PodCraft | How to Podcast & Craft a Fantastic Show
Alitu & The Podcast Host
Podcraft is your weekly, no-nonsense guide to honing the art of podcasting, hosted by veteran creators Colin and Matthew. With over 30 years of combined experience, they cover everything from choosing the right mic to growing your audience and making money from your show. Some episodes dive deep into one topic, like titling episodes or using live events to build your brand, while others feature real-life case studies from podcasters who've been there and done it. Whether you're just starting out or levelling up an existing show, Podcraft gives you the practical advice and honest insights you need to make it work.
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Nov 12, 2014 • 11min
Analytics and SEO for Your WordPress Podcasting Website
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 8 Our topic for this episode is Analytics and SEO. I’ll have a look at optimising your show notes pages to help them, and your site in general, appear more prominently in the search results. We’ll look at an SEO plugin that really helps with this in mind, and an […]Support the show (https://pod.academy)
Nov 11, 2014 • 12min
Adding Podcast Subscribe Links to Your WordPress Website
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 7 In this episode I’m looking at the all-important subscribe links. These are aimed at converting passing visitors into long term subscribers, and are often forgotten about in the blind rush to concentrate on iTunes traffic. Well, I can tell you it’s just as important to look after your […]Support the show
Nov 10, 2014 • 11min
Creating Memorable Shortlinks on a Podcasting Website with Pretty Link
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 6 This week, we’re on to enhancements. We’ll talk about the extra tools that you can add to your Podcasting website that will really help to entrance your audience, and keep them coming back for more. The first of these is a vital tool called Pretty Link: it allows you […]Support the show
Nov 7, 2014 • 17min
Creating Great Navigation for your WordPress Podcasting Website
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 5 Navigation is, I think, one of the most underthought aspects of many people’s WordPress Podcasting websites. It’s understandable – WordPress does a lot of it for you, automatically adding pages to the menu bar, and allowing a generic category box down the side. In this episode I talk about […]Support the show (https://pod.academy)
Nov 6, 2014 • 14min
Choosing a Theme for your WordPress Podcasting Website: Looking Good!
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 4 WordPress is one of the best bits of web software out there, but out of the box it doesn’t look good… The default themes are clean, but plain, and if you want to stand out AND offer a good user experience, then you need a theme. In this episode […]Support the show (https://pod.academy)
Nov 5, 2014 • 16min
Podcasting Plugins for WordPress: The When & Why
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 3 WordPress is a great system for getting your content out into the world, and, even in it’s basic form, it can do many of the things we need as podcasters. One place in where it’s lacking, however, is RSS feeds – that’s the specially coded page which allows people […]Support the show
Nov 4, 2014 • 11min
Installing WordPress as your Podcasting Website Platform
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 2 In this episode we’re looking at installing WordPress. WordPress is the software that we’ll be using to run our podcasting website and, luckily for us, our hosting package makes it really easy to get it up and running. Listen to the episode to find out how to use cPanel […]Support the show
Nov 3, 2014 • 12min
Owning Your Podcast Space: Setting up Domains & Hosting
The PodCraft Podcast: Series 3, Episode 1 In the first episode of Series 3 we’re looking at the reasons for owning your own Podcasting space. This means having your very own domain and hosting account on which you can run a website of your own. The big thing here is that aforementioned Ownership, and the control […]Support the show (https://pod.academy)
Oct 31, 2014 • 11min
Introducing Series 3: 20 Steps to a Peerless Podcasting Website | PodCraft S3E00
Welcome to the start of Series 3! In this episode I give an introduction to the series, and talk about what we’re going to cover over the coming 20 episodes. The series will be delivered every weekday of November, covering 20 Steps to creating a Peerless Podcasting Website. By the end of this month you’ll […]Support the show (https://pod.academy)
Oct 20, 2014 • 42min
Series 3 Teaser & an Interview with the Boagworld Team
In this episode I’m introducing the topic and format of the next series of PodCraft, and it’s something a little different. Next, I’m including an interview I did with the Boagworld guys a few months ago talking about the Podcast Host. If you’re interested in a little more detail on the business, then this is […]Support the show (https://pod.academy)
