I personally don’t acknowledge any authorities.
But if you want to start writing a good blog, then write with authority from day one.
Don’t write your blog like nobody is reading, write it like everybody is reading.
You don’t need millions of people reading your blog to make it meaningful, handful of people is okay, because the job is the same either you write for one, or for one million.
Writing with authority will make your blog readable and better.
Targeting long tail keywords by writing articles can add up over time and get your blog decent views.
You know – people read everything, if they can stumble on it, but the hardest part is getting your blog posts in front of them.
There’s so much noise competing for attention.
Every blog post screams ‘read me’.
People read everything, but they don’t have enough attention to spare to read through everything.
Besides people don’t have to read your blog, the fact that you made it doesn’t translate into automatic views. View is when somebody visits your blog, but it doesn’t mean the person visiting the blog is actually reading it.
Vygintas Varnas 