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If you are like me, then every post you make on Steemit is important in it’s own right. You spend time preparing in your head how the post will form, you maybe take photographs or find suitable images to match it. You create your post and hope it will do well, and then finally submit it and wait for the response. We all long for upvotes, comments, appreciation for the hard work - and often our expectations are not met and we get maybe a handful of upvotes and the odd comment.

I have already covered the varied and amazing upvote bot’s we can pay SBD to get upvotes. But their are also free services from external sites that will give us extra upvotes, or curation rewards, without having to spend any extra SBD just a little time and effort.

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The first external site we can use is https://steemfollower.com/?r=158 and as the name suggests we can gain extra followers for out Steemit account - but even better we can get extra upvotes for our most recent post. 

When you link to https://steemfollower.com/?r=158 it will use Steemconnect to link your steemit account - this is entirely safe and used by many services - it authorises SteemFollower to perform actions for you but does not let it control or do things on your account without your approval.

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Once connected, the first thing we can do is click the Exchange tab at the top of the web page and use Follow Exchange. Here we can see a list of the users of the site and choose to follow them. You can follow upto 30 users per day, and every follow you do shows your own account to be potentially followed to others. Every follow you make is also replicated on Steemit - so your follow count on the website will increase accordingly. It is important to follow interesting posters you find through SteemFollower because this will give you more potential to gain more followers on SteemFollower - but of course also on Steemit as well so you get a double win.

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Second job is to click the Exchange tab and then the Upvote Exchange - it is beneficial for this to work well that you are following users with the first tab. For the upvote exchange you can upvote a maximum of 15 posts - but for this they do have a minimum of 5 posts per day. I do not know what happens if you do not meet the minimum of 5 upvotes per day because I always exceed it - if you are hungry for upvotes then the few minutes each day going through the lists costs nothing and every upvote you give Potentially gives you one back. Note I say potentially - this is not a guaranteed service. Every upvote you give displays your latest steemit post for others to CHOOSE to upvote - whether it is upvoted or not depends on the quality and interest the post provides. So you could upvote 15 posts in a day and get only a few upvotes back if the post did not appeal to other users. So the more upvotes you give on steemfollower.com the more chance you have of gaining upvotes on Steemit.com - but your post has to be interesting enough to encourage the other users to upvote you.

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By using https://steemfollower.com/?r=158 you can increase your Steemit followers, find new and interesting people to follow you. You can also find new and interesting posts to upvote, and your own post will clearly show to many more people then it would do on Steemit.com giving you extra upvote opportunity - and the vote weight remains on the user so you could get a massive upvote value from a whale if you are lucky - I have had a few of my posts get multiple dollar upvotes from this service so the potential is really there.

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https://steemfollower.com/?r=158 is the brainchild and hard work of @mahdiyari  so following him and upvoting his posts is a kind courtesy.

Look out for my future posts where I look at other external sites, and Steemit based services that will give your posts the rewards they deserve.

If you enjoyed my post don’t forget to leave an Upvote, feel free to comment on what you liked or where I can do better even. Follow @c0ff33a for regular and varied posts, photography, my weekly VLOG, posts on coffee roasting and brewing - just follow and see.

JoinSteamfollower and get upvotes in return for upvotes
https://steemfollower.com/?r=158
It’s free, simple, easy to find new content to upvote and get your own content seen by more users and possibly upvoted.

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