For many blog owners, they fail to capitalize on search engine traffic because they believe Social Media traffic is enough. This is one of the many reasons bloggers fail to make extra money with their blog.
If they understood how easy it was to SEO optimize their blog post, they just might get the free organic traffic they need to be successful. All it takes is just 3 easy steps. By doing these three steps all the time, you can increase visitors and make the difference between a blog that builds the blogger very little income or one that a blogger can quit their day job and make a full time living with.
Follow this advice to search engine optimize every blog article you write and start taking advantage of free Internet search engine traffic.
To begin with, you should make sure your article addresses are search engine compatible. With a blog platform like Google’s Blogger blogs, this is automatically done for you. If you’re a WordPress user, then you’ll want to change your permalinks so that WordPress will produce search engine optimized url’s when you write a post.
To do this in WordPress is find the the Permalinks tab, and click the radio button next to the Custom field. Next you’ll put a percentage sign followed by the words Postname. {Immediately after the words postname, Now} put another percent symbol. You’ve now ensured that all your post will have search engine optimized urls.
The best tip to optimizing your blog is to put your main keyword in the Title. If you’re blogging about ways to earn extra cash, then you’ll want these keywords in your Blog’s title. Don’t put something like Johns Blog. Using the keywords in the Title, then you’ll rank higher than if you name your blog something that does not relate to your main keyword.
Your next move is to use your keywords in your Post’s title. If you want blog readers to click on your post about ebay to to make extra money, then put the keywords in the post title. Not irrelevant keywords like How I Make Money With Auctions. The search engines won’t know what your post is about and the search engine traffic you need won’t appear. This is especially important if you’re trying to make money with Adsense.
These three tips will be helping the Search Engines know what subject your blog post is about. When you make it easy for them to understand what your post is about, the search engines will rank your post higher in their listings.
Now to fully take advantage of all this optimizing, you’ll need to build links to each post. Ahh, but link building is a whole nother article that has to be saved for later. But you need to learn how to optimize your blog before tackling link building.