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Starting your blog as an authority in your market can be a difficult prospect. This is particularly so if you are just starting out. The more authority you have the more people like Google will like you. Remember that Google ranks the pages and posts in your blog and not really your overall blog.

This is good news. Because this means that every blog post or page you write should increase your blogs authority status. So make sure it does. How?

Listed below are a couple of tactics you can use now and add to into your blog training.

The first is one of the simplest ways to start establishing your authority. It is to build incoming links through commenting. If you apply a plugin called CommentLuv on your blog you will be able to leave comments on related niche blogs that also have CommentLuv installed.

How do you find a blog with this plugin. Easy. Go to Google search engine, and conduct a search utilizing your keyword and exact operators.

If I was looking for blogs in the 'Panic Attacks' niche I would find for

panic attacks & "title="CommentLuv Enabled""

or

"Enable CommentLuv" + panic attacks

You should be able to find loads of results for blogs in the panic attacks niche that have CommentLuv installed. In theory you would make at a minimum 10 comments per blog post or page you write. If you make this a habit you will soon start to build your links and, hence, your authority rank.

The second tactic that you could utilize in your blog training and that will also save you hours and hours of blog promotion work is automating your social network notifications. Social networks give you an option to broadcast your posts to the world. Submitting your notifications one by one is not honestly feasible in the long term. Try this and I ensure that sooner rather than later you will give up.

Anyway, here are your step-by-step instructions:

1. Get a free account at http://ping.fm
2. Add Social Networks utilizing Options provided (this is the time consuming bit)
3. Generate account on those networks that you are not a affiliate of yet, and attach them to the social network list for Posting
4. Install a new plugin PingPressFM using "Add New" option and activate it
5. Acquire API Key from ping.fm and attach it to the Options of your plugin using Settings -> PingPressFM
6. Click on "Triggers" and insert check for "Trigger Active" for each posting trigger you need to use.
7. Click "Update Options"

Bingo! That's all there is to it. Every time you post or construct a page on your blog the plugin will give out a notification to ping.fm utilizing the triggers you have enabled on your blog which, in turn, will make automated posts to each social network you have added to your list.

This automated system operates a treat and, once set up, will grow your reputation without thinking about it.

Every blogger should investigate ways to automate the important functions of a blog without compromising on the caliber of the actual posts. Using these simple techniques into your blog education will reap rewards in the long run and, best of all will allow you to concentrate on your content.