Example One – Posting Audio from TelePodcaster.com into a Word Press Blog is Easy!

TelePodcast Secrets Example Blog

POSTING AN AUDIO LINK TO AN WORDPRESS BLOG

In this particular example, the TelePodcast Secrets – Quick Start 2008 call has been posted here into a FREE WordPress Blog, that we have set up specifically for the purpose of demonstrating just how easy it is to add audio to this blogging system from TelePodcaster.com, (which is a URL re-direct to Instant Teleseminar) then to take the blog RSS feed, “burn it” using Feedburner to create the RSS feed you will need to then submit to iTunes and other Podcast Directories.

Before we begin – REMEMBER the Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced model we’ve been teaching you in your approach to internet marketing? This is the “BEGINNER” step. You must learn to crawl, then walk before you can run.

Therefore, this is only the simplest example for the purpose of illustrating the easiest way to get started in understanding how this easy 5 step system of:

(A) Creating an mp3 audio during a teleseminar, which you have conducted on the TelePodcaster.com system;

(B) As a result, you have created during the set-up process at TelePodcaster.com, a replay page with a download link for your teleseminar mp3 audio recording which you will now re-purpose as a audio blog post and podcast in iTunes and other podcast directories;

(C) By copying that download link’s location where the mp3 audio is stored so it can now be posted into your WordPress Blog as an audio player;

(D) Then copying your WordPress Blog RSS feed located on the right hand side of the blog; and then

(E) Burn the WordPress Blog RSS feed using Feedburner to create an RSS feed that iTunes can “read” when you add to it’s directory.

NOTE: This is not the end result that you will be using with your TelePodcasts. HOWEVER it is a step that you MUST take in order to learn the foundational skills that will come next in learning how to set up your “Hosted TelePodcast Blog” on your own domain at MyHostGuru.com.

LESSON SUMMARY

To summarize what you will learn in this example blog post – Example One – Posting Audio from TelePodcaster.com into a Word Press Blog is Easy:

1. It is possible to use the FREE WordPress blogging platform, here at WordPress.com if you really just want to get up and running quickly with your TelePodcast and get it submitted to the iTunes directory;

2. You can post audio on your Free WordPress blog through linking. You can have two options for players:

(a) Snapshot; and/or

(b) The Word Press Audio Player

3. You now have a “Raw” RSS feed to work with – look for the RSS symbol and the link beside it that will say “Complete Feed”. You can copy that link by right clicking your mouse and selecting “Copy Shortcut” in a PC or “Save Link As” in a Mac.

4. HOWEVER, to submit your RSS feed to podcast directories, you NOW need to “burn” that feed with Feedburner in order to create an iTunes compliant feed, which can also be posted into other podcast directories as well.

Let’s begin…

Once you have set up a FREE WordPress.com blog, you can then begin posting to the blog.

By going to the Dashboard you will see the following controls across the top: Write, Manage, Design Comments, Upgrades.

Select Write. You will now see the following screen:

Where you can begin posting with a WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) blog posting system. When you rollover the controls you will see pop-up’s which tell you what each of the WYSIWIG editing controls do.

What we have done is use the Add media controls which you can find at the top of right hand side of the WYSIWIG editor. The one we have used is the Add Audio control which looks like a small set of musical notes at the top right hand side of the WYSIWIG editor, left of the HTML and Visual Tabs.

When you roll your mouse over the 4 Add media icons from right to left you can access Add image; Add Video; Add Audio; Add Media. Select Add Audio.

We have then copied the download link from the TelePodcast Secrets – Quick Start 2008 from the replay page into the Add Audio window here:

Here’s our audio: (TelePodcast Secrets – Quick Start 2008) made available as a snapshot…A snapshot is built into the WordPress.com bloging system. You will only see the snapshot if you are looking at this post on the actual WordPress Blog it was posted upon, or another WordPress Blog where this post has been “syndicated” through using this blog’s RSS feed. You won’t see a snapshot in a newsreader. A snapshot is a specific WordPress Pug-in. There is nothing for you to set up other than for the plug-in to be installed, which it is as a default in a Free WordPress Blog

Now this is the simplest way to begin posting an audio into a WordPress Blog…However, you’ll notice there is no album art in this audio. That’s because the audio is taken directly from copying the link at the TelePodcaster.com page for the TelePodcast Secrets – Quick Start 2008 call. We won’t worry about artwork yet. Just absorb the general foundational principles here, practice them in order to preparer to move on to the intermediate and adavanced levels of TelePodcating where you will host your own blog with it’s own domain.

Now here is the next strategy and the one used most often in a TelePodcast Blog in order to begin “TelePodcasting”.

The exact same file is now made available as an audio player here in this blog posting below:

http://ds1.downloadtech.net/cn1086/audio/8713639851944-001.mp3

You will need to do something here to make this happen.

What we have done is pasted in a particular code into the WYSIWIG editor. Go here to this FAQ on WordPress to see how we’ve adapted the procedure in the FAQ, We simply did a cut and paste into the WYSIWIG editor, substituting the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) – http://www.whatever-their-file-was-labeled-and-stored.com into – http://www.wherever-our-file-was-labeled-and-stored.com.

Once we’ve taken that step the audio appears in the blog Here is what it looked like in our WYSIWIG editor just before we posted the audio player to the blog:

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The code “audio=http://ds1.downloadtech.net/cn1086/audio/8713639851944-001.mp3” when placed in between these brackets [ ] makes the audio player appear in the blog…

Now wasn’t that EASY? If you don’t understand this yet, we will have Camtasia videos that will walk you through this entire process as if we were standing right beside you to help you get up and running.

