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…
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…
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…
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…
21 Tips Health Bloggers Need to Know Now
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…
'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 Feel Fantastic About Your Next Negative Comment
Rachel Wilkerson writes her own blog and is editor of the bloggers' blog Hollaback Health. This post is the third in a series by Rachel on how to deal with negative comments. Now that we've discussed how to avoid negative comments and how to respond when you get them, I want to talk about one…
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…