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.

Optimizing your blog post is very simple. Your blog post could be SEO friendly in just three simple steps. These three steps can increase browsers to your site and make the difference in a blog that builds its owner little if any income or one that becomes a great source of additional income.

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

For starters, you should make sure your post url’s 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 want to change your url structure so that WordPress will produce search engine optimized url’s when you post an article.

To do this in WordPress is to click on the Permalinks tab, and check the button next to 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. Now all your blog post will have SEO optimized addresses.

Next, your main keyword should be in the Title of the blog. Let’s say you’re blogging about to make fast money, then make these keywords the Title of your blog. 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 put the keywords in the Post’s title. If you’re trying to get people to read your post about using Ebay to make money at home, then your post title should have those keywords in it. Not something like How I Make Money With Auctions. The search engines won’t know what your post is about and prevents search engine users from finding your blog post. 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.

By following this advice, you will be helping the Search Engines understand what subject your blog post is about. When you make it easy for the search engines to understand what subject your blog post is about, they’ll rank your post 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.