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…
'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 engine optimization section.)…
How to Land a Guest Post on a HUGE Blog—Now
I recently got the biggest opportunity I've ever had in my year-and-some-change of blogging: I wrote a guest post for the hugely popular blog, Zen Habits. There's a good chance you've heard of it, even though it's not in the health niche, per se. With maybe 150,000 subscribers (as in 10 times even the largest…
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 comments and how to respond when you get them, I want to talk about one…
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 so on. The point, then, is to create…
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 doesn't always work. We get them anyway. So…let's talk about how to respond! The moment we…
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…
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. But it goes beyond writing headlines. This trick is even more useful…