Free Podcasts How-To for Blog Exposure and 27 Podcast Submit Sites

Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Blogging, Podcasting

Tags: Blogging

Give your blog a voice with free podcasts and extend your blogs exposure and readership.

What is a Podcast?

A podcast is a series of audio media files, usually mp3’s, which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer. So basically a podcast is the voice RSS of your posts and allows people to listen to your blog via computers, iPods, and basically any device that can play MP3’s. If you are not sure what RSS is, here is a complete guide – What is RSS?

Basically, free podcasts give visitors another way to subscribe to your blog, and more exposure via free podcasts submission sites, where people go to search for and listen to podcasts.

How to Get a Free Podcast

A basic and free way to turn your blog into a podcast and get free podcasts is with Odiogo. They will convert your blog posts to podcast voice posts and do it’s free. There are other free podcasts conversion services, but this is the only one that actually played my posts without error and breaks in audio, so I prefer Odiogo.

They also provide a Podcast Wordpress Plugin that adds a “Listen Now” button to your blog posts (see it at at the top of the post) which allows visitors the option of listening to your posts and anoptional “Subscribe to Podcast” button for the sidebar.

More important, the podcast gives more exposure to your blogging via the many free podcasts sites where people go to find podcasts, including Apple iTunes! Many of these podcasts sites have very high membership and traffic!

Also, bloggers use podcasts in innovative ways on their blogs, Yaro Starak of Entrepenuers Journey, wrote about What is a Podcast and How Can I Use One?, where he discusses how much influence the podcast has in engaging listeners, how podcasts can beat out radio stars and how he creates entire podcast shows for his blog.

How Effective is a Podcast for Bloggers?

Well, take a look at the popularity of ipods, the membership and traffic of the podcast sites, how many high traffic blogs produce podcasts and even weekly radio shows and also the fact that SEO Book Keyword tool shows a daily search estimate of 1,090 for the keyword “podcasts”, that’s 32,700 searches a month.

It will take about an hour of your time to set up a free podcast and submit to these websites, and it will spread your content further and give it more exposure so what do you have to lose?

27 Free Podcasts Submission Sites

Once you get your podcast created on Odiogo, they will send you an email with your control page and your personal podcast url. Save this email so you can access your control page in the future, and then use your podcast url to submit to these sites. I spend some time researching and these are the best ones that I found:

Apple Itunes - Note: You must have and be logged into an iTunes account to submit your podcast.

Small Business Podcasts

Podcast Alley

Podcast Bunker

Tech Podcasts – Tech subjects only

Happy Podcasting!

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Hi
Great insights. This is really such nice post…
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Reply 01/20/2009 at 7:13 am
Logo Design

There is a really big list of places you can submit your podcast to here: http://www.podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm

As far as tools to use. I’m a fan of the Podcasting Bundle that includes FeedForAll and RecordForAll – http://www.recordforall.com/podcasting-bundle.htm

Have a great day!

Reply 01/20/2009 at 9:33 am
- JR
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  Thanks for the resources!
  
  Reply 01/20/2009 at 3:48 pm
work from home ideas

I’ve heard and read about podcast but I don’t see many such subscription on people’s blogs. Thanks for sharing this useful information.

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Reply 01/20/2009 at 10:37 am
- Ben Pei
  
  @work from home ideas, Shoe money has it! But its really not very common tho..
  
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  Reply 02/05/2009 at 11:15 pm
Sacramento Weddings

Yet another reason to get “broadband” internet connection……..LOL

Reply 01/20/2009 at 12:13 pm
- JR
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  LOL, so true Matt!
  
  Reply 01/20/2009 at 3:48 pm
Taris Janitens

Hey Jr!!! I was wondering where you disappeared to!! Thanks for the heads up on these sites too!

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Reply 01/20/2009 at 2:42 pm
Andy@buy mlm leads

Hi JR,
Am I correct in understanding that Odiogo will take my text and convert it into audio with a voice that sounds a lot better than mine (sometimes it sounds like I have a garbage can on my head when I try to record things)? And it’s free?
Isn’t technology absolutely amazing?
Thanks for the information.

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Reply 01/20/2009 at 5:15 pm
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  @Andy
  Yes it is!
  
  Reply 01/20/2009 at 5:45 pm
Dennis Edell

This is certainly not the first blog article I’ve seen on this services. However it is the first time I’ve downloaded the plugin and seriously considered using it.

Thanks for the awesome effort in going into the podcast aspect of it, including the time it took to produce the links!

The voice itself annoys the hell outa me lol, but all the extra “goodies” you can get/learn from it make it all the more worth trying.

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Reply 01/20/2009 at 5:15 pm
- JR
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  @Dennis Edell
  Thanks, actually you can use a recording device and record the broadcast yourself, and produce your own podcast but that takes the correct equipment and coding for the listen button embbeding, which is a whole other post…, I for one am cool with this service for now anyway.
  
  Reply 01/20/2009 at 5:47 pm
  - Dennis Edell
    
    @JR,
    
    Oh absolutely, I’m cool with it too in that case. Doing all that “just for a post”..I think not. LOL
    
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    Reply 01/21/2009 at 11:12 am
Ben Pei

Hmmm what kinda podcast can we make if we are doing MMO niche? lol

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Reply 02/05/2009 at 11:15 pm
Brad Callen

it’s very serious for the companies and people affected by the economic slow down and, more specifically, the waning interesting in “pod casting” as it becomes more integrated into “media.”

Reply 02/20/2009 at 12:03 am
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Reply 03/31/2009 at 1:46 pm
Albert

Thanks for the list. Pod casts aren’t as huge as article directories, and etc, however I was looking for this. Bookmarked

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Reply 04/04/2009 at 3:57 pm