PodCasting: a New Era for Traffic Generation

If you have not heard any thing about podcasting, then you are certainly missing out on a traffic system related to a very useful technological advancement.  It would not be an over-exaggeration to say that podcasting is possibly the most important technological trend since the advent of Internet. Popularity of podcasting is increasing day by day, and at a very fast pace.

Podcasting is Going to Stay Here
There are people who suspect that podcasting is becoming popular because of the new technology enthusiasm, and will last long.  I would ask them to recall the period of the last decades of the last century when the Internet was just taking off.  People expressed similar views regarding the Internet then, and obviously that has not been the case at all.  Furthermore, if you compare podcasting with the Internet, you will find that podcasting is actually growing in popularity at a faster speed than the internet initially did.  The point is, podcasting is a tremendous traffic generation system that is growing, and is here to stay.

After going trough this brief information, it is hopeful that you have become more curious about podcasting, and want to get a little more knowledge about the technology.   Let me give you a little history on the origins of this important traffic solution.

Basically, podcasting lets you download audio files from the Internet to your iPod or any other device such as an MP3 Player, Cell Phone, PDA, PSP or even to your computer. The word “pod casting” is derived from two words- iPod and broadcasting.  In short, it was a system for broadcasting audio files over the internet for use by IPod users.   Read more

Podcasting can be quite demanding

The Demands Of A Regular Podcast

I have recently started focusing on a new traffic system that uses podcasting as the traffic funnel.  It’s quite interesting and financially rewarding, but it also can be quite demanding.

There are several things to consider before starting a new [tag-self]Podcast[/tag-self].  Here is a step-by-step process to determine whether you’ll be able to keep up with the demands of a regular podcast.

1.    Across the top of a blank piece of paper write down five ideas you have that you might like to podcast about. (In another chapter will show you how to improve your content to gain subscribers, but for now this is a good place to start).

2.    Record how frequently you want to do each podcast. (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc.)

3.    Under each idea list all the sub-topics you would like to cover in your podcast. (For example, if you want to cover major league baseball, you might write down such items as recent player trades, highlights of recent games, things to watch out for in upcoming games, an analysis of player stats, a review of an event in the history of baseball, and a review of a baseball movie or book).

4.    In brackets, beside each sub-topic, write down the number of minutes it would take you to cover that in a podcast, and the number of minutes it would take you to prepare and research that information.

5.    Add up all the minutes it would take for you to cover those topics in a podcast. This will be the length of your podcast.

6.    Write that total above your idea.
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