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[glen]

Hi everyone,


What is podcasting?

In the last few days I have just discovered podcasting. For those of you who have not heard of it before, its basically recordings of internet-based radio shows that have been saved as mp3 files. The mp3 files are not accessed directly. Rather, you access the radio station podcasting feed using appropriate software and then the software downloads the radio shows for you. The podcast software will subscribe to the radio stations you select and then you can get the program to search for new radio shows that you have not yet listened to.

So what does podcasting have to do with adsense?

There are several radio stations popping up on the net that relate to affliate marketing and web page design. Many of these radio stations will have talk back radio sessions where they discuss internet advertising, including discussions of adsense!

What podcasting software do I need?
I am currently using the apple iTunes program which seems to work OK. However there are plenty of other programs (some open source) that are available.

Here is a list of radio stations that I have subscribed too -

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WebTalk w/Rob Greenlee
WebmasterRadio.FM Combined Show Podcast
WebDevDesign - 21st century Web Development & Design
Affiliate Guy Podcast - The Models, Technologies and Gurus
The Marketer's Podcast
Photoshop Radio
Aardvark Abductions -Marketing Training that works: Adwords
Digital Photography Tips From The Top Floor
Webmaster Cookbook
Sam's Web Dev

And here are same sample radio program topics -

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#34: Adding and discussing Google Adsense
001 - Introductions
10 Tips & A Domainers Year in Review
10 Tips for Domain Monetization & A Chat with David Warmuz
A Chat with The Domainer of The Year
A Chat with Yahoo! & Monster Commerce
A Google Q & A, etc...
A Look into Marshall Simmonds: Managing & Optimizing Large Amounts of Content  Pt. 1
Ad:Tech Special
Adam Curry: Web Talk with Rob Greenlee
Adtech Chicago Day 2 - Midday Update
Adtech Chicago Day 2 - Party Patrol & Preview of Day 2
Adtech Chicago Day 2 - Wrap Up
Adtech Chicago Final Wrap-up
Adtech Chicago Interview with Adtech Chair Susan Bratton
Adtech Chicago Interview with Chrysler VP Jeff Bell
Adtech Chicago Interview with Dorian Sweet, VP Creative Director of Agency.com
Adtech Chicago Interview with Mark Lopez of AOL Media
Adtech Chicago Interview with Michael Moore, director of interactive marketing at Purina Pet Care
Adtech Chicago Interview with Ted McConnell, Procter & Gamble's manager of interactive marketing and innovation
Adtech Chicago Update 1
Adtech Chicago Update Wrapping up Day 1
Advertising Versus Public Relations
Adwords Copy Writing Seminar- with Steve Blom, Scott Bosley, and Michael Yared
Affiliates, Merchants and Fraud...
All About the .mobi Extension
An Indepth look into the new Online Jobs Search Engine...SimplyHired
An Oldtimers Perspective
Another Successful Day at AdTech
Are you taking advantage of the best syntax of marketing?
Are your customers smelling with their ears?
Asshole of the Month !!!
Bart Feder: Web Talk
Bill Goss - The Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive
BlackHat Questions Abound
Blending new Publishing Technologies for The Rockies
BlogAds: A New Advertising Medium
Blowsearch TownHall Meeting Pt. 1
Bob Cox: Web Talk
Bubbler: Easy Authoring for Dynamic Web Sites
Chargebacks, Fraud Scrubbing, and a Domainers Perspective!
Chatting with Noel McMichael, Vice President of Search Marketing for Digital Impact.
Click Fraud
Danny & SE Guru Chat about today's Feed News, Blog News and Size Wars !!
Danny & SE Guru Review SES San Jose & Chat about the latest cool Feed News & Blog News!
Dave Van Dyke: Web Talk
David Coursey: WebTalk
Do you know how your customers think?
Does your marketing message make sense?
Domain Law with Ari Goldberger & Domain News Updates
Domain Names, Accountants & the IRS
Domain News & A Chat With SnapNames
DomainMasters Inaugural Show
DomainMasters Live from SES San Jose
Don Katz: Web Talk
Doug Kaye: WebTalk Radio
Exploring The Billing World w/ Mark Lender
Feed News, Google China, RSS Ads, Yahoo Sandbox & more
Feeds, Modules & Wireless
Gary & Detlev talk about SES Parties, SE Advertising and more!
Georges Harik: Gmail
Good Rules of the Road Q & A
Haiko interviews Malcolm Cowley from Buy.at
