Please stop handing out "business cards" on people's blog posts.

Guess what guys, when someone posts a blog post and then you reply with,

"I'll give you my upvote.
Please vote for my post too."
[poops out a link]

...you're being incredibly disingenuous and impersonal (and bot-ish), and you're NOT going to get views on your totally unrelated post. All you've done is knock on that person's door, try to sell them something they don't want, and then throw a business card in their face (essentially littering on their door step) before running off without so much as learning that member's username, let alone even reading their post.

It's their post. You probably shouldn't try to make it yours.

If your content is to make any money, the public will let you know by voting for it.
If the person you're replying to is new here, then peddling your post around on their posts will actually do more to discourage that person from using Steemit at all. They'll feel like the place is overrun by bots and greedy members (of which there are plenty, don't get me wrong), and it won't feel like a very welcoming community at all, even though a huge majority of us are trying to make it that way.
In fact, I'm curious to know how many members have joined only to make one post, get that kind of result from it, and then say "Screw this, I'm out."

Think about your replies.

Think about how you would want to be replied to on your own posts. Talk to people the way you'd talk to them in real life, not as if you only see a dollar bill stuck to their foreheads. Relate to them, ask them questions.
BE A PERSON.

I can't say this enough - if you're here for the money, you're doing it wrong.
Yes, you can make money, but when you focus on it, you focus on the wrong thing.
When you focus on just the money, this place becomes a pressurizer, and after so long of only making pennies, eventually you'll crack and leave with not much besides disappointment.

Worrying about money when you come here is like worrying about whether or not there will be water at Sea World when you get there. Don't worry...it's there.

When Shamu goes to do the big jump & splash, how wet you get depends on where you're sitting. Where you're sitting will be determined by how well you contribute to the community, and that will be decided by the community itself. All the one-liner folks will be waaaay back in the high-rises, wishing they had a better view of the action.

Don't be that guy.