Hi, yes it is best to leave your own upvote if you want to encourage others to initially curate your post. This allows others to benefit from the post via the algorithm that defines curation. The Steemit algorithms have been update since I did this post however the overall principle still applies. It is up to you who you want to run your page. I curate my posts just inside 30 minutes.
Checkout Steemvoter.com if you want to set this curation up automatically. Allows 10 auto votes per day.
Thank you so much, I am signing up for it now. Very helpful!
Thanks again for putting this together even though I have yet to read the entire thing... however I have a question. One of my steemit posts is out ranking a blog post I wrote on my actual website, to the point that my website post basically does not exist in google rankings. The word on the street is that I cannot delete my steemit post... so then why should we be putting up posts from our websites if they are going to out rank them in the long run? Very disappointed about this.