I feel you, I think this post still has more votes and has earned more dollars than all my previous blog posts combined... and I have written around 20 or so.
I'm not sure what the solution is... you need to get one of your posts noticed by a whale so it gets trending then lots of people will follow you and your odds of getting more posts trending go up significantly...
That is called building an audience and it usually takes years of hard dedicated, consistent and persistant work. But you can do it.