I was curious, so I looked into this question myself.
Then today, someone asked me:
"I am here for less than a month and doing my best to write valuable and interesting content. But I have some problems with visibility. It happens that blog posts are sometimes seen by 10 or 20 people and that discourages me."
Of course, starting out, we all feel that way. To some degree, I still do, so I started to research what will make a difference, why, and how to go about it. (Not that I have fully implemented these things in my own posts yet, still working on that!)
1 - Post Mon - Thurs only!
Let's face it, most people are busy on weekends, and they want time to themselves on Fri to see friends, etc.
Your best chances of being read, are to post 4 days a week, when people are probably most receptive, for so many reasons, I won't go into it. Let's just say, that's what the stats show. (I will not cite references, they don't all agree, but this was my take away from reading several articles about the subject.)
2 - Post 9am - 2pm if you are on West Coast - PST Time Zone
Because you would like to see some on the EST time zone read your work, posting as early as possible makes sense, if you live in CA, like me. Post before people on EST are going to bed, and preferably several hours before...
ONE BIG THING - most Steemians are in USA right now!
Post when they are awake, if you live in JP, KR, RU, etc.
3 - Post regularly
It's going to be important to be known as a poster.
Not a re-steamer.
Not a commentator,
but a regular poster.
People will come to expect your work is good, and look forward to reading it, but only if you write well thought out, clean subject matter.
4 - Use the right tags
- I won't repeat myself, I posted about this today, see links below.
5 - Link back to your other work
Link to your other recent posts:
How to purchase STEEM using USD:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@surfyogi/how-to-buy-bitcoins-using-usd-without-going-through-coinbase
How I got a 60 reputation on Steemit in 2 months:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@surfyogi/how-i-got-a-reputation-of-60-in-2-months-no-steemit