If all you do is push it onto google index and no other marketing, it will take 1 or 2 years to get to 10 people a day. My blog has been going for more than 10 years and gets about 10 people a day at least consistently. There are a few pages that rank very well on the search engine and drive 99% of the traffic. Its seems that they value being the first one to write about something ALOT as that is the only thing I can see special about those high traffic pages. pretty much everything else gets zero.

First one in terms of I wrote about a very common error on K8s but I just happened to be using a bleeding edge version so I was the first to write about that specific error.

First one to write about an AWS feature because I found it in API by chance and it became GA weeks later (I guess they were waiting for the initial roll out to complete before posting Geoff's blog).