I don't think anyone gets rich off a website such as his like some people think. The site I write for had over six million page views last year and we surpassed that in late August this year. We have independent advertisers and google ads as well. I wrote a story this morning that took just over an hour to write/edit/publish/market(facebook/twitter) and I will make approx $4 on it, unless someone big picks it up and references it, then I might get about $10. Part of that is because it is baseball off-season but the show must go on.
I have posted news items or live game recaps that have paid well per time spent, but I have also written stories on Pirates history that have made about $.50 per hour spent writing it. I personally like the history articles better because it is something I enjoy more and I don't consider it wasted time.
I would've paid the site I write for(don't tell the owner) to let me publish this bio on Dots Miller because of the family relation to him. Every regular reader on this board could read this and I might get $2 from it in my next check so click away just to see the work put into it for reference purposes. I spent about three hours on it and that was coming into the story already well-armed with info on Dots.
http://blogs.piratesprospects.com/hi...r-dots-miller/