Thanks for the guide. i'm new here since a week and I hope it works. I put a lot of effort in my posts and it frustrates a bit to see that hardly anyone sees them while a post with some pics from internet and a few lines of text get a lot of attention.
It's hard to be picked up in the stream of messages. It's also caused to the way steemit shows it's content. When you have only the 'trending', 'new' and 'hot' menu you only see a rapid passing flow of content and your message has to be picked up and voted within minutes to get some attention.
I also saw some posts with only a few pictures, and a few lines with way more attention than some great articles I tumbled across. I'm still learning how this platform works. This article was very helpful. It's going to take a little getting used to but I like it so far. I'm sure I will get the hang of it and you will too.
Noticed this also. Some great content sometimes gets picked up, sometimes not. But those rubbish posts highly voted are just ... posts of those who have loaded friends, whale friends voting for whale friends regardless what the content is. This is a weakness of this platform.