Monthly Archives: November 2009

Getting the most out of StumbleUpon

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 ...

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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 ...

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Categories vs. Tags

Image via Wikipedia It took me a while to understand the difference between categories ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 with ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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