SEO Optimize Your Blog Post In 3 Easy Steps

March 8, 2009 by  

Many bloggers believe they don’t need to SEO optimize their blog 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 online and go off doing something else.

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 three simple steps. These three steps can increase visitors which can be the difference in a blog that creates its owner little if any income or one that becomes a great source of additional income.

Follow this advice to SEO optimize every blog post you post and take advantage of free targeted Internet users.

To begin with, you should make sure your article addresses are search engine compatible. With a blog platform like BlogSpot, this is automatically done for you. WordPress blogs need a little work. If you use the WordPress blogging platform, then set your url structure so that WordPress will produce SEO friendly url’s when you write 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 percent symbol. You’ve now ensured that all your post will have SEO friendly post.

The most important tip on SEO optimizing your blog is to put the keyword in the Title of your blog. For example, if you’re blogging about ways to earn extra cash, then you’ll want these keywords in your Blog’s title. What you don’t want to do is put unrelated keywords in your Title. By using the keywords in the Title, then you’ll rank higher than if you name it Johns Blog.

The next requirement is to use your keywords in your Post’s title. If you’re targeting people to come to your post about ebay to earn money, then put the keywords in the post title. Forget about using non relevant titles 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.

By following this advice, you will be helping the Search Engines know what your post and blog are about. By taking a little extra time and making it easy for them to understand what subject your blog post is about, they’ll rank your blog higher in their listings.

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.

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