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It's exciting to see it go up. The voters you see listed are in decreasing SP order, so you can see who helped the most. I can recommend getting into conversations here as it gets you noticed.

BTW I only get notified of direct replies to my comments, but found this one anyway.

@steevc here is a question for you... organic surf traffic does that push the earning up or is the earnings based purly on Steemit members?