Could your recipe posts be considered 'piracy'?

Does this sound like you? You start blogging and post a few favorite recipes.  Maybe your smoothie, your oatmeal, your wrap.  But pretty soon, those run out, especially if you do most of your cooking from cookbooks.  You're cooking tasty, healthy food every night, and ...

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Ain't No Shame in the Game

Hey guys! Rachel here from Shedding It & Getting It with a little topic I like to call, “Ain't No Shame In the Game.” Today I’m talking about shameless self-promotion....and how self-promote without being shameless. I know it’s hard, but if you want your blog to succeed, selling yourself is crucial. HBH has already talked about ...

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The simple tweak that spiked my traffic 30%

It's Sunday morning.  I wake up, turn on my computer, and start reading a free PDF I've been meaning to get to, called Authority Rules.  A few pages into it, I'm so inspired that I immediately implement one of the concepts ...

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Why great blog posts deserve D's in English class

Everything they taught us in school about writing is wrong. Ok, maybe it's not wrong, by any technical measure.  But for blogging, it's certainly not right.  Pen an essay worthy of an "A" in high school, maybe even in a general-education college English class, ...

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Are boring headlines killing your blog?

Image by TimmyGUNZ via Flickr In my last post, I told you how excited I was about the prospects for my blog, No Meat Athlete, now that I've started writing ...

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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 ...

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Health Bloggers Dish: Lynn and Christy from The Actor's Diet

It's time for another serving of Health Bloggers Dish!  Today we have the pleasure of sharing the thoughts of the two fabulous ladies behind the scenes of The Actor's Diet blog - Lynn and Christy! [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Lynn and Christy from The ...

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Two great opportunities

Hey everyone, just a quick post today to let you know about two neat opportunities I found out about in the past few days.  One's a bonus offer, open for five more days, on an e-book that I personally own and highly recommend.  The other is an affiliate opportunity that I haven't seen on many ...

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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 ...

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All About the Vlog

Hey Health Blog Helpers - we've got a special treat for you on this last day of 2009: a guest post from Rachel at Shedding it and Getting it on vlogging! (Vlogging, if that term is new to you, would be video blogging.) Rachel did a totally fun and smart vlog about ...

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