How much money do you need to create a blog?

[Kane]

If you are new to blogging and have never created a self hosted blog, do you know how much money you actually need to create a blog? Well, let's assume that you do everything, including blog set up, content writing, and SEO, what would be the cost? Well, you need to spend money on a domain and hosting. You can use wordpress for your blog which is free. If you choose shared hosting and a dot com domain, your first year cost could be around $30.