Paying Bid Bots To Upvote You Own Posts

My Experiences From Testing Out Bid Bots For Upvotes

In my limited experience with purchasing upvotes from Bid Bot my personal outlook on the matter is as follows.

Using Steem Bot Tracker (https://steembottracker.com)

Using Steem Bot Tracker to bid on various automated voting bots seems to almost always result in a negative return on investment when considering a 25% curation reward for the people voting on your posts.

On Steem Bot Tracker you are able to choose from a large number of Bid bots that all power up to 100% voting power before making an upvote on each of the bidders blog posts.

However as you look down the list, especially as the count down approaches zero almost every Bot returns a negative return on investment, meaning the value of the vote that you receive tends to be less than what you paid for that upvote.

The Bid bots also leave a comment on your blog post indicating that you paid for that automated vote on your own post.

Better Alternatives (Smartsteem & Minnowbooster)

Smartsteem

Minnowbooster

Each of these services @smartsteem and @minnowbooster offer you the ability to simply transfer SBD direct to them and almost instantly receive an upvote back on your designated post.

Unlike Steem Bot Tracker bots these upvotes are made by other Steemit users who have sold their voting capabilities to Minnowbooster in return for a small fee so you don't get a comment back telling the world that you paid to upvote your own post, it's much more discrete.

You also get a guaranteed upvote ranging from about 2x-3x the value you paid for that upvote and there's ultimately no risk of negative return on investment like there is with Steem Bot Tracker.

Based on my limited use of all of these services I plan to stick with @smartsteem and @minnowbooster from here on out.