Services That Will Make Your Podcasting Easier


While every aspect of posting, hosting, and syndicating your podcast can be handled on your own website (if you have one), you may decide that it's easier, cheaper, or more effective to use the services of companies that serve podcasters and/or bloggers.

Liberated Syndication (www.libsyn.com)

Some podcasters appreciate the technical aspects of putting a show together, getting it up on the Web, and getting it syndicated. For other podcasters, however, technology is a necessary evil, something they put up with to create and share their shows. If you're in this latter group, you might want to check out the site for one-stop podcasting services.

LibSyn charges a monthly fee ranging from $5.00 to $30.00, depending on how large your podcast files are and how often you post new shows. All you have to do is create your podcast, and LibSyn will do the rest. For your monthly fee, LibSyn will provide you with

  • Storage for your podcasts

  • A blog "engine" that allows you to post show notes

  • RSS syndication for your podcast

For many podcasters, a big part of LibSyn's appeal is that it does not meter your bandwidth. As a result, when your podcast starts to become popular, you don't have to worry about getting hit with unexpected charges for the additional bandwidth.

Feedburner (www.feedburner.com)

Feedburner offers a variety of services for podcasters. As you might guess from the company's name, these services are centered around the creation and ongoing management of your RSS feed.

The most valuable of these services for serious podcasters is the generation of usage statistics, especially statistics about the overall listenership of your podcast. If your ultimate objective is to generate revenue with your podcast, the information that Feedburner generates will prove invaluable.

Feedburner also offers tools designed to ensure that your feed works with all the popular RSS feed readers and displays properly on RSS-enabled browsers.

Feedburner's basic service is free. Packages that provide more detailed usage statistics start at $4.99 per month (depending on the number of feeds you're tracking).

Podshow.com (www.podshow.com)

Podshow.com also offers a variety of services designed to simplify the posting, hosting, and syndication of your podcast. Package details were not available at press time.

Odeo (www.odeo.com)

Odeo also offers a variety of services designed to simplify the posting, hosting, and syndication of your podcast. Package details were not available at press time.



Absolute Beginner's Guide to Podcasting
Absolute Beginners Guide to Podcasting.
ISBN: B001U8C03Q
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 167

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