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How do you come back from a long #podcast hiatus and get back into your podcasting rhythm? It will take some work, but here are my recommendations. The post How to Revive Your Dormant Podcast [episode 393] first appeared on The Audacity to Podcast®.

Redirects come in multiple types. When misused, they can cause some major problems, as even happened to me recently. Here are some warnings to watch for whenever you use redirects.

There comes a point in every podcast when it's necessary to say a URL. If for nothing else, at least your podcast's own home on the Internet. (And you should have a domain for your podcast!)

AI has rapidly advanced for content creation. But should you actually trust it? With this potential comes some crucial warnings for using AI in podcasting.

Inside jokes can offer fun potential for your podcast, but also some potential costs. Here are some brief things for you to consider as you engage with your podcast audience.

Monetization is not the only profit you can get from podcasting! Here's why I think you should put P.R.O.F.I.T. first in every aspect of your podcast.

Apple provides a portal for you to submit and manage your own podcast called Podcasts Connect. I suggest you check these 8 things right away!

You might have heard people talk about IAB podcast stats, measurement guidelines, compliance, and certification. Here's what all of that means, and whether it even matters!

Transcripts have long been promoted as ways to make your podcast more findable and accessible. But it's only recently that podcast transcripts have become actually useful!

Podcasting 2.0 is revolutionizing podcasting for podcasters, audiences, and developers. Here are what I think are the best features you should be leveraging, if you can.

Get the latest top recommendations for the best podcast-hosting providers, whether you're just starting or you're wanting to upgrade your podcasting tools!

If your podcast is listed twice in Apple Podcasts or another podcast directory, STOP! Don't do anything about it until you read or listen to this!

After sharing multiple considerations for refreshing your podcast branding, it's time to wrap it up with the big question: how?

The Audacity to Podcast is back! And before jumping back into the content to help you grow and improve your podcast, I want to share three things I'm really excited about!

I have three important things to quickly share with you while you wait for my next episode about how to refresh your podcast branding.

After considering the benefits of refreshing your podcast branding, you need to decide when it's the right time to do so. Here are some suggestions!

Thinking about refreshing your podcast branding? Before I discuss the "when," let's consider how your podcast might benefit from a branding refresh.

Bonus content can be a fun way to engage and reward your loyal podcast audience, either publicly, through an opt-in, or in a premium subscription.

The right category can help your podcast get discovered and featured. But which categories are best for your podcast when there are so many?

Internet marketers have a new crush on video and many podcasters are starting to feel pressured to create video content. But do you need to add video?

There are many ways to earn income through podcasting: affiliates, sponsorships, sales, and more. Disclosing when you get compensated is not only the law, but it's also a good way to earn your audience's trust!

Some podcasters think everything a successful podcaster does directly contributes to their success and not holding them back. But that's false!

As you podcast consistently, you'll build up a back catalog of episodes. But should you keep all of those episodes available?

Podcasting 2.0 introduced a new way for your audience to support your podcast by sending micropayments. This is usually measured by satoshis (abbreviated as "sats"), which are one hundred millionths of a Bitcoin. As such a small portion of cryptocurrency, many people might wonder whether the effort is even worth the return.

Your podcast description gives you SEO benefits and the vital opportunity to convince a potential audience to try your podcast.

I've teamed up with Dave Jackson, from School of Podcasting, to discuss the future of podcasting! We seek to inform you about trends, Podcasting 2.0, and more to help you make your podcast better for yourself and your audience, and we work to explain things in an understandable way. Listen to The Future of Podcasting...

While there can be many great podcast microphones, depending on your needs, here are what I think are the BEST podcasting microphones.

Whether you're just starting your podcast or you've been podcasting for a while, you might find some things easier by using better tools. Here are the audio-editing apps I recommend most for podcasting in 2023.

Here are the words to avoid so you can have the best podcast title that will clearly communicate to potential audiences and stand out in searches.

Podcast cover art is usually the first and most prominent thing people will see about your podcast! So should your photo be in the cover art?

Whether you're a guest on someone else's podcast, you're promoting your latest episode on social networks, or you're making marketing materials for your podcast, you might be wondering which link you should use to share your podcast.

If you ever have a guest on your podcast, you might be wondering where to put their name. Here are some things to consider for your own podcast.

Does it matter what time of day you publish your podcast episodes? Yes! And here are some tips to help you pick when that should be.

Should you publish your podcast episodes on a particular day of the week, avoid the weekends, publish on popular days, or something else?

Enhance the experience for your audience by making unique artwork for each episode. But you need to adapt to how each app might display the image.

If your podcast uses seasons, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here's some guidance to help you decide!

If your podcast uses episode numbers, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here's some guidance to help you decide! But I'll give this warning: it's, unfortunately, more complicated than it should be!

There's no episode this week. Instead, I'd love for you to try my own egg nog recipe for whatever you want to pay!

Your podcast episodes don't have to "expire" once the next episode is released. With some strategy, you can use your old episodes to continue growing and engaging your audience!

You might think your audience should thank YOU for all the work you put into your podcast, but how often do you thank THEM?

Where do you tell your audience to go for the actions you want them to take? I suggest that should almost always be based on your podcast's own domain name.

Presentation is one of the 5 cornerstones of podcasting (content, presentation, production, promotion, and P.R.O.F.I.T.), and how you communicate in your podcast can make the biggest difference in whether people enjoy and benefit from your content.

The Audacity software is popular among countless podcasters at all levels of production! at some point! It's a free, cross-platform audio-editing app, so almost anyone can use it. But Audacity has historically lagged behind other audio-editing apps until now! So here are some of my favorite new features that I think warrant giving Audacity another try.

A while back, Apple introduced the RSS tag to let you mark individual episodes as "bonus," "full," or "trailer" types. Here's what each type means and how you should use them in your podcast-publishing tools.

We use many services in the process of podcasting and engaging our audiences, like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, SpeakPipe, and more. But saying these brand names in your podcast can overwhelm or confuse your audience and—even worse—break their ability to properly engage with your podcast!

In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!

The podcasting industry has grown a lot since its birth in 2004, but the core of what a podcast could be and what it could do hasn't changed much. Now, Podcasting 2.0 revolutionizes the industry with highly requested innovations that will help everyone on all sides of the RSS feeds.

International Podcast Day is this Friday, September 30! This is a day for everyone to celebrate podcasts! It's for podcasters, for audiences, and for us to introduce others to the amazing fun and education available through podcasts!

Dust off my corner of your podcast app because The Audacity to Podcast will be back in September with all-new content to help you podcast better! The first return episode will cover Podcasting 2.0 and why it's so important for you and your audience. I can't promise an episode every week. So if you don't...

In Apple's live-streamed presentation on April 20, 2021, they announced several new products and offerings. But in only a couple minutes, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned Apple Podcasts with announcements that will affect the whole industry.

Do you want to improve the content on your podcast? Jarvis (also known as “Conversion AI”) can help! It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate blog post ideas, headlines, phrases, captions for images, and more. How good is it? That first paragraph was generated using Jarvis's “Blog Post Intro Paragraph” template! And all...