What detector are you using?
And exactly what kind of sites are you hunting?
Gold can be anywhere but it is definitely not everywhere.
I have found 35 pieces in a little over 6 years, sometimes in the oddest places.
I haven't found any in awhile but i haven't been hunting a lot of different sites either...just a few over and over.
The more sites you hunt the higher your chances go.
I found one of the best ways to find gold is to try to find and hunt some higher percentage areas where it can be found.
I hunt mostly parks but if there is a volleyball court in any of them I concentrate on the perimeter hard.
Doubly so if I come across any basketball courts.
I have found over a dozen rings around these things because that is where players make piles of their coats, shirts and other things and put their jewelry in those piles too...then then sometimes they forgot they did and leave it there or drop it on paths to their car.
I also don't dig every piece of trash to find that stuff either, maybe about 20% of the tabs, can slaw, foil and other junk I come across that are solid signals that don't jump much.
This is because all the gold I found acted solid...so far, really jumpy stuff is usually trash for me so I just avoid digging most of it and go after the higher percentage solid ones.
This hobby is just a big numbers game to me.
I could miss gold this way, some may be way jumpier than I have ever experienced to this point due to all kinds of reasons but I have found that stuff surrounded by heavy trash, heavy iron, in great soil and mineralized dirt so i don't worry about it much because my track record is good.
Some will tell you avoid digging in trash filled sites but that bull...the trashiest sites are where the most people hung out and that is where I have found most of my gold targets...without digging every blasted signal I came across either.
Also what are you digging?
Many assume most gold comes in at only nickels or tabs but that is not true.
I have found a lot in foil and 5 large class rings in lower zinc, also.
Gold is a numbers game but learn your detector well, learn how gold behaves in all sections compared to trash targets on your tool if you can plus pick some good sites to look for it.
Also gather up all the luck you can, it helps.