@clixmoney thanks for all the useful information and links. I am very new to Steemit and I try to write posts that interest me but I find that it is really hard to find people to upvote your posts. There are just so many posts that it gets lost easily. I thought maybe try following people who have similar interest but still very hard. I thought that maybe using bots (which btw doesn't seem to be a profit making strategy) to help boost the the post to trending but that also doesn't seem to work :(. I think my next post will be through busy.org to see if that helps.
Cheers!