I think that Indexing content could help with these issues, and I'm sure the dev's will be working on this..
Steemit is still in Beta. It just needs some time to develop. I would also say that, Steemit.chat is a great place to promote your posts, and yourself by joining in with community discussion.
Whilst the environment is, how it is, users certainly need to go to more extraordinary lengths to be noticed. But it is more than possible!