I feel your pain. I'm mostly getting similar RPM's at least on stories I have more than 1k views. Stories with views in the double and triple digits get 8 + . So it doesn't matter at all how many views I get. 10k I earn $ .10 to $ .80. 100 views I earn $ .10 to $ .80. Once in a blue moon something might go higher - I think for one article this month I had something like 19k views and earned about $6.