It's always best to go First Class with your own Top Level Domain and Hosting.
You will never earn the big bucks using a blog, however blogs are good to
create back links send traffic to your own top level domain website. If the
blog gets any traffic.
Using Google Blogspot.com You have two options. Use Google's templates or make your own
template and let google host it.
In Google, you will have to convert the settings to classic. Find that under
template settings. Just remove the source code, then paste your template
source code in.
In order to use the classic with your own template. You will need to set up
with a website editor. It's Free.
The most popular website editor used is
Download NVU from Cnet
Download --> Save --> Open ---> Install
In the event you get a .dll error, go to file where you saved it and unzip the
folder.
You can make your own style template using the Table option in the website
editor. You can get tips and know how at Youtube. It's really quite easy and
fun once you get the hang of it.
You can get Free Templates at
Free-Templates.org
Select the template you like and copy the source code to mouse and paste in the website
editor once you have it installed and open. Click the source tab, paste the code in. Then you
are ready to add links, images, change the colors of your choice.
Other options for free blog sites are
weebly.com
web.com
The most common mistake work from home marketers do is try to hit it big
without spending money using 3rd party freeware.