Hi, I actually don't have a lot of experience using auto voting but the faq on the hive auto voting site offers some help. In general, it's a good idea to check out the curation trails, which are groups of people who all upvote the same content (and usually each other) - to boost certain types of content. There are many curation trails listed in hive.vote. Curation payouts have changed in the latest version of Hive so that they are maybe a bit simpler than previously - as long as you vote in the first 24 hours of a post being made, you should get as much payout from curation as is possible for you.