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Is
Podcasting Right For My Website?
In order to determine if podcasting is right
for your website, you will need to know if your web hosting
account will support it. Most will in some way or another.
You will need to find ways to determine whether podcasting
is the right form of media presentation for you.
If you already own a website, you
may want to check your web hosting control panel, or open your site building editor and
see inside what provisions are made for podcasting. Some web
hosts provide a built-in code that you don’t even have to add.
In this cased all you would need to add is each individual
media file that you would want displayed on the pages of your
site. Your listeners will be able to stay tuned as they subscribe
to your podcasting feed which you will also provide for them
as well.
Many
podcast feeds are in RSS format, so most web hosts usually
support them. You sometimes can also upload your MP3 files
to a quick podcast generator through some hosting providers.
Go Daddy is an example of a web host provider that offers a
very easy-to-use system. You sign up for a podcasting website
hosting package for under 5 dollars a month, and once you do
all you do is insert the MP3 files that you upload to your
web hosting account into the places that they tell you do and
you are done.
You can also find ways to generate customized feeds by going
to a site such as WebPasties.com, which allows both trial and
paid usage of their HTML code creating systems. It is a very
easy three-step process. You fill out the form and click a
button and the code is generated automatically. It is very
similar to the type of syndication created with the use of
JavaScript for which is used for many popular affiliate advertising
programs.
If you follow one or more of the following suggestions, you
will find podcasting to be a very easy process. You also have
to make sure that the audio productions that you upload to
your podcast system are compatible with the pages of your site
as well.
Viewers who visit your site will be able to view your podcasts
by signing up for a free or paid podcatcher. It is not necessary
for you to own an iPod in most cases, because of the availability
of a variety of ways in which podcatchers can be read. Most
podcatchers are generated in RSS feed format so they most likely
will generate which will be easy for people to read. Along
with a podcatcher a standard MP3 player works well to read
many online productions.
People who sign up to view your podcasts can also subscribe
to them, and you can even send live podcasts by way of e-mail
in some cases. If your e-mail is compatible with the format
to send out feeds in this way it will be an extra bonus for
you.
Podcast feeds are right for your website for the above reasons,
and more. Additional ways to tell if podcasting is right for
you would be to examine the possible reasons for displaying
podcasts on your site:
- Generate a Home Page Welcome Message
- Provide Music Content
- Produce Online Educational Materials
- Provide Product Demos
- Create Documentaries
- Distribute Historical Presentations
- Host Online Virtual Travel Tours
- Display Sponsor Advertising
- Update People with the Latest in Sit News
You have quite a few reasons why you may want to use podcasting.
The other reason is that it is very quick and easy to use,
and can be listened to over and over again. The using of podcast
media distribution is becoming more and more popular.
Soon podcast could possibly become as widespread as is the
use of the radio, the DVD, or even the personal computer. Most
podcasts are compatible with nearly every system, including
Macintosh and Windows.
If you want to find out more about podcasting on your site
you can read more articles, which cover this subject. You can
find these articles through site search or through searching
in your favorite Internet browser. You can also ask local computer
and electronic geeks for more information as well.
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