"I think the bots are broken,they dont pay off as good as when SBD's were a dollar. Any advise on that other than the bot tracker app?"

I think you're just seeing the result of heavy competition for them. I rarely get a bid in on a bot anymore that isn't negative ROI after accounting for curation. This is actually good in a way, as it makes it more difficult to use the bots for abuse, but the only way to make them regularly profitable now is write high enough quality content that the promotion pays for itself in upvotes from other users.