Gina is very good bot to stay notified about what goes on with your account on Hive. I use both GINA and FRIDAY bot.

Anyways about me, I don't really have a peculiar community I am so much involved in. I post randomly and meet up randomly and try to get different taste of content. True, having a peculiar community that you engage more and being noticed by people would definitely give you more followers.

Your advices are good but I don't really recommend often tagging people in the comments session. Instead what I do when I want to stay on track on an author's post is that I place them my favorites feed then I come back to hive in my free time to see and engage in their contents. I change my favorite feed very often, sometimes once in 3 months then I move to another set of guy to engage with. But now, I am not to really active on Hive to stay too engaged in comment but I make sure I engage when I am less busy.

To me, what really give followers is the quality you lay on the blockchain. what or how you add to help other either by contents or by contest or by engagement. These things are the main point/secrets of growing followers and which I have applied along the years. Also, remember to also check out on your followers even though you don't follow them back. I try go through my followers list and check for the active ones through their last post and support their contents even though they make not be my type.

This is a good post man. Right now, is just me taking 1hour of my time to engage, moving from different communities and supporting contents. Stay safe brother!