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 do not understand how important SEO optimizing their blog is. This is one of the many reasons bloggers fail to make extra money with their blog.

SEO’ing your blog post is simple. All it takes is just three simple steps. By following these easy steps, you can increase traffic which can make the difference in a blog that creates the owner virtually no income or one that becomes a great source of additional income.

Here are a few simple tips to optimize every article you write and take advantage of free search engine traffic.

To start with, you should make absolutely sure that your blog post addresses are optimized for the search engines. With many free blog services like Google’s Blogger blogs, this is already done. If you’re a WordPress user, then you’ll need to set your permalinks 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} add another percentage sign. This makes sure your blog will have search engine optimized urls.

The best tip to optimizing your blog is to put your main keyword in the Title. If you’re blogging about earn money easy, then make these keywords the Title of your blog. 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 your blog something that does not relate to your main keyword.

The next important step is to use the keywords in the Post’s title. If you’re trying to lure 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. Doing this prevents the search engine bots from figuring out 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 go a long ways in helping the Search Engines determine what your post is about. When you make it easy for them to know what your post and blog are about, they’ll 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. But I’ll have to save that for another post. But you need to learn how to optimize your blog before tackling link building.