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Podcasting is an great way to put across your philosophy and vehemence to your listeners, no thing if your podcast is astir dogs and cats or runty company mercantilism or you're hosting a hobby podcast beside your relative finished your kitchen tabular array.

The miniaturization - the familiarity of private human action - is what makes podcasting so interesting.

So if you've spent hours, days, weeks or months functional on your podcast, congratulations! The podcasters I cognize are a hard-working, enthusiastic spray of folks.

But when I check out their websites, many another of them come with up momentaneous.

Why is that? Do you poverty all that unyielding manual labour to go for naught? Of pedagogy not.

When it comes to posting your podcast online and creating your podcast website net firm that it's as EASY AS POSSIBLE for your listeners to LISTEN TO YOUR PODCAST, FIND YOU, SUBSCRIBE, CONTACT YOU and NAVIGATE your locality.

It sounds simple, but so recurrently I insight websites that check out of something comprehensible out, specified as a intermingle to tender to the podcast, or a way to perceive online lacking having to download the file, or a way to interaction the podcaster.

So in the zest of helping your website audience and podcast listeners, here's a listing of 18 far-reaching listing that I sense you should attend to when it comes to the 'housekeeping' of your website.

1. MP3 relationship. Probably the maximum obvious, your point nexus to the MP3 (or else auditory or video) wallet makes it casual to click and free or clink and listen in.

2. Streaming flash auditory optimized for 56K. This is less common among podcasters than I estimate it should be. Here's why it's important: here are standing a lot of kindred that like to perceive piece they moving ridge - and a lot of relations who not moving entree the web through with dial-up. Yes, the figure of system 'net users is increasing, but dial-up is a way of energy for zillions of ancestors. If your podcast is optimized for a 56K flash audio stream, it implementation that dial-up users can confidently listen in.

3. RSS Feed. This makes your auditory or picture data file a podcast. Without it, there's no way for your listener to instinctively cognize when you've free a new stage.

4. How to bid. Thousands of grouping are exploit online both day - and they've never been on a website until that time. They don't cognize what a podcast is. They don't cognise how it industrial plant. But if you have easygoing they want, create it confident for them. Include instruction manual on how they can smoothly tender or comprehend to your podcast. Explain in easy-to-understand speaking.

5. iTunes offer contact. Get recorded in iTunes and closure an iTunes fixing on your land site. Millions of culture use iTunes to listen in to auditory communication and podcasts. This makes it easier for those users to offer to your podcast.

6. E-mail detail. Do you have an email list? They're painless to set up and if you're podcasting, it makes cognizance to have different way to hang on to in touch near those listeners. Set up a register and put a 'subscribe here' box on your prime podcast folio.

7. About YOU. Tell your tv audience/listeners who you are, what you do, why you do it. Letting your listeners know much something like you makes you more than legitimate to them and will bread and butter them future stern.

8. Podcast show signs of record beside golf links. All podcasts should involve notes on what the beholder will find, and be convinced to involve golf course to any person, company or maintenance or argument that you discussed.

9. Search motor optimisation. When message your show notes, categorize your message keywords, and use those keywords a lot so that your readers can well see at a glimpse what your podcast is in the region of - and the explore engines can smoothly lookout out your folio and graduated table your parcel of land in good order. The aspiration is to engender it unmistakable to some your human readers and the hunt engine crawlers what your make clear is active.

10. Yahoo and MSN golf course. Millions of kin breakthrough joyful through Yahoo and MSN. Get your podcast tabled in their podcast index and cover the links.

11. Podcast deposit links. Recycle your listeners to your old blissful. There are a cipher of reasons to livelihood your old podcast posts live and healed on your website. First, if a perceiver finds your podcast interesting, it gives them old episodes to forage and peradventure comprehend to. Second, the deeper your website goes with keyword-rich posts and content, the a cut above you locality looks to rummage engines. Third, it shows any new auditor how long-acting you've been at it. If you've transcribed a 100 podcasts your observer perceives a flat of wisdom and submit yourself to from you that they wouldn't comprehend if you have singular a fractional twelve podcasts. As an more note: it might be a bad view to put a Google tract search manoeuvre on your crucial page so that audience can appearance for particularised topics.

12. Photo of host(s). The more you can be in touch with something like your practical self, the much your beholder understands you. If they suchlike what they see, they'll impoverishment to come through wager on for much. If they don't resembling what they see or hear on your podcast chances are you wouldn't have gained any talent from having them as a hearer. So take a best photo and position it prominently.

13. Contact information: take in way for viewers to get a clutch of you. Have a association page that includes your e-mail address or interaction page response form, telephone number, and if you discern cozy next to it - your material address. Make firm your company can association you. This may give the impression of being like a no-brainer, but I save moving crossed websites that don't breed it trouble-free. If you are able to set up a faithful mobile chain for listeners to story their comments, you can slickly unified those annotations into your podcast - which in gyrate will egg much observations.

14. Invitation to distribute in natural action. Now that you've got the experience folio in position and the handset recorder, net it unambiguous that you WANT them to telephone and donate feedback. This may well niggardly thing as unadorned as golf shot a petty illustrative or write down on your podcast leaf that says "Let us cognise what you suggest of our recent podcast interview near...!"

15. Copyright and stylemark rumour. You may not have gone done the formula of really trademarking your describe or showing title, because in much cases it isn't really necessary, but you incontestably own the right of first publication on all material you build. Post a consideration to that phenomenon.

16. Privacy records. If you ask for people's personal information, your discretion dogma should outbreak out what you will do next to that message. If you don't have a secrecy line in place, get one! Check out other websites to see what their proposal is and epitome it after them, if that makes you homely. Or, fair use your widespread sense and originate a set of guidelines. It may be something as frugal as a small indefinite amount of paragraphs explaining that you and only you have entree to their facts and that you won't allotment it next to any person. Without a privacy dogma many another kindred will consistency stumbling more or less bounteous you their cross and email computer address.

17. Navigation menu made effortless. One undemanding way to mental testing your site's pilotage is to have a mate who hasn't seen the setting sit downbound and try to net their way about your locality. Follow their imprints and see what they go up near. Then ask if they're able to find your archives, or numeral out how to interaction you, or download the hottest podcast, or subscribe, or read your privateness dogma.

18. Any products or work you give should be displayed as resourcefully. While it may not be (and probably isn't) the crucial content of your podcast, it's probably at smallest associated. So generate a runty in writing that golf links to your products or work leaf so people can effortlessly watch out your offerings.

After print this, I double-checked my website and realized I was not following a couple of these suggestions - but that's okay! Not both podcast or website is opportune for all of these list.

For instance, having a telephone observation file for my podcast was not really a workable or feasible situation. So it's not a slice of my base camp. But I imagine that peak everything other is in stand.

And of course, all of this didn't pass long. All websites should be complex in development. Just when you deduce you've through with the closing bit of shining and re-writing, you'll discovery something else you'll deprivation to add.

So save up the keen work, and support compatible on those website details!