I have gone through various blogs and the ultimate key is patience. Initially very less people will even notice your blogs. I wrote 2 recently, 1 about my Steemit learning and another my experience in my professional world. I hardly had any visitors.
I put enough efforts in it, followed most of the guidelines. Its just that your blog doesn't reach enough audience initially.
Plus the generosity of people has reduced. People with good voting influence have become a lot more conservative now.