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Podcast SEO and

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Podcasts have become an extremely popular medium

for communicating and reaching large audiences.

Professionals, Businesses and individuals are now using

Podcast over blogging as it provides a powerful

reachable voice to the people. Every Podcaster wants

that their work should be heard by as many people as

possible and preferably rank higher in search engines for

specific keyword searches.

So how can you make sure that your podcast is

optimized for search engines? Here are 4 important tips

that you must take care of

1. Naming your podcast correctly is very important. Always include specific keywords in the

title.

For example- if your podcast is on ‘Autism’, then your title could be – ‘Autism Symptoms’ of

‘Autism Statistics’. A title with the keyword ‘Autism’ is not recommended as there are many

competing searches for that particular keyword. Be precise with the keywords helps as this helps

in gaining visibility in search engines.

2. ID3 Tags – Make sure your MP3 files have really good ID3 tags with rich and relevant keywords.

ID3V2 even supports comment and URL fields. The major search engines may not pick up the ID3 tags now,

but ultimately they will.

3. Podcast Directories – Submit your files to popular podcast directories .Podcast directories

receive thousands of visitors daily, so make sure that your podcast is submitted into the right

section and subsection. This will make it easier for other people to locate your podcasts. Some of

the top podcast directories are Podcast alley, Odeo, Podfeed.net, TECHpodcast.com, Podlounge

etc.

A list of podcast directories can be found here -

http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Directory.html

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4. Lastly, Transcription Service – Most podcasters Ignore this One. The most successful and

profitable ones, don’t. Transcription is nothing but converting the spoken audio into text. Having a

Text version helps tremendously in improving search engine ranking. This is because the Search

Engine Robot (Such as Google Spider Bot) can easily read and index text but not audio. The only

information about an Audio file that they can index are ID3 tags, which I discussed earlier.

Besides indexing, having a transcripts section of your podcasts is really good for listeners. People

may not have the time to listen to the whole audio. So they can read the transcripts as it is much

quicker.

So if you want your podcast to become more visible to people and search engines, then you need

to follow the above steps. If done correctly, then over a period of time you will begin to see the

fruits of you hard work.

Summary Podcast are growing in number day by day. Here are few tips to make your Podcasts

standout and Rank High for better visibility.

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