Guide To Creating A Better Health Blog
The ultimate guide to health blogging is here! It began as a small project to answer blogging questions I routinely receive, and it became the comprehensive guide to creating a better health blog you see here. It is the culmination of three years of learning and experience blogging in the health niche.
In those three years I’ve seen thousands of health blogs come and go without making any impact, all because the bloggers were frustrated at not making any progress with their blog. This ebook will stop that from happening to you. It will give you the knowledge and the tools to grow your blog organically. After reading this blog you will never again wonder how to get more visitors to your blog or be confused on how to grow your blog’s readership.
What took me three years to learn will now take you three hours. Whether you are a beginner or a more advanced blogger looking to improve your current blog, this ebook will teach you how to create a better health blog.
What you can expect from this ebook, broken down by it’s sections:
Creating Your Blog
- Instructions and tips for choosing a domain name and web hosting
- Step by step instructions for creating a WordPress blog (the most popular blogging platform)
- Lists and links to the best plugins and themes to make your blog shine
- Tips for keeping your WordPress blog secure from hacking
The Art of Blogging
- Technical blogging tips to help you streamline your blog
- Writing tips to help you write a better health blog for your readers
- Blogging tips from top health bloggers
More Traffic and Readers
- Detailed descriptions of using social methods to gain blog traffic
- Tips for guest posting, commenting, using social media and more
SEO For Health Blogging
- Easy to understand explanation of search engine optimization
- Tips on how to utilize SEO to get more traffic to your blog
- Steps to use for your blog’s SEO
- Tips on what to avoid doing so you don’t get banned from search engines
Monetization Tips
- Explore the various methods to make money with blogging
- Tips for using advertising, product sales, services, and donations monetization
- Tips and advice from top bloggers to help you make more money from your health blog
Opportunities From Health Blogging:
- Discover the special opportunities available for health bloggers
- Learn how health bloggers received book deals and other opportunities
Action Plan
- Get an idea of what you can expect from blogging
- Create a plan of action to help you improve your blog
Featuring quotes and tips from top health bloggers: Caitlin from Healthy Tipping Point, Carla from MizFit Online, Erin and Jennipher from Fit Bottomed Girls, Matt from No Meat Athlete, Tina from Carrots ‘N Cake, Jennette from PastaQueen, Chris from Zen To Fitness, Roni from Roni’s Weigh, Esther from Faint Star Lite, Josh from World’s Strongest Librarian, Josie from Yum Yucky, and Shauna from The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl
The ebook has 65 pages stuffed with information to help you become a better health blogger. It’s the guide we all wish we had when we started.
Here are some of the reviews from bloggers who have read the ebook:
Reviews of the ebook so far include the words “awesome” and “epic.” If you need more proof, just check out the comments left below. This ebook is something every health blogger should read and put into action.
Right now in celebration of my moving to New Zealand the ebook is on SALE!
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As Mary’s boyfriend, I think she is freaking amazing at everything (because she is).
As a blogger, I think this book is fantastic. I’ve been blogging for over 3 years now, and while I have an understanding about most things in the book, this brings everything into an easily understandable, workable source. It doesn’t just explain what things are, but gives tips on how to go about incorporating them.
There’s things related to SEO that I had a shallow grasp on, but no solid idea on how to implement. Through reading this book, I can see how I can do those things now. I can also see how many blogs I visit could be improved, and how if I had this guide when I started I could be on a different path as a blogger.
How awesome do I think this book is? I bought two copies! And I didn’t even HAVE TO! :)
I’ve had a sneak preview of the e-book, and my eyeballs popped out from the awesomeness. Mary did an excellent job covering these topics. Whether you are new to blogging or have been around for awhile, you will benefit from this e-book. It is a one-stop shop of information to take your blog to the next level!
Congratulations, Mary!
This is awesome! I’m glad you put this out! I will have to re-evaluate my funds. There’s a 5K I want to run in Indiana in a few weeks and I still have to come up with registration. Damn.
I’m glad you’ve got an e-book out! Can I get your signature in July?
Of course! Not that it’s worth anything to have my signature. ;)
Do you think you’re limiting yourself with your niche market of health bloggers? For your next edition, you may want to pull the focus from health blogging and discuss blogging in general as a way to open up your available market. You may also want to consider writing about how to set up an account that isn’t WordPress, and how AdSense ads work.
I think this is a viable product, but that it’s a bit limited in scope. With a bit more fleshing out, this could go from eBook to a publishable product (or at least saleable articles to bigger sites/magazines).
Congrats on your accomplishment!
It’s limited in scope for a reason. I wrote it specifically with health bloggers in mind. There are plenty of other people out there that write about all those things you mentioned in general terms. I’m completely happy to let them do that forever with their more advanced/general products. :) My goal really isn’t to write about blogging for the rest of my life or to write a real book about blogging. My goal is to help health bloggers create better blogs, and that’s what this does.
Thanks!
Bought the book – again, congrats.
Roder, you make me laugh. I hope you enjoy it! Let me know. ;)
This book is awesome. I skimmed it in about an hour then sat down and read it slowly, incorporating much of it’s advice as a I went (still not done with the second read through). Having followed Mary’s advice on migrating to my own domain I was fairly sure it was going to be great, and it is. I even blogged about it tonight :)
Well done Mary, thank you for this addition to my virtual bookshelf, it is well written and informative.
Congratulations on another achievement. Knowing very little about all this blogging stuff I clearly need your ebook! Excuse my ignorance but how large is it to download? If I go over my household’s limit again heads will roll!
Sorry I didn’t see this comment earlier! The ebook is 9.77 MB. :)
Hi Mary,
I’ve just paid for and downloaded my copy and can’t wait to get reading!
thanks for writing this – I know it’ll help me take my blog from it’s current state of *meh* and turn it into something great. :)
Awesome idea Mary!!! Can’t wait to read it!!!!!!!!