Affiliate marketing is all over the internet. Sign onto Twitter or do a few Google searches, and it's almost impossible to not be exposed to an affiliate link. It works like this: a regular guy or gal signs up with an advertiser, gets a special tracking link or some code for an ad, then publishes…
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Health Bloggers Dish: Angela from Oh She Glows
Welcome to Health Bloggers Dish here at Health Blog Helper! If you caught our introduction to this new series and first interview last week with Caitlin, you'll know this series used to be called Behind the Blog. We came discover there is another series of interviews in the healthy living blogosphere with the exact same…
Are Your Links Causing Leaks?
It's useful to think of your blog as a bucket, and your search engine visibility as a valuable liquid that it contains. When you link to another blog or website, a little bit flows out of a hole in your bucket into theirs. When someone links to you, a little bit comes back. The bigger…
Honest Blogging
Hi there Health Blog Helper readers! My name is Allison, and I blog about my experiences as a new runner who is trying to lose weight by eating whole foods at Eat Clean Live Green. When Matt asked if I would be interested in writing a guest post, I thought this would be a great…
Health Bloggers Dish: Caitlin from Healthy Tipping Point
Have you ever found yourself reading some of the more prominent blogs in the Healthy Living niche and wondered where they got their start? What obstacles have they overcome? What does it take to write an all-star blog that attracts thousands of readers every day? Chances are if you're reading Health Blog Helper you have…
Yeah, There's a Plugin for That
A New Weekly Feature! Before I get into this week's topic, I have some exciting news to tell you about. Starting this Monday, there will be a new series of weekly guest posts from a blogger many of you know, Alison from Mama's Weeds! Each week, Alison will interview a top blogger in the healthy-lifestyle…
How Reader-Friendly Is Your Blog?
The idea behind growing your blog's readership is simple: in order to grow, you need to gain new readers faster than you lose the ones you already have. You probably put a lot of thought into the first element and do a lot of work to expose your blog to new readers. Commenting on other…
Turn Your Posts Into Google Magnets
When I started paying attention to search engine optimization (actually, when I bought an e-book I'll tell you about at the end of the post), my blog No Meat Athlete was getting around 30 search visits per day. As you can see from the Google Analytics graph above, I went from 29 search visits on…
AdSense: For New Blogs, It Doesn't Ad Up
Google AdSense is tempting for new bloggers. You sign up, get approved in a day, paste their code into your blog, and bam, you're getting paid for blogging, every time someone clicks one of the ads. Ideally. The problem isn't that you can't make any money with AdSense. You can if you're good at it…
Swingin' for the Fences: Writing Content That Spreads
Without a doubt, the biggest difference I see when I compare non-food blogs to food blogs is this: non-food bloggers write less frequent, more thought-out posts, with the hope that they'll go viral. That is, that they'll be linked to, Dugg, tweeted, Stumbled, and anything else that has the potential to bring hundreds or thousands…