Image by klabusta via Flickr Sure, I could have called this post "Getting Products for Reviews and Giveaways," but let's call it what it is. Everyone knows that one of the perks of being a healthy lifestyle blogger is all the great free stuff you can get if you play your cards right. Reviews and…
Author Archives: Matt Frazier
Getting the most out of StumbleUpon
If you've been blogging for a little while, you may have experienced something like this: You log into your blog on a normal day, expecting to see what you always see. Instead, there's a huge spike in traffic, two or three times your normal pageviews level! You click to find out more, and there it…
Categories vs. Tags
Image via Wikipedia It took me a while to understand the difference between categories and tags. For the first few weeks of my blog's life, it was a mess, organizationally speaking. I used to tag every post with "vegetarian," for example, even posts that had nothing to do with food! It all clicked when I…
Backin' it up
How do you make a post about backing up your WordPress blog sound exciting? Answer: you don't! But with a WordPress security update just released (2.8.6), we are reminded that backing up your self-hosted blog is a necessary evil. Luckily, there's a plugin that makes the process decidedly un-evil, which I'll tell you about in…
More Plugins!
Hey guys and gals! A lot of you have told me you appreciated the WordPress plugins list I posted a while back. Since I wrote that post, I've discovered a few more plugins that I don't know how I lived without, as well as remembered an important one that I forgot to list in the…
The Need for Feed
If you're reading this post, chances are you know what a feed is. It's likely that you're reading this as a feed right now, rather than actually visiting the site. But as important as feeds are to blogs, most bloggers know almost nothing about how many subscribers they have or how to control what their…
How often should you post?
Change of plans! I was all set to write a post this week about how to use Feedburner to make your feed user-friendly and track your subscribers, then Gena from Choosing Raw came along and did that awesome interview! I found Gena's answers so thought-provoking and relevant to what I've been thinking about recently that…
Finding Your Shtick
I'm in the middle of reading Hugh MacLeod's Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity for the second time. I picked it up because Seth Godin wrote a nice review, and I pretty much do whatever Seth Godin tells me to do. Anyway, the reason I mention this is because the other night I…
Your 'About' Page: About Time You Updated It?
If you're anything like me, your About page started as an afterthought. You wrote your first post, published it, then quickly filled in a few lines on the About page before anybody could notice it was blank. Maybe you came back later and added a photo and a little backstory, but after that it went…
Using Twitter to Grow Your Blog
Hi, Health Blog Helper readers! I’m Hallie and my blog is Healthy Twists, where I write about my adventures in cooking, fitness, weight loss and/or maintenance, and sometimes, puppy parenting. When Matt put the call out for a guest blogger to write about Twitter, I jumped at the chance because I love Health Blog Helper,…