Marketing Confidential » Blogging http://marketingconfidential.com/private Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:54:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Podcasting For Links and Traffic http://marketingconfidential.com/private/podcasting/podcasting-for-links-and-traffic/ http://marketingconfidential.com/private/podcasting/podcasting-for-links-and-traffic/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:20:17 +0000 John http://marketingconfidential.com/private/?p=216 How would you like to convert each of your blog posts into a podcast?

Odiogo offers a free, ad supported, service that reads the text of your RSS feed from your blog and converts each blog post into an audio file suitable for podcasting. This service not only gives your blog a voice, it also allows your blog posts to be made available as iPod ready audio files. The more channels you can utilise to distribute your content, the better.

The Odiogo service is easy to install and, once you are up and running, you can submit your podcast to a number of  specialist podcast directories. I've been impressed by the approach used by the Pod Submitter service which will distribute your podcast to 55 directories free of charge.. but with a degree of reciprocation. Check it out and you'll see their intelligent approach to viral marketing!

One of the primary benefits of creating and distributing a keyword based podcasts is the boost in link popularity that you can gain. However, an often overlooked benefit is that very few of your competitors will be creating and distributing podcasts and your links will probably rank quite highly for your keyword phrases. And, of course, you will gain traffic and "listeners" who search for relevant content to play on their iPods.

As well as converting your blog posts, you can also record your own podcasts using the free Audacity audio recording application. If you're short of ideas, you can create a recording based on your own articles or articles to which you have private label rights. Again you can use Pod Submitter to distribute your podcast to their list of directories.

]]> http://marketingconfidential.com/private/podcasting/podcasting-for-links-and-traffic/feed/ 0 Who Are You Blogging For? http://marketingconfidential.com/private/blogging/who-are-you-blogging-for/ http://marketingconfidential.com/private/blogging/who-are-you-blogging-for/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:14:24 +0000 John http://marketingconfidential.com/private/?p=95 When I can spare the time, I like to read what other people in my niche market are doing. Blog's can provide you with all sorts of information. For some reason some folks seem to think that they can share their innermost secrets on their blogs. What baffles me about a lot of bloggers is that their posts are almost all about them and their interests. It's almost as if they are talking (or writing) to themselves. As a reader I feel excluded.

Probably like you, I'm much more likely to become readers when a blog provides something that I want. As a casual visitor I may initially read a blog because I find training, answers to specific problems, entertainment, or something else that interests me. I don’t want to read about you, your girlfriend, your cats, your kids, or your catastrophes - unless you're a very close friend and it's a persona blog.

There's an art in writing good blog content.. ...{+}

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