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I started adding ads to my YouTube videos exactly 4 years ago. During that time, my videos have received 301,400 views (just over 200 views a day). My channel has $675.37 during that time or about $2.20 for every 1,000 times my videos are viewed. There are many producers on YouTube getting this many views every few hours. Those "YouTubers" also can generate revenue from produce placement and other forms of sponsorship. A popular channel can generate a ton of revenue. My YouTube revenue is not much, but it is enough to cover my web hosting, and is a LOT more than I'm getting paid by any other social media platforms, who want you to pay THEM for the privilege of contributing content

I'll share with you my YouTube revenue in another post. You can use it for comparison purposes. Speaking about Facebook, check this out: On Saturday and Sunday I got a combined total of over 8,200 visitors from Facebook. The visitors looked at over 19,000 pages. In case you are wondering, that is a lot more than normal. My initial reaction was that this is bogus, but after looking at the data, it looks like the traffic is legit. The crazy thing is that I did not even use Facebook on Saturday and did not post a link until late Sunday. Plus July is historically the worst month of the year for traffic and Saturday is usually the worst day of the week. But this may be my best July ever for traffic. Something changed at Facebook. Saturdays surge in referral traffic from Facebook, and the increase in referral traffic over the first 1/2 of the year, took place despite me dramatically reducing my activity on the platform. I wonder if Facebook is showing popular content in an effort to boost internal engagement? I dunno, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts... @CDBurns, I meant to ask do you like the scrolling that I added to your Blog feed or do you prefer it to be static?

I go waaay back with the 1960s liberal, Gore Vidal, and in my world he was a brilliant, respected writer, a renaissance man with a cynical wit and an endearing quality of not taking himself too seriously. Gore was also an astute political pundit and I, along with great numbers of others, had no problem with his opinion of the caustic, racist, arch-conservative, William F. Buckley. And many other high-profile figures feuded with the volatile, erratic Norman Mahler as well as the malicious, capricious gossip-mongering, Truman Capote. They were all colorful controversial characters, typical of their and my era. Was Gore flawed? Of course. And I see little relevance to your including the opinion piece about him except to expose how much you have in common with him when it comes to old people and grudges. SMH In the overview which is something your pontificating seems oblivious to, the Existential and Relativism schools of thought imply that right and wrong should be proceeded by the phrase "as compared to what" and are really just words in a universe that has no rhyme or reason, - as opposed to the little cookie cutter world you're confined in. And in your permanent state of vacillation, you apparently don't find it inconsistent to inject the words negative and positive into your attempts to portray your views as being preferable to mine. (And where would you be without the words of others and the links to references and the quotes from google that hamper your ability to be an abstract thinker instead of a didactic pedant with a childish penchant for silly emoticons. (Quick! Trot out your favorite "ad hominem" accusation to soothe your vanity.) I'm all about the truth and seek it because it is the light. But I am also about the whole truth, not just how it is exemplified in the old fable about the 3 blind men who came in contact with an elephant, after which one described it as having rough skin, while the other said it had a trunk, and the last one insisted it possessed a little tail. Each one of their conclusion was truthful but not the whole truth because they could not see the elephant. The nature of truth and reality are among my favorite things to ponder, and are mind-boggling subjects which you, of all people, are not qualified to speak about. SMH I am not a unique person to those who don't surround themselves with ass-kissers who humor them and think like they do. Besides "bitch", there is another word to describe individuals like me. We have always been around to keep people grounded. The word is "polemicist". I am unapologetic for whom and what I am, and guess who doesn't give a fuck if this doesn't meet your approval? Go somewhere and sit down! LMAO.

@CDBurns, you can't argue with results, even if they appear counterintuitive. I'm still tweaking the web pages, but I have decided to call them "Enhanced Author Profiles." I'm still working on the pricing and features. Dr. Elizabeth Nunez is an author who uses her AALBC.com page as her primary web prescence: http://aalbc.com/authors/home.php?author_name=Elizabeth+Nunez I added an events calendar to your page. For authors with a bunch of events this is a cool feature. They can also manage their own calendars. I also added her press kit. I will probably add a slide-show of photos as well as a high resolution image for event organizers I think securing the domain is still a good idea because the underlying URL is a mouthful. It is just easier to say "elizabethnunez.com," but I will get rid of the masking so that the icon shows in the browser window I'm still thinking about the "tweet/facebook/boost." This is important because authors need help in effectively advertising their books. AALBC.com could be a part of a broader mix that might include, ad words, social media, Amazon, and other indie related sites with high traffic.