Incorporating podcasts in websites can definitely attract more audience and open a new opportunity to broaden target market. And bloggers have an advantage to easily incorporate podcasting with their blogs because though podcasting is a new medium, it actually uses the same principle as with blogging. Podcasting and blogging both makes use of RSS in delivering or publishing their content onto the web.
You will just literally add audio files as podcasts to your blog by using the same RSS feeds that you have. The only difference of podcasts from your blog posts is that podcasts can be downloaded into portable media devices. This means that people can listen to your podcasts anytime and anywhere as often as they want.
There is no need to worry that you need to spend additional bucks to add podcast in your existing blog. If you manage to create and maintain a free blog, it will be also easier to you to diversify in podcasting at no added cost. There are so many free podcasting tools and software that you can use to add podcast on your blog.
When your audio file is ready, convert it to MP3 format before uploading it to your web server. You may now create the RSS newsfeed for your podcast by adding some descriptions to it and link it to your podcast in MP3 format. After this, you can now promote your podcast show on your blog site by using the usual orange ‘xml’ with a speaker symbol. So grab the advantage of being a blogger. Start using your knowledge in RSS feeds in creating podcasts and be one of the innovative blog sites.
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davidvogt // Feb 4, 2007 at 6:22 am
Your article is very informative and helped me further.
Thanks, David
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