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Nowadays there are a lot of ways to earn upvotes and support in Steemit. Some of the easy ones that have only sort term success is by using bid-bots where basically you buy upvotes by paying in sbd or steem. Aside of that you can earn upvotes by taking part in some contests where you can also earn rewards like sbd.

This post is part of a giveaway-contest which i really like the topics of each week as well as the whole initiative and that's the main reasons i am taking part in. For more info just click here

What Is My Strategy To Earn Upvotes & Support

Let's take this from square one for the new people that might read this now or in the future. When i started out literally i knew none so i had to figure out like every new member ways that i could earn money. Money was the only factor that led me to join this platform but that soon changed. 

I quickly realized that with just memes or plagiarism posts i couldn't go anywhere and probably i would get flagged (the opposite of earning upvotes) so i had to think something else. What i quickly thought as i had no unique skills or scientific knowledge was to write about something i knew and liked. In other words i should find something to write that pleased me and i would just enjoy doing so. In case you want to know my first 30-40 posts where about reviews of anime-movie-series. I also tried to be a little more careful with my content and to make it as interesting as i could even though English isn't my first language.

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I managed to attract some people and earn their upvotes as well as managing to be included on author's of the day-week (i don't recall :P ) by @curie. The support of @curie was tremendous at my first steps as without it i probably would feel very disappointed by myself. In a way they gave me a reason to stay,continue and believe in this platform.

After achieving that, my whole mindset completely changed. As i was more and more active in steemit i quickly realized money is secondary and building relationships is primary. In other words i just tried to have fun and meet new people. The key here is interacting with them. To be more exact i just read their posts and make some meaningful comments. Some of them visited my profile and my posts and did the same and just like that boom 

Friendships were made!

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Later on i found out there was a Greek community so i when at a meetup and met with them. Relationships were formed and i earned their support and upvotes. The Greek community or @greek-trail (just for the story!) helped me out a lot. Finally, i tried to find other communities and become a member of them thus earning some upvotes and support. 

Note that it's not just as easy as it sounds. Being in a community doesn't mean you earn instant upvotes. You have to interact with the people there and make quality posts and still that's step one. If those people like your posts, and you follow the rules then you will probably earn their support,upvotes,friendship,respect and the same thing works vice versa.

Conclusion 

I will say it one more time because mostly everyone just reads the beginning and the end of the post! The keys to earn upvotes and support are:

Interaction 

Quality 

Content 

Topics That You Enjoy 

Joining Communities 

Making Friends

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