3 Important Tips To SEO Your Blog
Written by Announcement Author on Monday, September 21st, 2009 in Blogs and Blogging.
For many bloggers, they fail to realize how important search engine traffic can be because they have been told it’s more important to get Social traffic rather than Search Engine traffic. This is one of the many reasons bloggers fail to make extra money with their blog.
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. It can be done in 3 easy steps. These three steps can increase traffic which may be the difference in a blog that makes the owner very little income or one that a blogger can quit their day job and make a full time living with.
Follow this advice to search engine optimize every article you write and start taking advantage of free search engine traffic.
To start with, you should make absolutely sure that your article addresses are optimized for the search engines. With many free blog services like Blogger, this is automatically done for you. If you’re a WordPress user, then change your permalinks so that blog creates SEO optimized url’s when you post an article.
All you have to do in WordPress is to click on 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. This makes sure your blog will have SEO friendly addresses.
The next tip on optimizing your blog is to put your main keywords in the Title. This is very important. For example, if you’re blogging about how 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 write your keywords in the Post’s title. If you’re trying to get blog readers to click on your post about online auctions to to make a living online, 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 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.
These 3 tips will be helping the Search Engines know what your post is about. When you make it easy for the search engines to understand what your post and blog are about, they’ll rank your blog higher than a non-optimized blog.
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.