Not to shill my own post, but I actually wrote a post on avoiding frustration on here that speaks directly to your point. Nutshell, there is both a perspective that's needed and some skillful actions that are needed to break out of the newbie rut of no one seeing your content to provide traction for your work.

It can be done! I've been only here only 2 weeks and am already building a good foundation and starting to see profits. But I can see how it could have gone very differently had I not met up with certain information really early on. I've actually written too very long articles summing all that up, and I hope they are helpful to you if you care to read them. Keep the faith!