How To Start A Money-making Blog? - Beginner

If you are the beginner in blogging, you do not have to worry now. There are thousands of blogging tools that can help you start blogging just by a few simple clicks. You can use Blogger, Wordpress, Blogspirit, BlogEasy and etc. And, most of these blogging services are FREE. But, if you are beginner in blogging, I do advise you to use Blogger as your blogging tool because Blogger is owned by Google. And, the welknown advertising tool which has made thousands of bloggers becoming rich - “Adsense” is provided by Google. But, what is the linking here? The answer is easy because you can easily incorporate Adsense in your blog by using Blogger. The pros and cons of free blog-hosting:

Pros:

Low Cost - Most of the blogging services provided here are FREE. This means that you don’t have to give out any cent to make a money-making blog.
Easy To Set Up - You can set up your blog easily. Besides, there are thousands of templates to help you have your own design to your blog. You can also incorporate easily some advertising tool like Adsense if you are using blogging service like Blogger. Besides, sign-up for these blogging services is relatively easy.
Indexed Quickly - You don’t have to worry how to index your blog in famous search engine because many blogging service providers help you to index your blog in search engine once you sign up for them.
Cons:

Less Configurable - You may face difficulties when you want to add in plugins like newsletter subscription, and etc. to your blog. Somemore, you may find difficult if you want to set up your own design without using the provided templates.
Non-Upgradable Friendly - If you want to upgrade your blog by using webhosting service in future, you may find difficulties because it is very hard to transfer posts and comments from free bloghosting to your own new webhosting server.
Generic Domain Name - If you are using free bloghosting services, you may find that many of your blog domain name is under restriction which can only use domian name like www.xxx.blogger.com, www.xxx.wordpress.com. These types of domain names look very unprofessional. And, these domain names may also give a bad impression to your readers.
But, if you are serious in making money by blogging, I do advise you to find a webhosting company to host your blog. And, there are also many standalone blog platform like Wordpress, Movable Type, and etc. These are the pros and cons of using standalone blog platform:

Pros:

URL - You can use your own domain name which is easy to remember and looking more professional to your readers. And, by short and simple domain name, your readers will come back to your blog easily. And, your readers can also help you to promote your blog by mouth becaus your domain name is easy to remember.
Easy Configurable - I like to use standalone blog platform because there are many programmers write specially-made plugins for blog platform like WordPress and Movable Type. Each plugin serves different purpose. And, you will find them useful.
Own Design - You can configurate your own design for your own blog. By designing your own blog, you can easily impress your readers. And, your blog will also become more personal, unique, and attractive.
Cons:

Technical Problems - You may face a lots of technical problems if you are not very good in simple scripting like HTML, PHP or some other popular scripting languages. You will find difficulties when you want to set up your own design or maybe add certain plugins to your blog.
High Cost - You won’t have free hosting here. You have to pay for your hosting and this may cost you a lot if there are more and more visitors to your website.(More visitors normally bring more revenue to you. So, you don’t have to worry here. ) Besides, you also have to pay for your own domain name.

Hosting Problems - You may find that there are many webhosting services facing downtime even though many webhosting service providers claim that they have 99% uptime. Try to do a simple calculation here. 365days X 99% = 361.35 days. This means that you will have 3.65 days when your server is down for maintence. Besides, you also have to do your own backup.( If you server are drown, all your posts and comments will be missing! T_T )

Actually, it is up to you to decide on which method you want to use to start your blogging. But, my advice here is better to start a free blogging first if you are new to the world of blogging~!