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Start building the healthy blog, vlog, or podcast you always wanted
This list of health blogging resources is almost literally a step-by-step guide to successful blogging for 2022.
HINT: Bookmark this page and come back to it!
Want a step-by-step guide to successfully build your health blog in 2022? Here it is! #HealthBlog #HealthyBlog Share on XPlease use these resources. Whatever format your regular content is (blog, vlog, podcast), you can really rock it if you make a commitment and follow through.
You got this!
Step 1: Do you need a blog, vlog, or podcast?
Why quality content beats consistent content (stop blogging like it’s 2016)
Digital content strategy for wellness blogs
The awesome (and scary) news about the wellness industry
Business Excellence – Why you need it and how to get it
Why I blog (it’s for you… and me)
Successful blog tips for health & wellness pros
Step 2: Planning your healthy blog topics (strategy vs spaghetti)
Blog topic ideas
Struggling to blog? Here are 60+ health, wellness, and lifestyle topics
Categories ideas for your health blog
Choosing your next blog post topic (content strategy and editorial calendar planning)
Choosing a topic for your next blog post
What are your content marketing goals?
The pros use a blog strategy: Here are two things you need to get started
Health Awareness Calendar (gold for your wellness blog strategy)
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Step 3: How to research, create, and purchase excellent health blog content
Health research
3 unexpected biz benefits of researching health and wellness topics
How to do health research online
21 reliable resources to answer your health questions
What is a credible source of online health information?
How to research health topics efficiently
Behind the scenes of nutrition science
Health misinformation effect examples
Get savvy about supplement marketing
WTF does “correlation does not equal causation” mean anyway?
That time one study completely changed my mind about gut microbes
Skeptical of new health study?
Repurposing health blog posts
Where do bloggers get their content? (Create? Invite? Done-for-you? Outsource?)
The truth about done-for-you health content
How to customize done-for-you content in minutes
Repurposing content for your health blog
How do you update old blog posts? (And why you should.)
Curated content examples from health and wellness blogs
3 things to help you blog during the pandemic
Creating new content for your healthy blog
How to write an article for your health blog – Part 1 (Quantity)
How to write an article for your health blog – Part 2 (Quality)
Step 4: Getting traffic to your healthy blog (social media, SEO, etc.)
How much of my blog should be promotional?
How to grow traffic to your blog
Do these 3 things before you optimize your (health) blog post
There’s more than one keyword method to get found online
Simple SEO tips: A complete search engine optimization checklist
Health blog images – How to make them work for you
The top 4 mistakes people make with their website copy
No, I’m not giving you a backlink (or feedback)
Step 5: Ultimate health blogging resource
I created the Ultimate health blogging checklist to help you attract ideal clients and get readers to:
- Find your blog posts
- Click to visit your website
- Read it and love it
- Start to know, like, and trust you
- Do the action(s) you’ve called for (your call-to-action)
- Sign up for your newsletter
- Become a customer or client
Enjoy using this health blogging checklist to the fullest potential to rock your blog and turn it into a content marketing machine!
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Don’t have time to read it all? Download the bullet points in the checklist now.
Conclusion
Take these resources and use them.
This time next year, you will be glad you did! And I will too!
Signing off and toasting: To using these health blogging resources and rocking your blog, vlog, or podcast in 2022!
Over to you
Is something missing from this list? What’s stopping you from rocking your healthy blog? Please tell me so I can help you – I want your 2022 health content to be amazing!
Originally published Dec 2017, updated with more awesomeness March 2019, May 2020, and February 2022.
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I’m Leesa Klich, MSc., R.H.N.
Health writer – Blogging expert – Research nerd.
I help health and wellness professionals build their authority with scientific health content. They want to stand out in the crowded, often unqualified, market of entrepreneurs. I help them establish trust with their audiences, add credibility to their services, and save them a ton of time so they don’t have to do the research or writing themselves. To work with me, click here.
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