As a affiliate marketing advisor, walk me through my choice of the best blogging platform.

Ask me questions about my budget, my technical experience and how much time I can commit to this project.

Possible blog platforms include but are not limited to Wordpress self-hosted, Wordpress.com, Medium, Ghost, Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, Blogger, Substack and beehiiv.

SEO is important for this blog. Traffic will come from Google SEO primarily and social media secondarily.  

Return your ranking of results in order of highest to lowest preference based on my responses, with pros and cons of each platform, in a table.