Don't be alarmed — your Google reader isn't broken. After close to a year without updates, there really is a new post on Health Blog Helper. Where I've been Ten months ago, I decided to stop updating this blog. I did it so that I could focus all my energies on my main blog, No…
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Come See Me and 23 Other Bloggers Speak at FitBloggin in Baltimore
I have a confession: I'm pretty reserved and generally out of my element when it comes to networking, so I like to use whatever excuse I can to rationalize missing a blog conference that I know I really should attend. Healthy Living Summit? I'd love to meet the girls who put it on, but I…
3 Tips for Writing a Successful E-book
This is a guest post by Mary from A Merry Life. You can read more from Mary at her weight loss blog and her healthy food blog. E-books can be an amazing way to share your knowledge and make money to support your blog. They can also be a total time suck that earns you…
New Resource Sites for Health Bloggers
Whoa! Where did the past three weeks go? Has Health Blog Helper been abandoned? No, no, just simmer down. The reason I've been away is that I've been really busy with No Meat Athlete and with a new blog I started as well. It's called Thinking Bettor; it's a blog about gambling. (Put another way:…
A 10-Minute Trick to Make Your Site Sparkle (Even if You Can't Afford a Web Designer)
Ever see those fancy call-to-action buttons on sites and wish you could have them? I'm not talking so much about the social media buttons that you see everywhere, but rather the personalized buttons that say "Subscribe to XYZ blog" or "Buy Now!" Think about it. Isn't a button like the one below, which I use…
5 Surprising Reasons Why You Should Write Fewer Posts
There's a simple reason we see big bloggers posting every single day, or even three times a day. It's not because that's the best way to grow your blog's audience. It's because posting all the time is the best way to make money when your blog is already popular. Most health blogs are paid based…
Take Your Blog to the Next Level with Blog Coaching from Health Blog Helper
I'm proud to announce today the start of Health Blog Helper's brand new blog coaching service! A while back, I did 10 free, half-hour coaching calls with Health Blog Helper readers. The experience was overwhelmingly positive, and I've taken their suggestions and feedback to design several coaching packages to meet the needs of bloggers in…
How to Write a Sales Page (and Pretty Much Anything Else)
If you're a regular reader of this blog, chances are good you'll want to sell something on your blog one day. Even if you don't have anything to sell and think selling is evil, you can still learn a lot by studying the techniques of writing to sell. For example, you can look at your…
How $73 and an Idea Can Make You an Author
Sooner or later, every blogger thinks about writing an ebook or other information product. For most of them, that's as far as it ever gets. Fear is mostly to blame. Sure, maybe the idea isn't perfect yet, or the amount of work seems overwhelming. But take away fear, and all of the sudden these problems…
5 Things Sorority Girls Can Teach You About Blogging
This is a guest post by Rachel Wilkerson, from rachelwilkerson.com and the bloggers' blog Hollaback Health. When I was in college, I ran all the recruitment activities for my sorority and I loved it. It's a hectic time — the "parties" during which we met potential new members (PNMs) was a carefully choreographed, incredibly hectic…