What is best advice to get a post read and responded to?

[garyn]

I wrote my second post and in less than one day I am on page 16 which means this is a very active post. But I now feel I am in the abyss of the unread.   So how does one get anyone to respond.  Seem like you may have a window of 5 to 10 minutes and you are off the first page.  I guess there is always using the "Show unread posts since last visit' but there are a ton of post there also.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Trying to learn things by asking questions.