[alain94040]

That's about right. There usually are bonuses based on traffic for instance, so you have an incentive to write something popular.

Generally speaking, writing is not a big money machine (unless you own the blog and sell it - it happens to one blog every other year, so don't count on it).

When I used to write (for print magazines), it paid 10 cents per character. But unlike a blog, you can only write a handful of articles per month, not per day.