Welcome to Health Blog Helper.  My name is Matt, and yes, I'm a health blogger.  I write the blog No Meat Athlete, and I co-write the column column Running Shorts on the True/Slant network.

I tend to go crazy with analyzing stuff, devouring whatever information I can get my hands on to try to do whatever I'm doing better.  This is good news for you.  Because after reading some other health blogs and learning everything I could about what bloggers in other niches are doing, I realized there's a LOT that many of us aren't doing. Search engine optimization, affiliate programs, different advertising sources than you-know-who, social media marketing on Facebook and Twitter, and effective ways to make your content compelling, even magnetic.

When I started learning all these powerful strategies and realized that nobody in the health niche was using them, I wanted to tell the world.  But No Meat Athlete wasn't the place to do it.  And for that purpose, Health Blog Helper was born.

There's tons of great information on other blogs about blogging.  But not everyone has the kind of time to subscribe to them, read their posts carefully, and separate what works in the healthy living niche from what doesn't.  Plus, I consider myself far from computer illiterate, and even I find some of the "how-to-blog" blogs intimidating!  Maybe it's just that we health bloggers would rather spend our time outside on a run, sweating at the gym, or cooking great food than sitting at a computer reading about blogging.

And that's why I'm here. With Health Blog Helper, I present the best of what I'm learning in ways that health bloggers can relate to, and from angles that apply specifically to healthy lifestyle blogs.

I hope you find the information here as useful in growing your blog as I have.  I'm learning more every day, and my health blog continues to grow as I constantly strive to make it better.  And every time I find a new technique, you'll be the first to know about it.

Please, feel free to contact me with whatever questions come up, or just to say hello.