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Many bloggers fail to realize how important search engine traffic can be because they rely solely on Social Media traffic. 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 three simple steps. These three steps can increase browsers to your site and be the difference between a blog that creates the owner little if any income or one that becomes a great source of additional income.

Follow the advice below to search engine optimize every article you write and start reaping the rewards of free targeted Internet users.

To begin with, you should make certain your blog post url’s are search engine compatible. With a blog platform like BlogSpot, this is already done. WordPress blogs need a little work. If you use the WordPress blogging platform, then you’ll need to set your permalinks so that the code produces optimized url’s when you make a post.

The way you get this done in WordPress is find the 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} add another percent symbol. You’ve now ensured that all your post will have optimized urls.

Next, your main keyword should be in the Title of the blog. If you’re blogging about ways to earn extra cash, then you’ll want these keywords in your Blog’s title. 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. By 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 important step is to use the keywords in your Post’s title. If you want blog readers to visit your post about online auctions 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 can forget about getting free traffic. 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.

Implementing these 3 simple tips will go a long ways in letting the Search Engines determine what your post and blog are about. By taking a little extra time and making it easy for the search engines to determine what your post and blog are about, they’ll rank you higher in the Search Engine ranking pages.

Now to fully take advantage of all this optimizing, you’ll need to build links to each post. Ahh, but link building is a whole nother article that has to be saved for later. Get used to optimizing your blog and blog post before tackling the chore of building links to your site.

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