Reputation plays an important role in steemit. Now, What Reputation means? Reputation is something that indicates How you are treated in the society, How much other members of the society loves you and appreciate your work. Similarly In steemit platform If we do good work, we are appreciated by the other members of the community. Well if any new user who joins the Steemit community his/her reputation starts from (25) and It increases as your work starts getting the appreciation, but you have to keep one thing in mind that your Reputation increases If someone who has a better Reputation than you and upvotes your post then your Reputation increases. So here I am going to talk about what steps you can follow in order to grow your Reputation fast on Steemit.
(1) Understand The Power Of Comment - Well this is something which needs to understand better. Try to comment on the post of the users who have a Good Reputation and Good voting power and try to make good comments so the author of that post would upvote your comment If the author upvotes your comment than your Reputation increases and also you earn some income from his upvote. You can check your exact Reputation score here www.steemd.com/username (put your username).
(2) Use Popular Tags - If you are posting something then try to use the most popular tags if your article talks something about it because sometimes you get upvotes from the bots or even some Reputed users who post in that particular tag. As a beginner, your first post must be about introducing yourself to the Steemit community and use the tag introduceyourself. It would definitely give a boost to your Reputation.
(3) Use Steem Bot Tracker - Steem Bot Tracker is the website introduced by @yabapmatt. Here you can get paid upvotes on your post from the users who have Good Reputation and Good voting power, So this would increase your Reputation and also your income and this also helps to get your content in Trending and Hot sections and once your content shows up in this section a lot of other members including Whales see your post and if they upvote you, your Reputation and income both get a boost.
So these are the things you can try to increase your Reputation as It indicates How much you are loved by the community and makes an impact on other users and this way you can increase the number of followers and upvotes.