The Ultimate Guide to Podcasting

A comprehensive guide for podcasters to setup their own podcast, submit it to iTunes and other directories and integrate it into their blog. Additional resources to audio editing, content, related conferences, books and tools that make things easier or save cost are also included.

This guide is for people who have a podcast or think about starting one and NOT for listeners to podcasts. There are good guides for podcast audience available, for example: The podcast listeners guide by Mathew Honan. You can also check out Apple iTunes, PodcastAlley.com, Digg Podcasts or any of the other podcast directories available on the internet.

Podcasting – once reserved for technical types or those with the financial backing to hire a podcasting specialist – has become mainstream and is no longer limited to geeks and early adopters. With this popularity and concurrent availability of tools, it has become easier to publish podcasts (although it is still not as easy as configuring a VCR).

Thanks to over 100 million iPods sold and the improvements to software and tools to make access and consumption of podcasts easier for regular people contribute to a steady growth of people who tune in to podcasts on a regular basis, which is soon reaching double digit percentages of the US population.

The increasing popularity of podcasting has fueled the number of available podcasts and the competition for audience share. Just having a podcast is no longer enough to attract listeners or engage subscribers.

Learn more about setting up your own podcast and promoting it on the internet and integrate it with your existing blog (if you don’t have one yet, create one, even if it is just for the podcast itself).

Check out the “The Ultimate Guide to Podcasting“

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Update on DefCon 15 Videos

Update on the DefCon 15 videos. After the initial 47 of 125 videos were all other remaining videos uploaded to Google Video as well, in addition to some other goodies for all the DefCon fans out there. Read the full details here.

Enjoy the 125 videos and spread the word!

Search Engine Optimization Article at Wikipedia Doesn’t Deserve Attention

Trying to make Wikipedia better, by working the system from the inside, as a trusted member and editor at Wikipedia, is itself not only honorable, but wise. It’s not a battle many would wish to fight. It’s an article about SEO worth it? Wikipedians are adversaries many prefer to simply ignore.

Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz is one of them. He also states what he things about how Wikipedia should work and does actually work.

Here’s how it should work:

• Read something about SEO on Wikipedia
• Think to yourself – huh, I wonder if that’s accurate
• Investigate the author a bit – are they reliable, generally honest, trustworthy, experienced?
• Investigate the subject matter – spend some time in the popular, well-regarded SEO blogs, forums and read some industry resources
• Come back and re-read
• If you still disagree, consider bringing it up in the discussion and be sure to mention that you’re not an industry expert, cite your sources and be respectful
• If you think you’ve got a real point, go ahead and make your edits

Here’s how it actually works:

• Read something about SEO on Wikipedia
• Note that it doesn’t match with your prejudiced, pre-conceived notions of SEO as spam
• Make a bunch of edits and deletions
• When pressed by industry experts, dismiss their sources as lacking credibility
• When pressed further, find Wikipedia rules that work in your favor – since you can’t argue from experience, use your powers of derision and dismissal combined with bureaucratic wordplay to frustrate and demoralize your opposition
• Find other inexperienced people with similar biases towards SEO and recruit them to your cause

Mhhh… True or Not True?

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Laws Every Blogger and Webmaster in the U.S. Needs to Know

Blogging has become a veritable land mine of potential legal issues. This resource covers (in plain language) what a webmaster needs to know about paid post disclosure, deep linking, thumbnails, stolen content, domain names, private data, comment liability, tax law, newsletters, journalist shield laws, and user-generated content liability *cough*.

The Laws
1. Whether to Disclose Paid Posts
2. Is Deep Linking Legal
3. The Legal Use of Images and Thumbnails
4. Laws that Protect You From Stolen Content
5. Domain Name Trademark Issues
6. Handling Private Data About Your Readers
7. Who Owns User-Developed Content and Can You Delete It
8. The Duty to Monitor Your Blog Comments, and Liability
9. Basic Tax Law Issues in Blogging
10. Limited Liability Laws and Incorporating
11. Spam Laws and Which Unsolicited Emails are Legal
12. Are Bloggers Protected from Journalism Shield Laws

Thanks for the list Akiva Directory

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Dude, what can I do to help?

When was the last time you gave something to someone? You have a talent. I don ’t know what it is. Maybe you are a great designer. Maybe you are a CSS guru or a PHP pundit. Maybe you are a marketing genius or have the gift of gab. Whatever it is, you have something to offer. When was the last time you offered it?

When was the last time you said …

 “Dude, what can I do to help? “

Nice post by SEO-SCOOP that reminds us that money is not everything and that giving for free and help somebody can make a change and also tends to come back to you in unexpected ways when you are the least prepared for it (in a good way). You don’t have to be a religious man to understand this principle.

You might think that this is all hogwash in this world where money reigns and power corrupts. Just try it once, just for the fun of it.

You might be in for a surprise.

Cheers!

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Reality Check – There Is No Such Thing As Easy Money, Also Not Online

Despite that some people, especially the expensive -get rich quick- eBooks selling ones, want to make believe otherwise, trust me when I say that there is no such thing as easy money and easy to gain fortunes. Also not on the Internet. You don’t believe me? Okay….

Here is reality check for all the people out there that still believe in the myth about how easy it is to gain fabulous riches and make huge fortunes on the internet without hard work. Stop chasing a ghost, start thinking for yourself and start working on realizing your dreams via hard work and persistence. Some tips to get on the way don’t hurt though.

Here are a list of a lot of down to earth and practical tips that actually make sense. No Blah blah, but the real deal.

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Eight Internet Marketing Blog Lists – Covering over 500 Blogs

If you are looking for Blogs to the various types of internet marketing there are several ways to find them.

Blog search engines like Technorati are a good source to discover blogs. Also blog directories can be a good source, but to be honest, there are so much blog directories out there that you will have a hard time finding one that has a good selection of internet marketing related blogs, let alone categoriezed by subject.

Here are some additional blog listings by topic:

Search Marketing

1. Search Marketing Blogs List by Lee Odden – Over 300 Blogs to Search Engine Marketing and Optimization.

2. SEO Blogs and News Portals

3. Search Engine Marketing/PPC Blogs

 Affiliate Marketing

4. Affiliate Marketing Blogs List by SuperAff.com

5. Bumpzee Affiliate Marketing Social Network and Blogs – List of included Blogs

6. Affiliate Marketing, Contextual Advertising and Affiliate Networks Blogs at Cumbrowski.com

7. AffiliateMarketing Buzz – Aggregated Feeds. See List of included Blogs to the right 

Internet Marketing (Email Marketing, Web Analytics, Marketing in General etc.) 

8. Internet Marketing Blogs at Cumbrowski.com

Plenty of Blogs to explore. If you are more into Podcasts and Video, check the Resources here.