You need to give value in your posts, something we all know.
But what is value?
For one value is something they can increase their knowledge-base with, for another something that makes them laugh, again another may value just food for thought.
The more desperately you'd try to find 'value', in your quest for more money on your articles, the less likely it is you'll be successful at it.
Chasing money has never worked and will never work and....
One suit doesn't fit all!
Once you realize it's all about sharing what you believe in, what you stand for, what you want the world to know....in a way that is authentically YOU, things may change faster than you could have ever anticipated.
Whatever it is you're passionate about, there ARE people out there, as well as fellow Steemians, who are waiting for it, dying to read it and read more from you.
So, just be you, at all times. :)