authority
Have an account with a high page authority through SEO optimization
Thankfully, because we are blogging on Steemit.com, we have number 2 covered (which is usually the hardest thing to achieve). Number one and number three need you to be very clear about your target and to stick to it even if you don't get much rewards at the beginning.
Building Page Authority
At the beginning, you will have to produce your own content on a fairly consistent basis so that Google starts liking you for being an active blog. Then, building social media profiles with readership would be also a very very good thing to do, it will help you get links and also viewership for your content which in the end has a lot of value.
So What Is This Strategy?
I call it: Pay Me To Post Your Content On My Blog
Look at this fiver gig: https://www.fiverr.com/sureranker/do-travel-guest-post-on-upto-da90-travel-blog
Basically, they sell you the possibility of guest posting on a website that is niche relevant and that has high domain authority. Here are their guidelines:
Provide unique and quality article(s) 500+ words
Articles can contain 2 dofollow links to your site (I will add another link to an authority site)
Spun or duplicate content will not be accepted
I will add relevant videos/images to your post
Your travel guest post(s) will be permanent
You must provide your anchor text and your targeted URL
Topics should be related to: Travel, Tourism, Hotels, Car Rentals, Flights, Tours, Vacations, Rentals, Transport etc.
Pricing Strategy
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Benefits of this strategy
One of the hardest thing to do when you start a niche blog is to find a continuous supply of fresh content. Some people pay in order to have article creator or journalist write for them. When you start having multiple niche blogs, it becomes a problem.
Now, rather than paying people to write for you, they pay you to post their content on your website. Brilliant!
On top of that, it helps with the page authority of your blog.
Conclusion
It is easy to become dependent on Steemit payouts. But one thing that I've learned in my year blogging here is that payouts are highly volatile. You can be on the top of the world for a while only to fall out of favor. Diversifying your sources of income can only bring more stability to your enterprise in the long run.