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 ...
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 ...
How to Come Up with 24 Post Ideas in 20 Minutes
There's a trick for writing headlines that's so popular among copywriters, it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that everyone knows it. But then I remember: Not everyone studies copywriting. Not everyone even reads Copyblogger, where I first heard of the idea.
Health Bloggers Dish: Cory from ZestyCook.com
It's been a long time since we've done an episode of Health Bloggers Dish, the series where Health Blog Helper interviews a top blogger in the food and fitness niche. In an interview that was started a while ago but only recently completed, Alison and I interviewed Cory from ZestyCook.com. (You might know ...
3 Dead Giveaways You're a Hack Writer
I'll be the first to admit it---when it comes to writing, I'm a hack. When I say "hack," I'm talking about the kind who has to fake being a real writer, not the (much worse) kind who steals other people's stuff. Lucky for me---and you, I ...
The Blue Man Group Secret to Blogging
The Blue Man Group has a secret. It allows them to make just as much money as the other top Las Vegas musical acts and comedians, while working way less. While Siegfried and Roy and Celine Dion were working night in and night out, the guys behind the Blue Man Group got to take it ...
Let's Get Ready To Stumble!
Hey guys! Rachel from Shedding It & Getting It here with a guest post! Sometimes, you follow the "rules" of improving your blog like creating great headlines and writing homerun posts. But then you check your stats and see, Oh...no one's reading them. That can be super disheartening. When you've got ...
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 10 Commandments of Food Photos
Let's face it: Most of us didn't get into blogging because we love taking photos of our food. I, for one, have no idea what most of the buttons on my camera do, much less what an f-stop is. Luckily, it's not all that hard to take a decent food photo. Sure, you could get really ...
Use Landing Pages to Highlight Your Best Posts
A high percentage of Health Blog Helper's readers are feed readers, so chances are, you haven't seen the much-improved layout and logo of the site yet. Why not visit the page and take a look? And once you get here, you'll see that I've created a mini-course called The 7 Mistakes New Health Bloggers ...
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