WORD PRESS RSS FEEDS & FEEDBURNER

WordPress Blogs have their own RSS feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is the “conduit” between where something is stored, and where it is being delivered to once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed.

For example:

RSS FEED (https://doppler1958.wordpress.com/?feed=rss2) is the conduit to deliver the content of this blog to any newsreader, or browser that has a newsreader such as Internet Explorer 7 (PC) , Firefox (PC and Mac) or Safari (Mac) browsers.

We can also add this feed into the iTunes directory to ULTIMATELY post our TelePodcasts so they become available to the Podcast Community.

UNFORTUNATELY, we can’t just submit the RSS feed of this blog directly to the iTunes directly with a simple cut and paste, because the feed is not “compliant” with the iTunes standards. This means iTunes can’t read the WordPress RSS feed, so it can’t list it in the directory.

FEEDBURNER

This means we MUST take one more step…we must BURN the feed using the service at Feedburner. This enables us to burn an “iTunes compliant” feed that iTunes can read. So we did just that. The new feed after being “burned” at Feedburner is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TelepodcastSecretsExampleBlog

You will want to become VERY familar with Feedburner , because it has all sorts of functionality for tracking, metrics and monetization. But in order to not OVERWHELM you at this point, here again is the summary of what you have just learned – the essence of what you need to know:

HERE’S THE LESSON SUMMARY AGAIN…

To summarize what you will learn in this example blog post – Example One – Posting Audio from TelePodcaster.com into a Word Press Blog is Easy:

1. It is possible to use the FREE WordPress blogging platform, here at WordPress.com if you really just want to get up and running quickly with your TelePodcast and get it submitted to the iTunes directory;

2. You can post audio through linking and can have two options for players:

(a) Snapshot; and/or

(b) The Word Press Audio Player

3. You now have a “Raw” RSS feed to work with – look for the RSS symbol and the link beside it that will say “Complete Feed”. You can copy that link by right clicking your mouse and selecting “Copy Shortcut” in a PC or “Save Link As” in a Mac.

4. HOWEVER, to submit your RSS feed to podcast directories, you NOW need to “burn” that feed with Feedburner in order to create an iTunes compliant feed, which can also be posted into other podcast directories as well.

All this example is intended to do is show you how to get audio into a WordPress Blog so it will play on the page and then get it ready so it can be posted to iTunes.

You will want a lot more functionality in your WordPress Blog, so you will need to do a few more things that we will explore in other modules that involve actually hosting your own blog at MyHostGuru.com. When you have your own hosted blog at MyHostGuru.com, you will have your own domain name, plus you will be able to take adavantage of the intermediate and adavanced strategies not available to you when you use the Free Version of WordPress at WordPress.com.

You will be wanting to use the “hosted solution’ distributed at WordPress.org. HOWEVER, by using MyHostGuru.com, you will have an easy point and click system to install as many domains and WordPress Blogs as you could ever possibly want, short of setting up a mini-net of blogs for SEO purposes, which is an advanced TelePodcasting strategy, requiring very specific software solutions.

Let’s move on and look at…

RSS BASICS

Let’s take a moment to familarize ourselves with some RSS basics…

This symbol here on the left hand side signifies and RSS feed: Beside the symbol is the link that contains the RSS feed which when you copy and paste it will show the feed for this blog to be:

https://doppler1958.wordpress.com/?feed=rss2

Notice on the right hand side of the blog that there are RSS feed buttons you can use to subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed?

These are known as “Chicklets” which is a slang term for the small, often orange buttons used as links to RSS files. Most podcatchers (software specifically designed to subscribe to an RSS feed and its content) allow a user to “drag and drop” chicklets directly onto them to easily add a subscription.

Asa explained previously, it is much better from a business, technical and SEO and perspective to have your own WordPress Blog installed on your own domain for reasons we will get into in Modules 5 and 6. But to give you a sense of what you will be learning:

1. Why you’ll want to have a hosting account at: MyHostGuru.com;

2. How to apply proper keyword consistency and tagging principles to a TelePodcast;

3. How to add album art, and properly tag that artwork fro SEO purposes…

We are barely scratching the surface with the above list of what you’ll learn in these modules

In the meantime go to WordPress.com and create a FREE WordPress Blog that you can experiment with. EXPERIMENTING with this blog will help you gain both confidence and skills that will help you when you actually learn how to install a Word Press Blog on your domain as part of your TelePodcast Monetization Strategy.

In the next blog post, we will show you how easy it is to do all of the above in Camtasia Video format so you can follow right along as if we were right there with you!

REMEMBER when you have clients, customers, members, students and alumni: Teach them how to crawl, walk and run, because you will have beginner / intermediate / advanced students.

YOU as the TRAINER must be able to SIMPLIFY your knowledge so it is easy to consume for beginners, provides inspiration to intermediates who can now measure their progress, and always provides challenges to those who are advanced and looking for every way possible to improve themselves and their situations, be they personal, business and / or pleasure.

If you have any comments on how to improve, correct as time marches on with updates, and/or clarify this TelePodcast training session, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

We want you to succeed!

Our very best to you,

Danny Guspie & Heidi Nabert

Your TelePodcast Secrets Trainers