Yes, I would use more tags and it does take time. Frustration is just a part of trying to grow your page. There has been plenty of posts I have spent a hour-hours of time and just like you only a view or two. Maybe a couple upvotes. Even now with over 500 followers it hasn't increased my posts views by a large margin. That's because there are a lot of users that have inactive accounts or don't check steemit much. For me, I just try to keep my head down, post things that I like and interact. We are still early in steemit and compared to other social medias we are peanuts.