The first problem is that writing these good solid articles on any topic will not earn you many views. The only articles that typically get significant views are controversial and hyped with numerous engineered title keywords etc...

If you do engineer your articles for views (they explain how to do this) you can get a lot of views but you are basically pumping dribble out into the internet world looking for reactionary comments and views.

There is no doubt in my mind that Examiner.com deliberately cuts off your pay after you get a certain number of views. They don't let you count your own views (wonder why...) and as soon as I raised any questions about why this was happening (how does an article get 2000 views on day one, then with more tweets, more digs, and higher Google rankings get 90 percent fewer views the next day, then no views at all?)

This site is a true meat market of content. They want you to work your butt off and if you actually get some views they deliberately don't pay you. Read the fine print way down in your contract- they specifically say that they own your content, and they can choose what they want to pay you. This info is all right there so in a way they are not lying- they say explicitly that they don't have to pay you- but they sure do hide it well.