Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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 ...

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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 happy to say ...

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'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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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How Do You Respond to Negative Blog Comments?

Rachel Wilkerson writes her own blog and is editor of the bloggers' blog Hollaback Health. This post is the second in a series by Rachel on negative comments. We've talked about how to avoid negative comments, but sometimes, it ...

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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 ...

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9 Ways to Avoid Negative Blog Comments

Rachel Wilkerson writes the blog Shedding It and Getting It and is editor of the bloggers' blog Hollaback Health.  This post is the first in a series by Rachel on negative comments. Comments are sort of the agony and ecstasy of blogging. Comments let us know that people are reading and have something ...

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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 few ...

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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 ...

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