Creating podcasts on PCs are easy, but they are even easier if you have a Macintosh using GarageBand 3.0+. Version 3 or newer of this popular software allows users to now create a “Podcast episode” which includes recording a narration; adding chapters, images, web links (or a video for a vodcast) for an enhanced podcast; and laying down background music with a feature called “ducking” which automatically lowers the secondary audio tracks when the predominant audio track is playing. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve heard all the buzz about podcasts and their video counterpart, vodcasts…But what is a podcast and why should you add them to your site?

Podcasting is an easy way to broadcast multimedia content online to a dispersed group of people, who are then able to listen whenever and wherever they choose using a variety of easily-accessible platforms. Podcasts can be downloaded automatically as soon as they are available and listened to using a variety of devices, including computers, MP3 players, PDAs, and even cell phones. What’s more, podcasts can be produced and broadcast inexpensively, and, as a result, has made this media channel accessible to the broadcasting masses. Read the rest of this entry »

Blogging marketing guru, Jack Humphrey (of the Friday Traffic Report), has created a great video tutorial on How to do a trackback to get more links and traffic. The video demonstrates exactly how to use trackback posts to get links from other bloggers and sites that use trackbacks. It gives you all the goods on this blog marketing secret and will have you doing trackbacks in a matter of minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

I know you’re frustrated! You’ve got a great blog but you’re getting spammed like crazy from the off-shore automated spambots that search out and pummel vulnerable sites with worthless, and many times disgusting comments. Maybe you’ve even had to change your options so that you moderate every comment before it posts to your site ;-(

Bummer! Read the rest of this entry »

So you’ve decided to create your blog on WordPress.com! In case you don’t know, Wordpress.com is a free, fully-hosted blogging platform that is built with the Worpress.org software. Because it’s a fully-hosted, you won’t need to find an hosting service, nor will need to set up the Wordpress software on your own. but be advised that the domain names of blogs hosted by Wordpress.com are “yourname.wordpress.com.” Read the rest of this entry »