Hey guys! Rachel from Shedding It & Getting It here with a guest post! Sometimes, you follow the "rules" of improving your blog like creating great headlines and writing homerun posts. But then you check your stats and see, Oh…no one's reading them. That can be super disheartening. When you've got great content that you…
Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Most Important Blog Stat You've Probably Never Heard Of
Let's say you come up with a knockout post idea, and just as important, a killer headline. You write the headline first, write a strong post around it, and publish. How do you know if it all worked? A few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of strong headlines. When you write your headlines,…
The 10 Commandments of Food Photos
Let's face it: Most of us didn't get into blogging because we love taking photos of our food. I, for one, have no idea what most of the buttons on my camera do, much less what an f-stop is. Luckily, it's not all that hard to take a decent food photo. Sure, you could get…
Use Landing Pages to Highlight Your Best Posts
A high percentage of Health Blog Helper's readers are feed readers, so chances are, you haven't seen the much-improved layout and logo of the site yet. Why not visit the page and take a look? And once you get here, you'll see that I've created a mini-course called The 7 Mistakes New Health Bloggers Make. …
Could your recipe posts be considered 'piracy'?
Does this sound like you? You start blogging and post a few favorite recipes. Maybe your smoothie, your oatmeal, your wrap. But pretty soon, those run out, especially if you do most of your cooking from cookbooks. You're cooking tasty, healthy food every night, and you want so badly to share those recipes (that aren't…
Ain't No Shame in the Game
Hey guys! Rachel here from Shedding It & Getting It with a little topic I like to call, “Ain't No Shame In the Game.” Today I’m talking about shameless self-promotion….and how self-promote without being shameless. I know it’s hard, but if you want your blog to succeed, selling yourself is crucial. HBH has already talked…
The simple tweak that spiked my traffic 30%
It's Sunday morning. I wake up, turn on my computer, and start reading a free PDF I've been meaning to get to, called Authority Rules. A few pages into it, I'm so inspired that I immediately implement one of the concepts on my blog No Meat Athlete. A half hour later, I notice that traffic…