How to be F.A.I.R. on your customers.
How to become a Chief Evangelist in Online PR & Marketing!
How to structure your marketing.
Indepth Interview with Matt Cutts of Google
Insight into IPowerWeb
Interesting news from Yahoo!
Interview with Successful domainer, Howard Hoffman
Introduction of Gary Price
It's Firing time!
Jimmy Wales: Web Talk Radio
Kurt Huang: Web Talk
Live Coverage: AdTech
Live Search Engine Strategies 2005 Broadcast
Local Search Tradeshows, SearchChamps, and more...
Mark Ramsey: WebTalk
Matching Companies & People For Mutual Benefit
Matt Cutts of Google Talks With Ms. Write At AdTech
Meet the .Travel Extension
MonsterCommerce TownHall Meeting Pt. 1
Monte explores the sale of Business.com
Monte Interviews a Much Desired Guest
Name
Oilman & BakedJake Together Again !!
Oilman with special guest host Detlev Johnson
Online Auction Agency Explored: Kompolt
Online Classifieds Explored
Oodle... The Search Engine for Classifieds
Paid Search, Employee Relations, Feed News
Photoshop Radio - July 18, 2005
Photoshop Radio - July 25, 2005
Photoshop Radio - July 8th 2005
Photoshop Radio - updated August 10, 2005
Photoshop Radio - updated August 4, 2005
Pre-SES & an SEO State of the Union
Profit Doctors Show #2 Rebroadcasted from Tan-Talk am 1340 radio
Pt 1. Indepth with Anthony Muller
Pt 2. Indepth with Anthony Muller
Pt. 1: Insight into Ecom Expo and IGive.com
Pt. 1: Promoting People and Properties
Pt. 2: Insight into Ecom Expo and IGive.com
Rich Kahn of BlowSearch speaks with Ms. Write
Robert Scoble: Web Talk
RSS & Feed News, Vertical Search, Employee Relations
RSS Advertising Explored
SEO Site Clinic
Server Issues & A Little Google Affiliate Discussion
SES San Jose Day 2 Review of Search Night Off and More!
SES San Jose Interview with Greg "WebGuerilla" Boser
SES San Jose Interview with Jim Lanzone
SES San Jose Pre-Show
SES San Jose Review of Google Dance and Preview of Day 3's Events
SES San Jose Wrap Up
SES San Jose Wrap Up of Day 2 & Preview of the Night's Events
Short-term Conversion vs. Long-term Value
Show #33: sign up for Google Adsense and reviewing terms
Show #35: Little brother’s 12th Birthday
Show #36: Jowl’s Motivation
Show 1 Is Out the Door
Tech Term Surfer 001 - cache
tftf38 - Resizing for the Web
tftf47 - Reflections Soundseeing
The Affiliate Guy Podcast Free Version #3 - Affiliate Program Pays >$1000 A Pop and Puts You In Control
The Coverstory Crew Chats with Author Matt Basak
The Dissection of a Google Update
The First Show !!
The Future of the Internet & All about Chris Chena
The Hurdles of Optimizing for Dynamic Websites
The Model, Technologies, and People Behind CBMall and SearchFeast.com - AffiliateGuyPodcast (Free Version) 0202
The Power of Pluck
The winner of the first "Asshole of the Month" !!!
The Yahoo Extravaganza PT.1
The Yahoo Extravaganza PT.2
The Zappos.com Success Story
Tod Maffin: Web Talk
Todd Cochrane: Web Talk
Tony Winders: Interactive Marketing Expert
Topix.Net & Local News
Traffic West Wrap-Up & a Chat with Steve Sturgeon
WebDevDesign 2005-0516 - Podcast Intro v1.0
WebDevDesign 2005-0810 - Macromedia Studio 8 & InterAKT free extensions with DW8 upgrade
Webmasterworlds World of Search: Pubcon New Orleans Podcast
Welcome to The Marketers Podcast
What Makes a Good Merchant & a Good Affiliate?
What's The Story with Kiwi.com?
When it comes to marketing the question is the answer.
Will a niche make you rich?
Wrap-up Coverage of Adtech
Yahoo Audio Search, the Google Chef and More !
You Always Have Other Options

If you here of any other good stations please let us know,


All the best, Glen

[Falcon]

never heard of it before...guess if i had an ipod i would know these things

[glen]

Hi falcon,

I don't have an ipod either so i took a while to catch on! I have listened to a few of the shows above (while working on my websites at the same time) and some of them are fairly entertaining. They won't change your life but they are a good way to hear about affiliate marketing while you do something else.

Cheers

[glen]

hey guys, i just got a new mobile phone that has a mp3 player and so i thought i would revisit affiliate marketing radio and listen to it while on public transport.

And its great!

One of the best shows I listened to so far was by a guy called Jeremy Schoemaker aka ShoeMoney. His radio show is called "Net Income" and I listened to an interview of another chap called Lee Dodd. Anyway it was quite informative until my battery ran low and the sound cut out.

