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Blog Education - Save Time And Automate Your Promotional Efforts
Establishing your blog as an authority in your niche 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. Bear in mind that Google ranks the pages and posts in your blog and not actually your complete blog.
This is good news. Because this means that every blog post or page you write should extend your blogs authority status. So make certain it does. How?
Listed below are a couple of tactics you can use immediately and incorporate into your blog training.
The first is one of the simplest ways to start developing your authority. It is to build incoming links through commenting. If you use a plugin called CommentLuv on your blog you will be able to leave comments on associated niche blogs that also have CommentLuv installed.
How do you discover a blog with this plugin. Easy as pie. Go to Google search engine, and carry out a search using your keyword and specified operators.
If I was searching for blogs in the 'Panic Attacks' niche I would find for
panic attacks & "title="CommentLuv Enabled""
or rather
"Enable CommentLuv" + panic attacks
You ought to 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 publish. If you make this a habit you will before long start to create your links and, hence, your authority standing.
The second cute trick that you could make use of 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 entire world. Submitting your notifications one by one is not really feasible in the long term. Try this and I guarantee that sooner rather than later you will give up.
Anyway, right here are your step-by-step guidelines:
1. Get a no cost 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 member of yet, and add 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 attach it to the Options of your plugin using Settings -> PingPressFM
6. Click on "Triggers" and set 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 build a page on your blog the plugin will send a notification to ping.fm using 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, once set up, will grow your reputation without thinking about it.
Every blogger should find ways to automate the critical functions of a blog without compromising on the quality of the actual posts. Incorporating these simple techniques into your blog education will produce rewards in the long run and, best of all will allow you to focus on your content.