Guest post by Jamie from Start Blogging Online

Your blog is a platform to voice out your opinions and thoughts. It is also a vehicle to raise money. There are advertisers willing to pay popular bloggers to place their ads on the site. It is a win-win situation. Relying on your blog alone to be popular is a big blogging mistake. Before you reach a point where you become an authority in a particular niche you have to build your name first.

Try writing for other blogs as a guest blogger to build your name. This will increase your online visibility. Be sure to add a link to your own blog. Of course, you have to reserve your best write-ups for your own blog.

The infographic below shows other mistakes bloggers makes when running a blog site. Avoid these mistakes so your site becomes popular in no time. It takes a lot to reach a certain level of popularity, but it can be done.