3 Ways To SEO Optimize Your Blog
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. This is one of the many reasons bloggers fail to make extra money with their blog.
Making your blog post search engine friendly is very easy and I’ll show you how to do it. All it takes is just 3 easy steps. By doing these three steps all the time, you can increase visitors which can make the difference in a blog that makes its blogger virtually no income or one that produces a full time income for the Owner.
Follow this advice to search engine optimize every blog article you write and take advantage of free targeted Internet users.
To begin with, you should make certain your article addresses are SEO friendly. With a blog platform like Blogger, this is done automatically and cannot be changed. If you’re a WordPress user, then you’ll need to set your url structure so that WordPress will produce optimized url’s when you create a post.
To do this in WordPress is to click on 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} put another percentage sign. This makes sure your blog will have SEO optimized post.
The next tip on optimizing your blog is to put your main keywords in the Title. This is very important. Let’s say you’re blogging about how to earn extra cash, then use these keywords in the Title of your blog and your blog post. 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 the blog something that does not tell the search engine what your blogs about.
The next requirement is to write the keywords in the Post’s title. If you want traffic to click on your post about ebay to to make a living online, then your keywords need to be in your post title. Not irrelevant keywords like How I Make Money With Auctions. The search engines won’t know 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.
By following this advice, you will go a long ways in letting the Search Engines know what your post is about. By making it easy easy for the search engines to understand what subject your blog post is about, the search engines will rank your post higher than a non-optimized blog.
Now to fully take advantage of all this optimizing, you’ll need to build links to each 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.
