You should read my 6 part Guide to Getting Started with Steemit:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@shayne/beginners-guide-to-getting-started-with-steemit-by-shayne-or-or-introduction
What you're experienced is normal for a new account, so don't worry.
If you focus on building a following at first, and THEN producing good content regularly, you will be off to a good start :D
Thanks Shayne. I read your entire tutorial set and will likely use that one for showing to anyone interested in joining Steemit. It offers up a lot of information in a concise package without becoming overwhelming.
You mentioned in the tutorial that there is no limit to the number of daily posts. Someone else wrote that it is not a good idea to overwhelm your followers with too many posts. On Facebook, I have a 'friend' who posts a lot and I have considered dropping him because of all the posts he makes; it just takes too long to clear all those notifications from him. To be honest though, his posts are not adding any value to me because he posts in a language I can't read most of the time, so I'm not sure if that counts! Anyway, someone else posted that after 4 posts per day, each post after the 4th gets less earnings (a penalty) that grows with each additional post. Where they get this information from is unknown by me, but 4 posts seems like a reasonable number.