For many blog owners, they fail to capitalize on search engine traffic because they don’t understand how search engines work and how important it is for their blogs to rank high for their chosen keywords. Failing to bring in targeted traffic is one reason many bloggers stop trying to make money with affiliate programs and find the next scheme to jump into.

If they only understood how easy it was, they might have a chance. All it takes is just three simple steps. By following these easy steps, you can increase traffic and be the difference in a blog that builds the owner virtually no income or a blog that creates wealth for the Blogger.

If you want to take advantage of free search engine traffic, follow the advice below to optimize every post you post and take advantage of free targeted Internet users.

To begin with, you should make sure your blog post url’s are search engine compatible. If you use a free blog service like Blogger, this is already done. WordPress blogs need a little work. If you use the WordPress blogging platform, then set your url structure so that blog creates search engine optimized url’s when you post an article.

All you have to do in WordPress is find the 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 percent symbol. This makes sure your blog will have SEO 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 it something totally unrelated.

The next important step is to write the keywords in your Post’s title. If you’re trying to get traffic to come to your post about ebay to earn money, then put the keywords in the post title. Forget about using non relevant titles 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 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.

If you’ll use these 3 easy to follow tips, you will be helping the Search Engines know 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, the search engines will rank you higher in their listings.

Now the only thing you’ll need is to build links to your blog and blog post. But I’ll have to save that for another post. Get used to optimizing your blog and blog post before tackling the chore of building links to your site.