Make More Money With Affiliate Marketing With Optimized Blogs
Today, many Bloggers sadly believe all they need to be successful is a high RSS subscriber count. This may be true for a few A-list bloggers, but for the Average Joe Blogger, you’ll need traffic coming from the search engines to be successful. I think it’s safe to say many people get into blogging to earn money. When the traffic doesn’t come then the money doesn’t follow. Failing to take advantage of search engine is one reason so many people fail at blogging.
When done properly, search engine optimization can bring in a ton of highly targeted Internet users. These users traditionally convert better than Social Media visitors which leads to bigger paychecks. You may think it’s Rocket Science to SEO your blog, but that isn’t so. SEO optimizing your blog only takes 3 simple steps and anyone can learn how to do it in a short amount of time.
I’ll show you in 3 easy steps how to optimize your blog and your blog post to take advantage of free targeted traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo and others.
The first thing you should do is to make sure your url’s are search engine friendly if they aren’t already. Let’s say your blog post is Titled “Make Money With Blogs”. These keywords should show up in your url. If they are not, you’re missing out on a huge SEO benefit. By including your keywords in the URL, you’re telling the search engine what your blog and post are about and making it easier for them to figure this out.
Blogger dot com is set to show your post keywords in the url’s. In WordPress you’ll need to change the Permalink structure. You’ll do this under the Permalinks tab in your WordPress dashboard. Simply set the Custom field to percent sign - postname - percent sign. (without the dashes)
The best tip to optimizing your blog is to put your main keyword in the Title. Let’s say you’re blogging about earning money easy, then use these keywords in the Title of your blog and your blog post. Don’t put something like Johns Blog. 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.
Now you need to ensure that when you write a post, that you use the keywords you’re trying to target in the post title. This will also show up in your URL. This helps the search engine bots figure out what your post are about. Don’t confuse them by having a rambling post about nothing. If you’re writing about making money online, then make sure your post has those keywords in it.
These three tips will be letting the Search Engines understand what your post and blog are about. By taking a little extra time and making it easy for them to know what your post and blog are about, the search engines will rank your blog higher in their listings.
Now if you really want to make money online with Affiliate Marketing or Adsense, you’ll need to point some links at these pages. Make certain you use your keywords in your Anchor Text and try and make sure the links you do get are from relevant pages on the Internet. This is just about the best scenario you can wish for if you’re trying to earn extra money on the Internet.
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