If you've been blogging for a little while, you may have experienced something like this: You log into your blog on a normal day, expecting to see what you always see. Instead, there's a huge spike in traffic, two or three times your normal pageviews level! You click to find out more, and there it…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Health Bloggers Dish: Whitney from Whit's Getting Fit
It's Health Bloggers Dish Monday here at Health Blog Helper! Today's blog chat comes from the fabulously fun Whitney at Whit's Getting Fit! Whit's Getting Fit is a food and fitness blog that journals Whitney's day to day approach to healthy eating and living well. Whit's posts are always entertaining and fun to read –…
Categories vs. Tags
Image via Wikipedia It took me a while to understand the difference between categories and tags. For the first few weeks of my blog's life, it was a mess, organizationally speaking. I used to tag every post with "vegetarian," for example, even posts that had nothing to do with food! It all clicked when I…
Where is the Link Love?
Did you know that Google and other search engines pay attention to the number of incoming links to your site? The more websites that link back to you, the more likely Google is to take notice and in return, give you a better ranking in their search results. We all want Google to think highly…
Backin' it up
How do you make a post about backing up your WordPress blog sound exciting? Answer: you don't! But with a WordPress security update just released (2.8.6), we are reminded that backing up your self-hosted blog is a necessary evil. Luckily, there's a plugin that makes the process decidedly un-evil, which I'll tell you about in…
Quick Tip: Your Best Work
We've all written posts that were better than others. Posts that you felt really great about when you published them and probably still feel great about today. If you post on your blog regularly and put up a lot of content, these favorites can easily get lost in the archives – buried deeper and deeper…
More Plugins!
Hey guys and gals! A lot of you have told me you appreciated the WordPress plugins list I posted a while back. Since I wrote that post, I've discovered a few more plugins that I don't know how I lived without, as well as remembered an important one that I forgot to list in the…
Google Analytics 101
Much like Feed Burner, Google Analytics is a very powerful tool that can tell you a lot about the traffic your site gets. How many unique visitors is your blog getting? How long are your readers sticking around once they get there? Are the large majority of your readers coming in through search engines or…
The Need for Feed
If you're reading this post, chances are you know what a feed is. It's likely that you're reading this as a feed right now, rather than actually visiting the site. But as important as feeds are to blogs, most bloggers know almost nothing about how many subscribers they have or how to control what their…
Health Bloggers Dish: Erica from Itzy's Kitchen
Happy Health Bloggers Dish Monday! Today's serving of blogger love was cooked up for us by Erica from Itzy's Kitchen! Erica's sweet persona was not only evident in our email conversations, but shines through her writing as well. Itzy's Kitchen showcases Erica's favorite recipes as well as her life as a fitness instructor and a…