I just started focusing to rank up in this forum by contributing with full afford.
Paying your attention on ranking up will put you under a pressure. So you should not do this. Instead, simply improve yourself, and try to lift your goals (with your posts', thread's quality) up as much as possible day-by-day. Ranking up will be a consequence of your improvements. It is kinda achievement.
(4) Never mind of bounties, campaigns when you are noobs
Reasons:
- Campaigns are there, open then close, then others open and close, from time to time. You should never worry that you miss this chance, that chance, this campaign, that campaign, something like this.
It is the same as merits. Lots of users complain that merits are rare, I can not get merits due to it is rare. Nope, merits (more exactly, sMerits - sendable merits) are available, everywhere in the forum. There are so many merit sources, normal users, who have lots of sMerits readily to send out. They kept them partially due to quality posts are rare, not sMerits.
- Instead of paying too much attention, and time on hunting for bounties, especially bounties that have easy rules and joinable for low rank users; you should start learning, reading, and build up your accounts.
When you hit your finish lines, it's time for you to seriously think of joining bounties.
. In my opinion, bounties or signature campaigns got nothing to do with your rank development. Actually there are so many living proofs out here that ranked up (few got overflowing merits and just wait for the right amount of activity) despite of joining campaigns. Therefore, it is not the main cause if you noticed that you remain stucked on where you are because everything depends on how good you are. Quality of your post is the only basis, nothing more and nothing less. 
