I have almost two years in here and got to the conclusion that what matters the most is your followers. If you have whales on auto vote than it doesn't matter at all what you post about and how much you worked for the post. One pic is enough. If you don't have people with SP around you than you can write 1000 words blogs and get no attention. I appreciate you though for encouraging people for blogging. This is what I like the most doing in here although I've tried the other way as well.