How To Optimize Your Blog Post For Search Engine Traffic
For many blog owners, they fail to capitalize on search engine traffic because they do not understand how important SEO optimizing their blog is. This is one reason you’ll see so many bloggers fail to earn money online.
It doesn’t take a SEO guru to optimize your blog. Your blog post could be SEO friendly in just three simple steps. With these 3 simple steps can increase browsers to your site which may make the difference in a blog that makes the blogger very little income or one that produces a full time income for the Owner.
Here are a few simple tips to SEO optimize every post you post and start taking advantage of free targeted Internet users.
To start with, you should make sure your article url’s are optimized for the search engines. With free blogs like Google’s Blogger blogs, this is already done. If you’re a WordPress user, then you’ll want to change your url structure so that the code produces search engine optimized url’s when you make a post.
To do this in WordPress is go to the Permalinks tab, and check the button next to the Custom field. Next you’ll put a percentage sign followed by the words Postname. {Immediately after the words postname, Now} add another percent symbol. You’ve now ensured that all your post will have optimized post.
The best tip to optimizing your blog is to put your main keyword in the Title. Let’s say you’re blogging about how to make fast money, then make sure these keywords are in the Title of your blog. If your blog is about Dogs, then don’t use something unrelated like your name in the title unless you also have the word Dog in there also. If your name is John and you have a blog named Johns Dog Blog, then you’ll rank higher than if you name the blog something that does not tell the search engine what your blogs about.
Your next move is to put the keywords in the Post’s title. If you’re targeting blog readers to read your post about online auctions to to make extra money, then your post title should have those keywords in it. 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. If you’re blog is monetized with Adsense, this tip will increase traffic while showing the highest paying ads for an increase in the pay per click you receive.
If you’ll use these 3 easy to follow tips, you will go a long ways in letting the Search Engines understand what your post and blog are about. By making it easy easy for them to determine what subject your blog post is about, the search engines will rank your post higher in the Search Engine ranking pages.
Building links to each of your optimized post is the last step in dominating the search engine rankings with your blog post. But alas, there isn’t enough room here to go ito the details of link building. Learn how to optimize your blog and blog post first before taking on link building.
