What can AdWords do for you?

You know those little text ads that show up on Google searches, webpages, and some blogs? You know, like the ad to the right?  (It's just a copy of [...] Continue Reading…

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Don't Let Them Slip Away

Have you ever found yourself away from home or not anywhere near your computer when a great idea strikes?  Sometimes awesome ideas for blog posts come to mind when [...] Continue Reading…

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Scoring free schwag

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Sure, I could have called this post "Getting Products for Reviews and Giveaways," but let's call it what it is.  Everyone knows [...] Continue Reading…

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Editing Your Old Blog Posts

When a new reader comes to your blog and likes what they see, they'll probably stick around for a while and take a look at your most recent posts. [...] Continue Reading…

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Getting the most out of StumbleUpon

If you've been blogging for a little while, you may have experienced something like this:  You log into your blog on a normal day, expecting to see what you [...] Continue Reading…

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Health Bloggers Dish: Whitney from Whit's Getting Fit

It's Health Bloggers Dish Monday here at Health Blog Helper! Today's blog chat comes from the fabulously fun Whitney at Whit's Getting Fit!
Whit's Getting Fit is a food [...] Continue Reading…

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Categories vs. Tags

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It took me a while to understand the difference between categories and tags.  For the first few weeks of my blog's life, it was a mess, organizationally [...] Continue Reading…

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Where is the Link Love?

Did you know that Google and other search engines pay attention to the number of incoming links to your site?  The more websites that link back to you, the [...] Continue Reading…

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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 [...] Continue Reading…

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Quick Tip: Your Best Work

We've all written posts that were better than others.  Posts that you felt really great about when you published them and probably still feel great about today.
If you post [...] Continue Reading…

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