It's been a long time since we've done an episode of Health Bloggers Dish, the series where Health Blog Helper interviews a top blogger in the food and fitness niche. In an interview that was started a while ago but only recently completed, Alison and I interviewed Cory from ZestyCook.com. (You might know ...
Author Archives: NoMeatAthlete
3 Dead Giveaways You're a Hack Writer
I'll be the first to admit it---when it comes to writing, I'm a hack. When I say "hack," I'm talking about the kind who has to fake being a real writer, not the (much worse) kind who steals other people's stuff. Lucky for me---and you, I ...
The Blue Man Group Secret to Blogging
The Blue Man Group has a secret. It allows them to make just as much money as the other top Las Vegas musical acts and comedians, while working way less. While Siegfried and Roy and Celine Dion were working night in and night out, the guys behind the Blue Man Group got to take it ...
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 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 really ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why great blog posts deserve D's in English class
Everything they taught us in school about writing is wrong. Ok, maybe it's not wrong, by any technical measure. But for blogging, it's certainly not right. Pen an essay worthy of an "A" in high school, maybe even in a general-education college English class, ...
Are boring headlines killing your blog?
Image by TimmyGUNZ via Flickr In my last post, I told you how excited I was about the prospects for my blog, No Meat Athlete, now that I've started writing ...
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