yup ... engage yourself, be dedicated but most important be real ! one thing I do to analyze my content is compare votes to views.... and if I do that I actually see that compared to views I am performing well ....I also started in june ... and I thought to myself if I have one post in my first 3 months here that makes 10 dollars then I am happy .... within only 6 days I had a trending post that earned 318 dollars when I saw it was trending .... 7 days later it had dropped somewhat to 175... but that was a lot more than I had thought possible .... I think if us newcomers (I guess we are booming in at the moment) try to focus on being real instead of being moneygreedy begging w'''''' we will integrate and grow here bit by bit step by step