If you want to get traffic to your blog posts that actually looks at your Ads and makes you money,  you have to target keywords within your blog posts. There are quite a large percentage of people that think that if they tweak their posts to get more SEO traffic to their blogs, their readers will run away screaming for mercy. The truth is that you do not have to repeat your targeted keywords over and over again to be able to make a fully SEO optimized blog post. So how can you write posts that does not look like nonsense to your readers and that actually have a chance to rank in search engines?

1) Use your title tag. If you are concerned about putting off your readers or perhaps the titles of your posts not sounding interesting to your readers if you drop a huge long tail keyword, you can at least use the title tag. The title tag is the single most important on page SEO factor in any web page. It has even more weight that keywords inside the actual content. Use it to your advantage. The truth is that a lot of people that are landing on your site through a feed do not even look at your title tag. Most of them look at your post’s title. The title tag used for SEO does not affect in any way your post’s content or how it appears on feeds, it does affect click through rate on SERPs though.

Let me give you an example. If you are writing a post about your experience when you visited let’s say China and you post your blog tittle like: “I am back from China” it may appeal to friends and readers but besides your regular readers you will get no organic traffic. You can use common plug ins like the all in one seo pack to change you SEO title tag to something that may be more relevant for example, “China Tourism - My Adventures When I Decided to Travel to China”.  Of course, this is just an example I made rather quickly for the purpose of this post and it sucks but I know you will get the idea I hope. Those phrases have a lot of competition but if you point anchored links to that page you have more of a chance to get some search engine traffic from long tails if you can’t rank on page one for the targeted terms.

2) Take advantage of your URL. Another little tweak that you can do to your posts to help you make money online is to take advantage of the URL. If you are using wordpress as your platform you can change the automatically generated URL to one that is more suitable. This automatically generated URL will just take your post’s title and transform it into an URL. So if you are following the example above you can probably predict the url will look like this: http://www.yoursite.com/i-am-back-from-china or even uglier if you are using a permalink structure that uses dates or stuff like that. You can at least change the i-am-back-from-china part of the URL to something like http://www.yoursite.com/travel-to-china or perhaps http://www.yoursite.com/china-tourism.

3) Use WP tags. Tags not only add to the overall navigation structure of the site but they are also picked up by engines such as technorati. Which…. Gets you links!!!!  They also appear on your blog’s technorati page like categories. You can use tags to drop keywords that you are targeting without annoying readers. Mostly everyone does this but a lot people tag with the first thing that comes to mind. Use targeted keywords instead. This little techniques is very useful if your post has a very low keyword density. You get double the fun if you have a tag cloud in your site. By the way if you have been following the SEO niche recently you may already know that no follow page rank sculpting is dead. Matt Cutts announced it recently. If you have your categories and tags set to no follow the corresponding page rank does not stay within your site. It just disappears instead of remaining within the page. Yep, even no follow links lower your page rank and this includes no followed blog comments and there is nothing you can do about it if you have a blog. Unless you close the comment section, which is not a good option if you ask me.

4) Interlink your posts. One of the best ways that you can help your blog get better search engine traffic is to interlink you posts. You can use targeted anchor text from new posts and you can modify older posts to point links to your home page or any entry that you may want to get more link juice. I usually modify very old posts to point to other pages in my sites. It is even better if they already have some page rank. Try to find entries that have page rank and point links to them to your home page and you will see what happens. A tactic that I usually use on my niche sites is if my blog is targeting something like: used cars, I write a post targeting cheap used cars. Then I use article marketing to give this post some link juice and anchor text authority for phrases like cheap used cars, affordable used cars.  Then I build links to this post with the anchor used cars. Finally, I link from this post to the home page with guess what anchor? Used cars. The idea is that if your home page is ranking for used cars and you make a post rank for the same term even if its 200 results deep and you link to your home page that is ranking decently for the same term there is a high chance that your home page will move higher and make you more money depending on the authority of other sites competing for that phrase.

5) Use your keywords wisely within your posts. One of the first things I mentioned in this post is that you do not have to repeat the same keywords over and over. One of the best ways that you can optimize your content is to use related keywords. If you use the Adwords tool you will find many just by running a search for the top level keyword. Then if you find one that is related to what you are writing about then put that keyword in the search box and run it again. The system will give related phrases and long tails that you can use inside your content. Export a list of words so that you have a reference as to what different words you can use that are on topic and that have traffic. Having a small list of 10 words is more than enough to help you create a post that flows and does not look ridiculous in the eyes of your readers. You do not have to use all the words just a a few. Use them when appropriate. This way you have more chances to make money blogging about whatever you write about even if your blog is a general niche blog. Hey, I have friends that post about whatever they like and get a lot of organic traffic because they research their topic and tweak their content before posting.

Now if you made it up to here reading you should have an idea on how you can tune up your blog to help you generate a little more blog traffic. If you use these strategies wisely you will find that they will help you make money with Adsense or whatever you are promoting. Eventually, if you are getting more people to your site, you will get more blog readers if you are trying to be famous. So that is it for now folks. Tweak your posts and make money online now.Posts you might also like:

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