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I'm as excited about my blog as I have ever been. Readership is growing quickly, incoming links are up, Google searches have spiked, and I'm finding new ways to monetize that search traffic every day. More important than any of that though, I am loving every minute of it. My fun [...]
So you've got this new blog and you're pumped to write all sorts of amazing, insightful posts. Like at beginning of most fun things in life, the awe and the wonder, the ideas and the jokes don't seem to stop coming. But then you settle in and get comfortable and suddenly you find [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Much like Feed Burner, Google Analytics is a very powerful tool that can tell you a lot about the traffic your site gets.
How many unique visitors is your blog getting? How long are your readers sticking around once they get there? Are the large majority of your readers coming in through search engines or referring [...]
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 I [...]
Hi there Health Blog Helper readers! My name is Allison, and I blog about my experiences as a new runner who is trying to lose weight by eating whole foods at Eat Clean Live Green. When Matt asked if I would be interested in writing a guest post, I thought this would be a great [...]
I am what you might call a compulsive learner. When I do something new, I immerse myself in it, at the expense of all other things. And blogging, for me, has been no exception. In the past six months, I've brought home (and yes, even read!) armloads of books from the library, on blogging, on [...]
Welcome to Health Blog Helper! This is my place to share what I've learned about how to make a food & fitness blog engaging, influential, and even profitable.
