I note a lot of interest out there in lifting podcasts. Just the other day, Chris D. of Strength News listed a set of podcast sites and Blaine at Run to Win chimed in with one of his favorites. Now, Nancy is chiming in about her and my plans for our next podcast series on our periodization program.
I've found out a couple of things from Nancy's and my experience at Muscle Ventures that I posted about on my other blog The Community Engine. I'll summarize that rambling post here. If you're going to do a video podcast, then publish it on your own blog to get visibility but also be sure to put it on a few services where people go to watch videos. That means: submit to iTunes, google video, and surprise, surprise youtube. iTunes is getting to be the standard for podcasts. Google video seems to get you search juice, and youtube seems to pull in a good group of viewers. Both convert your video to flash format, not the best quality, but watchable.
That's not the point with those; the point is to get viewers. In a month, Nancy and I had over 5300 views on google video and most of those were not linked to on our own blog. They came from Google by itself. On that note, make sure you link back to your own site on all of these submissions to other parties, so people know where the source is.
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