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 doesn't always work. We get them anyway. So…let's talk about how to respond! The moment we…
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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 exaggeration, I spent hours on it. Forty-five of you entered…
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 to say…
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…
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 the importance of strong headlines. When you write your headlines,…
Who are you blogging for, anyway?
Image by purpleslog via Flickr 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…
Let's Give Them Something to Blog About
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 yourself struggling…
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…
Google Analytics 101
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…