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RE: ❓Answering Common Questions: I'm getting frustrated...Are my Expectations too high? 🙍
thank you for your posts. They are helping me get through this. I've felt a few of these thoughts that you've listed. I do understand how it works because of you and a few others. I do get frustrated because I'm trying to raise awareness about my journey with invisible disabilities to create a better future. Steemit has been wonderful and so have you. I know it's slow starting and I wish, like many others, that I could just snap my fingers and my message would catch on. That's not really reality though. I appreciate you and the steemit communit. thank you for your help.
You're very welcome! I'm glad to have been helpful. :)
I can admit I've been there myself, those times where I felt like I was putting in so much time for which the returns just didn't seem to be cutting it for me. But I can also say that with some time, work and a little luck things can pick up. Before I had started here last year, I hadn't written for at least 10 years, not been a very social person (especially on line) and my closest experience with crypto was hearing about bitcoin. Lol
If you want, we can find a time to do a little one on one work to see what we do to try and pick things up for you.
that sounds great Thank you for the offer. I would love to do that. I keep writing these very personal posts and I get great feedback. I just have to keep trying. :)
I'm exhausted this evening. Even though I'm not quite able to spend as much time as I'd like right now, a couple of things came to mind that you may try in your posts.
First I wanted to say you have some VERY powerful stuff with strong writing. So I really don't think you're issue is the content itself...you've got that down pretty well. All these tips are more with marketing and/or readability.
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It didn't seem your story included the military, so I tried to find something ptsd more civilian, but they didn't come up quickly and I've got limited time tonight. If you do a google image search, click tools and set usage rights to labeled for reuse...everything it shows is safe from copyright concerns.
Try tweaking your title. Personally I try to go as short as I can. So my first though was something like PTSD: Life After Death or Life, Death and PTSD. It could also be something emphasizing your struggle, what you've learned, etc. We've got about 3 seconds to get someone to click on your post, so a title has to grab people, so focus on writing titles around the key buzz words that pertain to your post.
Remember that in list view, the first sentence (which includes headings) is shown along with the title and thumbnail pic. So if you start the first paragraph with " My PTSD began back in '02." I think it would help grab people.
Try to break up text when that long. This can be done with a heading and/or page divider where applicable...ideally every 3ish paragraphs. Using headings and bolding important words/points also help to let people follow while just scrolling down.
The life and health tags you have are great. You might try working in a psychology and/or story tag in for some of the others. These have a bit more traffic on them.
These are just some quicker things you can try out to see if they help. Remember that your content and writing is really strong! Now it's just a matter of getting more eyes on it. :)
While it can seem cheesy, you might try something like 5 things I've learned from ptsd or some sort of 5 things... post.
Wow, fantastic advice and instructions. Thank you. I have tried to post a few pics in text before and when I do the box where the pic usually is blank like there's supposed to be a pic but there isn't. It's just an empty box. Of course when you click on the blog it totally works but it doesn't show up in the preview. Thank you also for your guidance. My posts sometimes start out with a little different intention and I start writing and it takes me on a similar but different path and I just go with it. I should redo the titles and first sentences. Thank you again. I really appreciate you and your help.
I'm happy to help out.
It's definitely way easier with strong content. :)
How are you putting the photo in? Copy/paste image, upload from your computer, link from a hosting site (like imgur)?
You might just try swapping methods, resave the file as a different image type (jpg, png, etc), or a different image hosting site.
I've had that happen before. Changing stuff fixed it. Upside is that it will fix the thumbnail for you. In steemit.chat just paste post link along with image link of the first post image.