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You have quite a few posts that you could post under life. It's a tag that sees a great deal of traffic and may help gain you some exposure. Posts like your dune away post for instance would do well there as it falls under that category. Your photos were brilliant as well so it was a great posts. When I started I labored for around two months and only had a couple hundred followers at the end of it. You do produce some pretty good posts so if you keep it up you will eventually take off. I have no doubt in this. You do seem to be doing really well on votes for a newcomer as well which is positive and you're working hard. Keep up the hard work and you will get there. :)

Heading over to your blog now to take a look. :)

As another thought, you seem to be very good at photos and you write well along side that. Have you ever looked at the walkwithme tag? It's basically where you take other steemers on a picture guided tour of where your at and write along side it. It's a great way to share your surroundings and describe where your at from your point of view. A thought?

i havent! ive started to go through some of the tags but yes, its really hard to know which ones are good. poetry doesnt seem to get a lot of traffic;p

thank you SO much - you are lovely for taking the time to respond all of this! <3

Not a problem. Loads of people helped me when I started and it's what made the whole Steemit game really enjoyable. You do have a decent writing ability so list under poetry of course, but add writing, life, and blog into tags as well. All of those are insanely high traffic tags that you'd flourish under. Given some of the great camera shots you did you could also try walk with me as well. If you scout down my blog you'll find a couple walk with me posts to see how they work. Another steemer who's great in that category is @lindsaybowes . She's always throwing up great posts in that category and provides a great example of how to go about it all. If at any point you need any further advice then don't hesitate to give me a shout.

amazing!! thanks so much and will definitely check out the walkwithme posts! this community is amazing when you make real connections with people. im not about the infinite "likes" element of social media and this seems to have the opportunity for transcending that :)

it takes time make lots of connections @itinerantartist. I have lots of followers and still many don't look at my posts. When you get "regulars" that you have engaged and connected with then you will start to see them repeatedly come view your page. Just keep making friends by engaging them and reaching out for new contacts by visiting others and making comments, and you will find it grows and grows as time moves on.

ps... I get a lot of new connections because I try to help the new ones, which I spend a lot of time on the newbies anyway. This initiative will help you do that, so if you decide to do it once a week, you will see you will make some friends (and fans) pretty fast. ;)

Resteemed the dune away post you put up. Hopefully this helps. If you have any questions then feel free to ask.

you are a gem <3 followed and sending hugs from the middle east <3