Is it possible to start a personal blog with little or no money?

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You can in few minutes start a blog for free from http://blogger.com, but if you are willing to use it in business purpose you will encounter some obstacles from these websites, or any other service where they host your blog.

For example, you cannot use advertisement on the blog and your domain name will look something like this http://www.yourname.blogspot.com

Alternately you can set a blog ( downloaded software from http://wordPress.org ) and that way you can have self hosted blog and have a full control of it. Software is free, but in this case you need to pay for hosting. That is what I advice you to do. On the beginning there's more work than on blogger.com or wordpress.com, but eventually you will have much advantages. And hosting you can find as little as 5$ month.

Earning money with blog is not easy, but if you have a good idea it's possible. The most important thing is to get traffic to your website. Once you have it, it's easy to monetize with advertising or selling products (you can partner with someone if you don't have your own). This traffic thing doesn't come overnight.

One more reason why is good to have WordPress software is because you can additionally optimize it for search engines with easy to install WordPress plugins (like "All in one SEO plugin" and similar).
If you are beginner use video tutorials to help you with this - http://www.web2whizzing.com/create-succe...rial/seo/. Actually its easy, but additional help is only a plus.