I gave away free blog coaching calls to 10 health bloggers for two main reasons: 1) To learn as much as I could about what problems real health bloggers face, in order to make this blog better. 2) To learn if I could provide enough value to offer blog coaching as a paid service. I'm…
Author Archives: Matt Frazier
'A Merry Life' Guide to Creating a Better Health Blog
Guess what? I'm in an e-book! Mary, the blogger behind A Merry Life, took her three years of blogging experience and combined it with input from several well-known bloggers in the health niche to create A Merry Life Guide to Creating a Better Health Blog. (My contributions were mainly to the search engine optimization section.)…
How to Land a Guest Post on a HUGE Blog—Now
I recently got the biggest opportunity I've ever had in my year-and-some-change of blogging: I wrote a guest post for the hugely popular blog, Zen Habits. There's a good chance you've heard of it, even though it's not in the health niche, per se. With maybe 150,000 subscribers (as in 10 times even the largest…
10 Ways to Jump Start Your Blog By Next Week
Blog growth is rarely steady. You do something good, and traffic spikes. Then you get a little bit comfortable and the stats float back down to Earth, but to a permanently-higher level than before. Then you do something really good again, and traffic spikes even higher. And so on. The point, then, is to create…
And the Winners Are…
Well, my free coaching call giveaway has been open for a week, so I figured it was time to pick some winners! (The fact that I finished finals today may have had something to do with it, too.) Picking the winners was so hard. Without exaggeration, I spent hours on it. Forty-five of you entered…
Announcing 10 Free Blog Coaching Sessions!
So many people email me asking for blog advice. I usually end up getting excited, spending half an hour on the email, cramming WAY too much information into it, and probably giving the poor person more than they can handle at once. But they tell me it really helps. That their traffic goes up a…
How to Come Up with 24 Post Ideas in 20 Minutes
There's a trick for writing headlines that's so popular among copywriters, it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that everyone knows it. But then I remember: Not everyone studies copywriting. Not everyone even reads Copyblogger, where I first heard of the idea. But it goes beyond writing headlines. This trick is even more useful…
Health Bloggers Dish: Cory from ZestyCook.com
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 him simply…
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 bet—you can be a pretty damn good blogger without…
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…