Do you blog to earn money from your efforts or do you blog to express your thoughts and wishes? If you want to earn money from your blog, then you need to be taking advantage of search engine traffic. Sadly, many Bloggers fail miserably at this simple step. But it doesn’t have to be like this. It’s pretty easy to optimize your blog post to take advantage of the free traffic that a search engine can deliver. But if you fail at doing this, don’t expect to make much money for your efforts.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. It can be done in three easy steps. With these 3 simple steps can increase browsers to your site which can be the difference in a blog that makes its owner very little income or one that a blogger can quit their day job and make a full time living with.

The 3 tips below will get you on your way to optimizing your blog in order to bring in search engine traffic that is willing to click on your ads. This will take very little time but pay you back with huge dividends.

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 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 earn extra cash, then make sure these keywords are in 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 your blog something that does not relate to your main keyword.

You’re next step is to write your keywords in the Post’s title. If you’re trying to get blog readers to come to your post about online auctions to to make extra money, then your keywords need to be in your post title. Not something 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.

And that’s all there is too it. It’s not hard and these tips take little time but will provide huge returns if you’re patient and build links to each of your pages. You’ll also rank much higher than your competitors who do not do this.

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.