If you’re a blogger, chances are you’re not getting the all important search engine traffic you could. Don’t worry, most other bloggers don’t either because they don’t understand how search engines work and how important it is for their blogs to rank high for their chosen keywords. Failing to bring in targeted traffic is one reason many bloggers stop trying to make money with affiliate programs and find the next scheme to jump into.
SEO’ing your blog post is simple. It can be done in 3 easy steps. By doing these three steps all the time, you can increase traffic and make the difference in a blog that makes its blogger very little income or a blog that creates wealth for the Blogger.
Here are a few simple tips to SEO optimize every post you upload and start taking advantage of free targeted Internet users.
To begin with, you should make absolutely sure that your post url’s are optimized for the search engines. With free blogs like Google’s Blogger blogs, this is already done. If you use WordPress, then set your permalinks so that blog creates optimized url’s when you write a post.
The way you do this in WordPress is go to the Permalinks tab, and click the radio button along side the Custom field. Then you’ll put a percentage sign followed by the words Postname. {Immediately after the words postname, Now} put another percent symbol. Now all your blog post will have SEO optimized urls.
The best tip to optimizing your blog is to put your main keyword in the Title. If you’re blogging about to make fast money, 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.
The next important step is to use the keywords in the Post’s title. If you want blog readers to click on your post about using Ebay to to make extra money, then put the keywords in the post title. Not irrelevant keywords like How I Make Money With Auctions. If you do this, the search engines will have trouble determining what your post is about and prevents search engine users from finding your blog post. This is especially important if you’re trying to make money with Adsense.
These 3 tips will be helping the Search Engines determine what your post and blog are about. By taking a little extra time and making it easy for them to determine what subject your blog post is about, the search engines will rank you higher in the Search Engine ranking pages.
Now the only thing you’ll need is to build links to your blog and blog post. But alas, there isn’t enough room here to go ito the details of link building. First, get acquainted optimizing your own blog and blog post.

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