1. 1 Blogs and Podcasts: A Crucial Combination by Andy Wibbels http://GOblogwild.com/ http://andywibbels.com/ http://andymatic.com/

2. www.andywibbels.com 2 What We’re Talkin’ ‘Bout* Blogs and podcasts in tandem Getting more search engine traffic Making money with your podcast’s blog * Willis

3. www.andywibbels.com 3 Who the heck? Andy Wibbels (Chicago, USA) Author of Blogwild! (GOblogwild.com) Blogging for 6 years Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Business Week, USA Today, Wired Consultant and trainer –Easy Bake Weblogs, Six Figure Blogging, Podcasting Bootcamp, RSS Essentials, Keywords Essentials, WordPress Essentials

4. www.andywibbels.com 4 Blogs and Podcasts Central hub to your personal media empire Collect feedback, solicit comments Media and press info Between podcasts Contact page Post audio/video/media For newbies and Luddites All the non-audio stuff Make money (more later…) Quickly updated and indexed (for now…)

5. www.andywibbels.com 5 Blog Traffic Search skills maturing People that know you already People that ‘stumble upon’ you Findability (cloud) Obvious Promotability Measure your traffic

6. www.andywibbels.com 6 Money Indirect income – extends your existing efforts Direct income with alignment of –Readers (SEO, inbound links, etc) –Content –Advertising Pay per click Contextual Product reviews/placement

7. www.andywibbels.com 7 Multiple Streams of Blogging Income Contextual Widget. Chitika Lets you host little ‘emini-malls’ that provide interactive affiliate referrals on your site. –https://chitika.com/https://chitika.com/ Traditional Affiliate Programs –Amazon Associates. http://amazon.com/associates/ http://amazon.com/associates/ –Commission Junction. http://www.cj.com/ http://www.cj.com/ –Clickbank. http://www.clickbank.com/http://www.clickbank.com/ Impression Based Ads. Pay you every time the ad is displayed. –FastClick. http://fastclick.com/http://fastclick.com/ –Tribal Fusion. http://www.tribalfusion.com/ http://www.tribalfusion.com/ Other Methods –Tips Jars and Donations. Amazon offers this with their Amazon Honors program and PayPal offers donations as well.Amazon HonorsPayPal –RSS Advertising. FeedBurner and PheedoFeedBurner –Sponsorship. Get a dedicated, targeted audience and companies will pay top dollar for visibility. Contextual Text Ads. Text ads that are specifically aligned to the content and topic of your blog. You get payed when your readers click on ads. –Google AdSense. http://google.com/adsense/ http://google.com/adsense/ –Yahoo! Publisher’s Network (still in beta testing). https://google.com/adsense/ https://google.com/adsense/ Outgoing Links. You can host small text links on your blog that link to other sites. This is used by business to increase their search engine ranking and the number of incoming links. –Text-Link-Ads. http://www.text-link- ads.com/http://www.text-link- ads.com/ Regular Text Ads. Advertisers buy ad space on your blogs by the week or by the month. –BlogAds. Organized by category. Ads include text and graphics. http://blogads.com/ http://blogads.com/ –AdBrite. Text ads network where advertisers rent space on your blog by week or month. http://www.adbrite.com/ http://www.adbrite.com/

8. www.andywibbels.com 8 Closing Rants Clean, clear obvious design Own your permalinks Build your audience (prove it) Say-able domain names Have a newsletter or email notification “Are blogs going to be passé?”

9. www.andywibbels.com 9 I Need Your Help! I’m prepping my next course on podcasting and would love your help in making sure it is as complete and comprehensive as possible – please go to podcastingbootcamp.com

10. www.andywibbels.com 10 Keep in Touch: Get the Feed –Add to GoogleAdd to Google –Add to My Yahoo!Add to My Yahoo! –Add to PageflakesAdd to Pageflakes –Add to BloglinesAdd to Bloglines –Add to NewsgatorAdd to Newsgator –Add to AOLAdd to AOL –Add to PluckAdd to Pluck –Add to RojoAdd to Rojo –Add to NetvibesAdd to Netvibes –Add to MSNAdd to MSN –Raw XMLRaw XML Get the Podcast –Add to iTunesAdd to iTunes –Add to OdeoAdd to Odeo –Add to PodnovaAdd to Podnova –Add to Yahoo! PodcastsAdd to Yahoo! Podcasts –Raw XMLRaw XML Get the Newsletter –SubscribeSubscribe Earn Cash –Join Affiliate ProgramJoin Affiliate Program Contact me –andy at andywibbels dot com