Posted on October 25, 2008 by admin

owH to create a Podcast? What you really need is just a recording software + microphone+your computer! In this article, I will introduce to you some easy ways to create your own podcast, and it is very easy!

Some of the software tools that you need:

Tool #1 – Sound / Audio Recording Program – Highly recommended – Audacity. This is a very easy to use software and the best part – It’s FREE! You can easily edit, change the playing speed, volume and adding file on your audio.

Tool #2 – Good Microphone – You need microphone with decent quality or use the webcam with build in microphone! The sound must be clear, don’t use low quality microphone, or you might turn your audience away!

Tool #3 – Use Podpress plugin for your blog – An audio plugin that allows WordPress blog to play audio file. Unfortunately it does not support blogger and typepad blog, you need to find an audio service that provide some kind of JavaScript for integration.

One of the greatest benefit of using podcast is make your visitor stay at your blog as long as possible, giving more “quality” feel to the search engine that your blog is really good. After recorded your speech, you just need to upload it to a server for streaming, you can just create a folder on your wordpress server, under the wp-content/uploads of your blog.

If you want to do an Interview podcast, you need to Install skype on both Interviewee and Interviewer’s computer! Run the recording software during conversation and you are done.

The key to make your own podcast is not how, but rather what content you are offering, a podcast that too long will bore your audience. What you have to do is keep them shot and sweet, and provide interesting information at the same time, enough to attract your audience attention and get them revisit your blog frequently.

Let me show you another convenient way – how to create a Podcast on autopilot – Add Sound To Your Blog!