Yes, if you are waiting for the blog to be found by search engines you are jogging in place.
The people here that can reward you will read your posts, or have somebody read them for them, and decide based on criteria not always readily obvious whether to add you to their curation gang's list, or not.

Best to see this as an indelible backup for your work while being offered a chance to grow a savings account from it.
You can't beat hive as a savings account, few others can compete.

I put ~150usd in @doobetterhive 4 years ago and it has grown its value a little with a voting bot following a trail.

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