Simple Tips For Optimizing Your Blog For Search Engine Traffic

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For many bloggers, they fail to realize how important search engine traffic can be because they have no clue as to how to go about optimizing their blogs. Failing to capitalize on this free targeted traffic is one reason so many new bloggers don’t earn fast money with their blog.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. It can be done in three easy steps. By doing these three steps all the time, you can increase visitors which may be the difference between a blog that makes its blogger little if any income or one that a blogger can quit their day job and make a full time living with.
Here are a few simple tips to search engine optimize every blog post you upload and start taking advantage of free search engine traffic.
To begin with, you should make sure your blog post addresses are SEO optimized. If you use a free blog service like BlogSpot, this is done automatically and cannot be changed. WordPress blogs need a little work. If you use the WordPress blogging platform, then change your url structure or permalink so that blog creates SEO optimized url’s when you write a post.
All you have to do 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 add another percent symbol. This makes sure your blog will have SEO optimized addresses.
The most important tip on SEO optimizing your blog is to put the keyword in the Title of your blog. Let’s say you’re blogging about how to make fast money, then make these keywords the Title of your blog. What you don’t want to do is put unrelated keywords in your Title. Using the keywords in the Title, then you’ll rank higher than if you name it something totally unrelated.
Your next move is to use the keywords in your Post’s title. If you’re trying to lure traffic to visit your post about ebay 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. Doing this prevents the search engine bots from figuring out what your post is about and you won’t attract the right kind of traffic. If you’re using Adsense to monetize your blog, this is a very important tip to get targeted traffic for high paying keywords.
Implementing these 3 simple tips will go a long ways in letting the Search Engines determine what your post is about. When you make it easy for the search engines to understand what your post and blog are about, the search engines will rank you 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. Ahh, but link building is a whole nother article that has to be saved for later. First, get acquainted optimizing your own blog and blog post.
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