One alternative to boost the value of posts is to use the services of bot, Steemit until now does not matter that, and so far more the birth of various bots in steemit who sell their services for users to get upvote.
Bots are programs that handle tasks faster than human capabilities. There is nothing controversial there but many bots in Steemit are designed to monitor accounts and vote on the money sent to them for this service.
Bots provide a legitimate service but you need to understand it before you start providing Steem or SBD. Most people only use it to make money on their posts but it's very hard to do unless you really know what happens after the claim rewards period goes into 7 days.
The step between sending the amount of Steem / SBD value to Bot with your claim reward?
The answer can be No and can also Balance and less likely to benefit from bot services.
Upvote value may increase and may also decrease depending on steam price in market that is fluctuating, but almost all claim reward value received is not balanced with the amount sent, and impressed more balance.
Someone sends 5 SBDs to a certain bot, he will get an upvote about 10.49 US, and 2 days later down the steam price to 9.50US at a glance you see this is profitable or loss?
You may learn, after you submit to the bot with the link posting you want to upvote by bot
please open steem.supply. Steem supply will show the value of claim reward is more real, there you will see when you have sent some SBD or STeem To bot you can immediately check how the value of your claim reward already listed there. Fortunately, loss or Balance?
The above example is the case where the upvote value is sent to the bot of 5 SBD and only get a claim reward of 2.799 US and get claim cla claim 0.776.
Having a lot of SP opportunities you can trade here, with the SP you can sit sweet without needing to make posts, you just need to create an Upvote bot, and wait for consumers to buy your upvote with a relatively balanced price, as explained above, that BOT creating an economic cycle and this is a whale business that wants to earn money in steemit, by selling upvote services from those with STeem Power.
The presumption is that you have created a blog post and will send a number of Steem or SBD to the bot and receive a voice worth more than you send right? Wrong. When we hear the bot's bid, we think that if you bid higher than the next person, you will win the voting vote or at least a higher portion of it. In theory it's true but it does not work that way. The problem is the user does not know the rules.
Let's go back to why bots exist. If you're really promoting good content, it should not matter if the vote gives you a fee. Think of it as a marketing expense. When we promote content on Facebook or Google, we understand that we spend money to promote but we do not expect a refund of that investment from Facebook and Google. We hope more eyeballs will see our content and grow the following things.
Same thing to Steemit. If you are a small fish and have few followers, who will see your content? Perhaps nothing is so important to get that content into a trend. And that's the bot that can help you do it.
If you spend some Steem or SBD to promote your post, you'll receive a sound from the bot and start trending. When members see you experience a trend, they'll notice it. If your content is good, they will choose you. If it is really good and members see the possibility of curation coming their way consistently, they will follow you. More followers mean more income and you're on the go.
So in that case priming your own pumps using bots seems to work but I suspect most people expect more from using bots. In ecosystems like the ones we have here people want an edge and they think if they send money to the bots they will benefit from an immediate transaction. This is where most of the confusion occurs, so you will feel disappointed with the performance of the bot.
As the above explanation that there are some bot performance that need to be used as a service to boost your content, and this is a list of bots that already exist in the list Steembottracker.
So consider your content to use bot services, although sometimes it should be willing to do this which is caused by factors not getting upvote or upvote that is not balanced with the quality of content and even quality content that does not receive upvote.