Yes, it is certainly possible to make money blogging, but it definitely won't be an instant money maker. I usually tell people that it will take about 1.5 years before you will begin to see a bit of money from your blog if you blog consistently during that time and you do a lot of promotion of it.
It is one of the more difficult ways to make money and will take a lot of hours with a very little return for those hours until 2+ years down the line. It's also important to note that a successful blog these days is 75% promotion and only 25% of what you write (although what you write has to be top quality as well or the promotion won't work).
If you have a passion for something and you would be writing about it for no money anyway, then it makes sense to monetize (if you also don't mind spending most of your free time promoting it), but to blog with the main goal of making money doesn't make much sense as there are a lot less risky ways to make more money for less time and energy spent.
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