Here is the link:

http://www.webmaster...x.php?showId=43

[despot]

That was a little bit boring. Especially the commercials, lol.

Anyway, the best way to do well at marketing is not to be interested too much in marketing. Thinking about that, how many time do people waste just for looking up stuff like adsense tips etc, which are not actually going to lift up their revenus more than a few dollars.

And that guy is crazy. Did I hair it right - one hundred friggin' million US dollars for such an ugly-looking site?
That's insane.

[glen]

ah i didn't get a chance to look at his sites...so you reckon he was exagerating his earnings? i will (eventually) make some notes here about the sites that were big earners...i think there was one about cruise ships that was supposed to be a big earner. i will have to double check.

one tip that i liked was the discussion of the many ways of encouraging people to sign up to a forum.... since i have a few forums this is quite relevant to me. one idea i liked was to offer people free ebooks etc when they join up. i think this would work well and i might do it on this site to encourage new members to join up.

kevin - do you know of any free ebooks i can redistribute for such a purpose?

[despot]

Well, I'm not sure.

However, look at his site.
Is it just me or does that site really look awful?

I'm not a designer, etc, but couldn't probably get worse than that.
By the way: who would name their dating site plenty of fish? Well, if it was a fishing site - maybe. But now... It seems if he had named it plenty of morons it wouldn't make much of a difference.


Anyway, I've listened to another episode. It's interesting, how they manage to get that many visitors and earn six-figure numbers from scratch...
Gotta start a community or something.

[glen]

i agree that http://www.plentyoffish.com/ looks crap. really with all the money the guy is making you would think he would employ a graphic designer

[despot]

Talking about that podcast, well, I have listened a bit more.. and well, it's quite decent.
Serves as an inspiration for me.

Subsribed to it.


Thanks for the link.

[glen]

here are two of the wbesites that were mentioned by Lee Dodd. They both do very well apparently.

http://www.cruiselin...forum/index.php
http://sprintusers.com/

The sprint users forum is the bigger one of the 2. It had 190 posts in the last 24 hours which is pretty good. Not quite digitalpoint.com scale but still pretty big! They claim to have between 22,000 and 25,000 unique visitors each day.

One concept they use to promote their sites is sell premium membership. The membership benefits include:

Recognition logo (near name)
Bigger Avatar Size
More Private Message Storage
More Uploads
Colored User Name
SU$ Earned
Less Advertisements
@SprintUsers.Com Email Address
Blog Space
VIP Forum Access
SU Shirt Coupon
Arcade Tournaments & Prizes
Images in Signature
SprintUsers.Com Ebook COMING SOON!
Free Custom Avatars

I think I have a lot to learn!

the websites dont actually look that pretty (there is TONNES of ads!) but I guess if you have a huge membership you can afford to be a bit ugly.

the sites don't rely purely on adsense. they really have a big mix of revenue sources.

[glen]

i haven't had a chance to listen yet but someone recommended to me the radio show of Won Li Do Sho (pronounced Juan Lee Dough Show). The discussion focuses on forums I am told:

http://www.forumtren.../won-li-do-sho/

I am just downloading some of the shows now. I can listen to them in the train tomorrow.

Cheers, Glen

[glen]

i actually listened to episode 6 of the Won Li Do Sho and it was a waste of time! the presenters just like the sounds of their own voices and crack the lamest jokes ever.

also i listened to an episode of SEO rockstars and it was pretty crap. they were totally unprepared.

i came across a new one today at http://communityadmi...castnetwork.com (but i haven't listened as yet)

[glen]

i listened to a show from the "domain masters" channel on webmasterradio.fm. It was an interview of Bruce Clay who runs bruceclay.com and is apparently the person who first coined the phrase "search engine optimisation".

The interview was well run and professional. Though there was not a huge amount of practical tips. The main useful concept that was mentioned was the idea of "siloing" your web content. In other words, if your site relates to 3 or 4 separate topics, you "silo" your site into discreet areas that only talk about 1 topic. And you avoid mixing concepts together on the one page.

e.g. if you had a website about SEO and domain registration (2 topics), you would not talk about the 2 ideas on the same page. this would benefit your site in the search engine rankings because it would be clearer to the search engine that you are focused on the given topics.

the actual mechanics of how to "silo" were not explained in detail but we were told that the http://www.bruceclay.com site has done this and so i guess we can simply examine the layout of that site to work out how to do it properly.

if you have a look at the sitemap you will get the idea:

http://www.bruceclay.com/sitemap.htm

cheers, glen

[AWDIS]

...has the podacsting helped?

Hello, and nice to be here!