Yes, you can. In fact, a good number of people earn a significant amount of money through blogging, but if you think its easy money, think again. It definitely takes a good amount of time, effort, and a lot of patience to get to a point where your blog is able to make money online.

How to get started? Well, you would need a blog account. You can choose one of the many websites offering to host them for free such as Wordpress and Blogger. Those 2 are actually the most popular choices for bloggers. You need not know a lot of HTML, although it would help, because they provide users with simple tools that you can easily understand and use to customize your blog and make it reflect your personality. It also helps to reflect what your blog is all about. Now that you have your blog, let's talk about getting started with earning and what you need to do.

First, you need to research and select your market. Among the many things you have to do is evaluating your current competition. You can go for the highly competitive markets or you can choose one that you are interested in. I recommend the latter, only because, it would make learning and writing about, much easier for you. Not to mention, more enjoyable than writing about something you don't really care about.

Familiarize yourself with the various things you can do with your blog. There are those things called widgets which you can use to add more personality and life to your blog. Blogger also offers widgets that directly link you to Google AdSense which would help monetize your blog and give you a source of revenue.

Now that you have your blog set-up, you need ads. You can join sites like adbrite where they allow potential clients (people who want to place ads on your blog) to contact you directly. You can let them know how much the blog space is as well as talk about other terms, including how long the ad would be up and so on.

Get content for your blog.

This is your blog's bread and butter. So make sure that you only get relevant content for your blog and as much as possible, update it on a daily basis. If you aren't comfortable with writing the articles yourself, you can hire a freelance writer and simply provide him or her with the topics you want to have on your blog. If you are familiar with how feeds work, you can also add those to your website for added content.

Study SEO because you would need to optimize your blog so that it would rank in the search engines such as Google. This can get a little complicated, but you're sure to get it in no time. Remember, this is an important aspect, if you really want to make money online.

Lastly, don't expect to become an overnight millionaire through your blog. It will require some time and a lot of effort from you for it to be able to start earning money. Just think about it, when your blog does start to bring in profit, all your hard work will be rewarded.