Blog or a website for my self help articles to make money?

[Jake]

Yea a blog is the easy way to do it, you won't have to learn web coding on a platform like Blogger or wordpress, if you can get tens of thousands you can earn Google Adsense ad revenue, it takes some years to reach the $100 min payout. There are also revenue sharing article sites, like squidoo and Hubpages, Hubpages does a 60/40 slie (your favor) from their Adsense revenue. They actually split clicks so you need your own ASdsense account in either case.

To look a bit more professional and protect your site ranking in case a host shuts you down you can use a custom domain name costing about $12/yr, Google's Blogger.com has no upgrade fees like many other "free" hosts. If they shut down or you want more control in the future you can relocate to a paid host, transferring your site name and with some effort reconstructing the site structure the search engines have learned to love.

If you list a free happy_bonny.blogspot.com address you would effectively have to restart search ranking from scratch on your new site address.