Finding A Podcast Hosting Platform

A podcast hosting platform is a place to store your files (online) and keep the feed active that will tell your subscribers about the new episodes that become available.

The first thing you will be required to have is a domain name where the site will be located. Many domain registrars are available that can help you to register a domain name, usually for a small fee. Once the domain is registered, it is unique only to your show. You then set your domain to point at your podcast on the host you are using.

There are many different companies willing to help you host your podcast. Fees and services will vary, so you should shop around for the services you would like to have at a budget you can afford.

When looking for a host, the most important thing is to make sure that a lot of bandwidth and storage space is available at reasonable prices. Since podcasting deals with large media files, a lot of disk space is used in storing the files.

As your podcast becomes more popular and more people are accessing and downloading the files, your bandwidth use will increase. If you are limited to a certain number of files in storage or a certain level of bandwidth or downloads, you could quickly run out of options and have to spend even more money.

Once you have your domain name reserved and your podcast host determined (and your account established), you need to continue with the set-up of your podcast.

Your host will provide you with the DNS address of your podcast site. You need to be sure you set this correctly in order for the ISP's (Internet Service Providers) across the world to know where your podcast site is located.

DNS addresses can be set by going to the domain registrar from which you purchased the domain name. They usually have tutorials in helping you to correctly set your DNS information. If you have trouble, you can reach out to the support personnel of that site. Use the DNS information provided by your hosting platform and enter it exactly as instructed into your domain host settings.

After you have the DNS settings correct, it could take a few days before the domain is updated across all of the ISP's throughout the world. These updates are accomplished individually at various periodic times (some smaller ISP's may update once per day and larger ones every 20 minutes). You have no control over how fast this happens. But almost every registrar will tell you to give it 24-48 hours to be completed.

This is the only way all of the ISP's know where to find your specific domain.

Your podcast host will help you to distribute your podcast. The RSS feed link will help you to do this the most efficiently. As you send your RSS feed to different platforms (called "pod-chasers"), more and more people will begin to see your podcast and subscribe to receive the programming you upload to your podcast. The RSS feed allows your podcast provider to automatically let your subscribers know you have new programming available.

You also need to do your part in sharing information about your podcast. Posting information to your social media accounts will help you to spread the word about your new podcast. The more eyes that you can get looking at the existence of your podcast, the faster you will be able to grow.

If you choose your podcast hosting platform with these things in mind, it will allow you to focus on the recording of great programs and not have to worry about the details of how it will all work behind the scene.

Robert Thibodeau has been in online media since 2010. Between his online radio programs and his podcasts, he has accumulated about 4,000 episodes and conducted 600+ interviews in that time. He has helped many people to launch their own podcasts (many of which have earned numerous podcasting awards). He has a complete podcast training program, taking you from "Concept to Launch and Into Monetization." You can read more information on his training program at http://www.podcast-training.com You can also download his "Podcast Creation Checklist" for FREE under the "Services" tab on his website. He has also created a Christian podcast hosting and marketing platform at https://faithcasters.net

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Free SEO keyword analyzer tool!

This article is about a free website which has a great text analysis tool, that is very useful for anyone in the internet marketing game or who optimizes their website for search engine rankings. The sites address is www.textalyser.net this tool really does the job when it comes to analyzing either all the text on a website or just a certain portion of your choice. Giving you all sorts of great information about the keywords used in the site.

When you first enter the site you can either paste in a certain portion of text into the designated area, or you just type in the URL of the whole website you would like to have analyzed. Then you can choose as to what analysis options you would like to perform. Such as the minimum characters per word, whether you would like it to ignore numbers, and a few more. After you chose your options then you simply click analyze the text, thus returning you a complete very detailed analysis.

At the very top of your analysis it shows some basic text information like the total word count, number of different words used, sentence count, a readability index ranging from easy to hard. That little function comes in handy, because you definitely want the text of your page to be easy for the viewer to read.

The next and perhaps most important feature, shows you the occurrences and frequency at which the top keywords for your page show up. It ranks them from the number one word to whichever number you would like it to stop at. That is set at the options you chose before you analyzed the text. This particular feature is very nice to SEO's, seeing as that it lists the top words on a site and the density/frequency of which they appear. So an example of how this might help would be if you were targeting to have a certain keyword density for a particular keyword on your site. Thus enabling you to figure out whether to add more or less of that word to meet the density at which is required for the search engines to list you for that keyword.

Not only does this tell you your top ranking keywords it tell you the top word phrases, ranging from 2 word to 5 word phrases. It gives the count of how many times that phrase was used and also shows the frequency compared to the rest of the text on the page.

Anyone who is in the internet marketing field especially marketers who optimize their websites for search engine traffic can make great use of this free tool. I personally find great use in this tool for the process of my keyword research, which is essential for any search engine optimization campaign.

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Search engine specialist Steve Bis, is the author of the free search secrets newsletter and owns a unique web search tool that will help you find anything on the internet in 60 seconds, eliminating your search frustrations.

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