Establishing your blog as an authority in your market can be a challenging prospect. This is particularly so if you are just starting out. The more authority you have the more people like Google will love you. Consider that Google ranks the pages and posts in your blog and not actually your all round blog.

This is excellent news. Because this signifies 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 techniques you can use immediately and incorporate into your blog training.

The first is one of the easiest ways to start creating 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. A piece of cake. Go to Google search engine, and carry out a search using your keyword and specific operators.

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

panic attacks & "title="CommentLuv Enabled""

rather

"Enable CommentLuv" + panic attacks

You should be able to retrieve plenty 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 publish. If you make this a habit you will quickly start to create your links and, hence, your authority standing.

The second cute trick that you could apply in your blog training and that will also save you hours and hours of blog promotion effort is automating your social network notifications. Social networks create you an opportunity to broadcast your posts to the planet. 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 guidelines:

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

Bingo! That's all there is to it. Every moment you post or create a page on your blog the plugin will send 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 runs a treat and, now set up, will grow your popularity without thinking about it.

Every blogger should explore ways to automate the important functions of a blog without compromising on the quality of the actual posts. Incorporating these simple approach into your blog education will produce rewards in the long run and, best of all will allow you to concentrate on your content.