Monthly Archives: December 2009

All About the Vlog

Hey Health Blog Helpers – we've got a special treat for you on this last day of 2009: a guest post from Rachel at Shedding it and Getting it on vlogging! (Vlogging, if that term is new to you, would be video blogging.)
Rachel did a totally fun and smart vlog about vlogging [...]

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What can AdWords do for you?

You know those little text ads that show up on Google searches, webpages, and some blogs? You know, like the ad to the right?  (It's just a copy of an ad; in a real one you could click the link.)  For a long time, I figured these were expensive and off-limits to everyone except companies [...]

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Don't Let Them Slip Away

Have you ever found yourself away from home or not anywhere near your computer when a great idea strikes?  Sometimes awesome ideas for blog posts come to mind when you least expect it.  You could be driving home, standing in line or even sitting at your computer writing a post when you suddenly find yourself [...]

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Scoring free schwag

Image by klabusta via Flickr

Sure, I could have called this post "Getting Products for Reviews and Giveaways," but let's call it what it is.  Everyone knows that one of the perks of being a healthy lifestyle blogger is all the great free stuff you can get if you play your cards right.
Reviews and giveaways are [...]

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Editing Your Old Blog Posts

When a new reader comes to your blog and likes what they see, they'll probably stick around for a while and take a look at your most recent posts. After they hit up your about page they just might browse your archives to see what you've written in the past. Your regular readers [...]

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