First advice if you want to be read is to write about something that (many) people are interested in, that's mostly popular and trendy technologies for a tech blog. A good old rant on javascript or kubernetes is likely to do well and take over HN/reddit/twitter, whereas an article on clojure not so much.

I've got some nice articles about obscure tools that are doing really well, or really bad depending on perspective. First google results in their respective keywords. They get a whole 10 viewers a day sometimes! I thought this was disappointing but I came to accept that is everybody on the planet who cared about that subject.