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Blogs and Podcasts: A Crucial Combination

Blogs and Podcasts: A Crucial Combination. by Andy Wibbels http:// GO blogwild.com/ http://andywibbels.com/ http://andymatic.com/. What We’re Talkin’ ‘Bout*. Blogs and podcasts in tandem Getting more search engine traffic Making money with your podcast’s blog. * Willis. Who the heck?.

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Blogs and Podcasts: A Crucial Combination

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  1. Blogs and Podcasts:A Crucial Combination by Andy Wibbels http://GOblogwild.com/ http://andywibbels.com/ http://andymatic.com/

  2. What We’re Talkin’ ‘Bout* • Blogs and podcasts in tandem • Getting more search engine traffic • Making money with your podcast’s blog * Willis

  3. Who the heck? • Andy Wibbels (Chicago, USA) • Author of Blogwild! (GOblogwild.com) • Blogging for 6 years • Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Business Week, USA Today, Wired • Consultant and trainer • Easy Bake Weblogs, Six Figure Blogging, Podcasting Bootcamp, RSS Essentials, Keywords Essentials, WordPress Essentials

  4. Blogs and Podcasts • Central hub to your personal media empire • Collect feedback, solicit comments • Media and press info • Between podcasts • Contact page • Post audio/video/media • For newbies and Luddites • All the non-audio stuff • Make money (more later…) • Quickly updated and indexed (for now…)

  5. Blog Traffic • Search skills maturing • People that know you already • People that ‘stumble upon’ you • Findability (cloud) • Obvious • Promotability • Measure your traffic

  6. Money • Indirect income – extends your existing efforts • Direct income with alignment of • Readers (SEO, inbound links, etc) • Content • Advertising • Pay per click • Contextual • Product reviews/placement

  7. Contextual Widget. Chitika Lets you host little ‘emini-malls’ that provide interactive affiliate referrals on your site. https://chitika.com/ Traditional Affiliate Programs Amazon Associates. http://amazon.com/associates/ Commission Junction. http://www.cj.com/ Clickbank. http://www.clickbank.com/ Impression Based Ads. Pay you every time the ad is displayed. FastClick. http://fastclick.com/ Tribal Fusion. http://www.tribalfusion.com/ Other Methods Tips Jars and Donations. Amazon offers this with their Amazon Honors program and PayPal offers donations as well. RSS Advertising. FeedBurner and Pheedo Sponsorship. Get a dedicated, targeted audience and companies will pay top dollar for visibility. Contextual Text Ads. Text ads that are specifically aligned to the content and topic of your blog. You get payed when your readers click on ads. Google AdSense. http://google.com/adsense/ Yahoo! Publisher’s Network (still in beta testing). https://google.com/adsense/ Outgoing Links. You can host small text links on your blog that link to other sites. This is used by business to increase their search engine ranking and the number of incoming links. Text-Link-Ads. http://www.text-link-ads.com/ Regular Text Ads. Advertisers buy ad space on your blogs by the week or by the month. BlogAds. Organized by category. Ads include text and graphics. http://blogads.com/ AdBrite. Text ads network where advertisers rent space on your blog by week or month. http://www.adbrite.com/ Multiple Streams of Blogging Income

  8. Closing Rants • Clean, clear obvious design • Own your permalinks • Build your audience (prove it) • Say-able domain names • Have a newsletter or email notification • “Are blogs going to be passé?”

  9. I Need Your Help! I’m prepping my next course on podcasting and would love your help in making sure it is as complete and comprehensive as possible – please go to podcastingbootcamp.com

  10. Get the Feed Add to Google Add to My Yahoo! Add to Pageflakes Add to Bloglines Add to Newsgator Add to AOL Add to Pluck Add to Rojo Add to Netvibes Add to MSN Raw XML Get the Podcast Add to iTunes Add to Odeo Add to Podnova Add to Yahoo! Podcasts Raw XML Get the Newsletter Subscribe Earn Cash Join Affiliate Program Contact me andy at andywibbelsdot com Keep in Touch:

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