Good question.
What I suggest a newbie should do is do a lot of commenting and I mean high-quality commenting. Go and find users who talk about things you are interested in and leave genuine comments that provided added value. Do that a lot. At some point, people start noticing you. It also pays to post regularly. Successful bloggers are habitually read and engaged with by their audiences, which are the larger the more successful blogger we're talking about.
RE: What do you do when you don't get supported on hive??