So I want to start blogging..

This. Exactly.

If you're enthusiastic/passionate about that, it may be a great niche for you, and is a far better idea than what you've tried in the past.

You're keen on promoting ClickBank products, I think? So see what there is there on gardening (I think there's quite a bit). This will help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

And here are the essentials of promoting CB products: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

If affiliate marketing's your planned income-source, don't make the mistake of starting off without a list-building method in place right at the start: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

If you are looking for free methods, you can use Facebook and Twitter to market your blog. Get active in your niche and they traffic will come :-)

You may want to look at Blog Marketing Academy and Smart Passive Income.

Joe Mobley

Self-hosted WordPress is certainly one good option. Not a hosted one at wordpress.com (that would be contrary to their terms of service).

The frequency matters less than the traffic-attracting plan. (I update all my niche blogs only three times per month each and have built up a profitable business that way. I've never dreamed of updating daily.)

You need a traffic-generating plan.

I advise you strongly, especially if selling ClickBank or similar products, not to build a business that's dependent on Google for traffic.

There are hundreds and hundreds of threads in the forum discussing the question "How do I get traffic?". That's your starting-point, I think.

Personally, I'd advise you not to put too much of your time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic, and I wouldn't even be cursing too much if Google de-indexed all my sites this afternoon. Don't depend on search engines for traffic. That's what all the people here (and in other forums) have done, who end up wondering where they've gone so wrong.

Anyway, I think you've made a really good decision to try "gardening", if it's your passion, rather than the "make money online" stuff you've been trying so far.