Q: It is true that you can make money blogging?
A: Yes

Q: And if so how does it work?
A: Depends. In my opinion, you should make blogs and websites, and host the blog on your website.

Why?

You’ll have complete ownership. After a while, you might want to sell it and move on to other things.

How long does it take to get results? As long as it takes. If you pick a highly competitive topic like stocks or small business advice, you’ll find the competition too tough.

Plus, you’ll need to know what people are looking for by using keyword software. Use Wordtracker. It’s not free.

Using Google Adsense is the easiest way to make money.

An extra note: Look on ebay for websites people have stopped working on. Example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=004&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=140123817961&rd=1&rd=1

This website was a cash cow, generating $4000-$5000 a month. For some reason, the owner abandoned it for four years. Why, who knows… The key is to find something you like, maybe hire an expert, and build your empire.

Robert

P.S. Don’t get cheap. Time is money.
Also, watch out for the GRQ guys (get rich quick).

To make money, you use something like Google ads to do it. Blogger.com offers the best blogging service to use Google ads. Use your Google account to log on to blogger.com make your blog, and there is an easy widget that will integrate Google Ads into the blog.

Once you do that, make posts and try to write original work. This will help make your blog relevant in web searches. Don’t count on making a lot of money. But if you get a good readership, the Google ads will do all the work. It will take words from your blog post to make relevant ads to what people are reading about. Then they maybe interested in click on the ad.

Don’t quite your day job, but if you have something interesting to write about, you should do it. Maybe you can make a little money writing about something you like. With site like Blogger.com there is no cash investment to get the blog up and running. Just your time and hard work.

So when you ask "Can someone make a living out of blogging?" then the true answer is, even if very difficult, it’s possible. One can earn a living, and one can earn big money too. But why one limit the scenario to blogging, most professions and careers present the same picture, more or less.

Now let I give a preview of the earning potential of a blog:

If your idea is to earn by showing ads from ad programs like Adsense, Kontera, Adbrite etc. then your earnings will depend on the number of clicks you manage to get on your displayed ads. On an average, if your blog content is good, means if the content shows good context ads, and if you have 300 blog visitors then you will have 2-6 clicks on your ads. Studies show ads on websites have a click ratio of around 2 percent. Thus for every 100 visitors one can expect to get 2 clicks on ads. Or in other words, out of 100 visitors to a blog, only 2 visitors click on an ad. This translates into, 1 or 1.2 dollars a day for a 300 visitor a day blog.

If your idea is to earn revenue by selling products through affiliate links; or sell your own products/services, then again, the earnings will depend on your blog traffic. And the chances of a visitor going for a buy, is again around 2 percent.

Hope I managed to have my say, coherently. Thnx