Become an Online Authority

Have you been building your authority online around the topics most relevant to your business?

Establish yourself as a credible, resourceful and legitimate source of information for your niche and web site theme. This powerful trait has a myriad of advantages for your online business.

• Gain Trust from your visitors and customers quickly, leading to more sales.
• Establish respect from your peers to lead to more beneficial partnerships and opportunities.
• Attract more referrals, offline and online.
• Grow your brand and your business.
• More sales!

When you can learn to establish yourself as an authority in your chosen niche you can count on good things happening. You create an elevated level of trust from your customers, colleagues, competitors and prospects. This can only make it easier for you to build your business.

How Do You Establish Authority?

Being an online authority means to become a 'thought leader' in your niche. It means to be able to present your information in your blogs and website in a manner than earns trust with your visitors and customers. Gaining trust makes sense, people like to do business and follow people they trust. By making the effort to become an authority in your niche it gives your BRAND personality and leads to generating more customers and revenue. There are several areas that can help establish you as an online authority, amongst them; content, links, social, recognition and even offline. Here we will concentrate on perhaps the easiest, content.

Content Creation

Stay focused on your Niche. Write about things you are interested in and have a passion for enjoying. Your audience will reap more benefits and so will you.

Write and Optimize with Keywords

A great way to gain status is to write to teach someone how to do something. Be relevant and accurate. When people see that your advice works you will start to get repeat visitors. When you optimize your informational keyword phrases properly you will see increased ranking and placement in the search engines. This will help you establish your Authority.

Keep Current

Regularly update, repurpose and republish old website and blog content.

Set a schedule

Plan to develop content and publish quality content consistently.

Be a Credible Source

Don't write junk your audience doesn't need to know or doesn't care about. Focus on the best information you can for you visitors.

If you're trying to build your online authority -- like most smart marketers are -- these are the ways you can use content to get the job done.