[jgrahamc]

So, I suspect the reason Gruber etc. get that kind of money is that they have a very large number of readers (because of their content) and that there's a power law at work and that your blog is worth next-to-nothing.

To give you some figures from jgc.org:

On May 13, 2010 I added a link to every blog post taking readers to Amazon.com to buy my book. Since then I have had 2,699,126 page views and 14,191 clicks on the link resulting in total money to me of $560.59.

So three years at 75,000 page views a month worked out to $15 a month.

Gruber is getting 5 million page views a month (66x jgc.org) and getting $37,000 (2,500x jgc.org).

Yes, I could probably monetize jgc.org better, but what I'd really need is page views.