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I’ve been getting into podcasting recently not only because it’s fun but also because it’s a great way to promote your sites and businesses.

With the popularity of the Ipod personal music player, you’ve probably heard the term Podcasting thrown around. This term means either an audio or video broadcast that anybody can create with a little knowledge.

When people listen to podcasts, they can click a button to listen to your audio, download the audio file to their computer or Ipod.

All you need to do is record audio using a microphone or digital recorder and then upload the file either to your own webhost or to a hosting server.

The podcast is not an audio file but rather an xml file. If you know html then xml is very similar with beginning and ending brackets to enclose certain information such as the name and description of your podcast, the location and file size of the audio file, and the date of the podcast.

Here is an example xml podcast file:

<?xml version=“1.0”?>
<rss version=”2.0”>
<channel>
<title>Choose Your Own Title</title>
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/audiofile.mp3</link>
<description>Make a description of your podcast</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>2006</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Date Today</lastBuildDate>
<webMaster>webmastersemail@domain.com</webMaster>
<ttl>1</ttl>
<item>
<title>Today’s Headline</title>
<description>How to make money online</description>
<pubDate>Date Today</pubDate>
<enclosure url=”http://www.yoursite.com/audiofile.mp3” length=”1426573” type=”audio/mpeg” />
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

Once the file is created and uploaded to your server, you can then submit the url of the file to podcasting directories to promote your podcast.

There’s a lot more I want to cover on this topic after I get more experience. I will report back with my successes or failures so you can give it a try yourself.

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