How to Make a Podcast

December 11, 2009 By Dena Cassella

Podcast Gear: What you’ll need for a successful podcast

Microphone
Audio recording software
Podcast Manager & Hosting
A computer
Time
A smooth radio voice (optional)

Tips for Hopeful Podcasters

Make sure your feed is iTunes valid.
Make sure your feed is in the directories.
Make sure you ping the appropriate services such as FreshPodcasts (see below) after you update your show.
Get familiar with your sound editor—try to play a round with it a few times before taking the full leap into the podcast.
If you wish for the RSS feed to work in Apple iTunes, you must add special field
Make sure the RSS podcast feed is valid.
Make sure your podcast is hosted by a reliable server that can handle huge bandwidth spikes. Be wary of cheap hosting services will not work for this.
Be exciting—always have something fresh and new to talk about and bring guest on to diversify the conversations
If you’re playing music, make sure to get the rights to the song or songs you wish to play

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iihab at 9:16am 23rd November 2010 I'm pretty sure this was taken directly from a wikihow article. http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Your-Own-Podcast The only difference is the opening paragraph and the added first step. The wikihow's last edit was a month before this article was posted. If you are going to use the same exact words, I think you should at least say where you got them from.
Amir Saad at 7:40pm 30th September 2010 This route really helped me out but I was stuck since the websites didn't work too well.... Podbean and feedburner (google) work pretty good for me now. Got my audio files working and linked together nicely. Good job Podbean, and thanks google...
Name at 4:42pm 13th May 2010 thanks for the help gonna get started right away

just saying just like DeJay Neeley i dont care either
DeJay Neeley at 9:54am 22nd April 2010 Got my podcast for my techno music goin thanks to this. Much appreciated.

ps. I dont care if this is from wikihow... just saying :P
Bob at 11:40am 8th April 2010 Matthew (mfarney),

You should try to record your podcast a minute or 2 at a time. You can use the audio editing software to combine it all together in the end and no one would ever know.
Wall at 6:37pm 9th February 2010 I'm pretty sure this was taken directly from a wikihow article. http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Your-Own-Podcast The only difference is the opening paragraph and the added first step. The wikihow's last edit was a month before this article was posted. If you are going to use the same exact words, I think you should at least say where you got them from.
James at 3:57pm 9th February 2010 Gimme a break, every podcast article out there is like this and it looks like Wikihow ripped it off of eHow. Plus this guide has 12 steps not 11 like Wikihow.
<3 ashy at 11:38am 8th February 2010 what do you mean by that
<3 ashy at 11:26am 8th February 2010 i dont now how to lol
<3 ashy at 11:24am 8th February 2010 so haha
Gamenerd at 1:51pm 30th January 2010 how do you add art and tag it?
shreeonlinejobs at 4:30am 30th January 2010 I have some relevant story on podcast recently i have updates my blog with topic How To Make A Podcast- How To Increase Online Traffic Through Podcast,you can create your own podcast and submit them to podcast directories to get online traffic
dang at 11:52am 4th January 2010 Looks like you need to tackle the distractions one at a time.
mfarney at 7:19am 4th January 2010 Every time I tried recording for a podcast I'd end giving up because there's usually someone or something to disturb me. I realized that there's never quiet in my house. If it's not my son running around, it's my dog crying at the door or my wife needing something from me. I even tried telling everyone I need 10 minutes of quiet time but my phone rang half way so I had to start over.
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1. @STARCHILD_UK at 4:45pm 24th July 2010 I seriously know that feeling. Im supposed to be Producing Music -but never a quiet moment/track finished.. Podcast may work out better for me as I usually get about 3 minutes MAX. www.myspace.com/fasttrackproduction
mfarney at 7:19am 4th January 2010 Every time I tried recording for a podcast I'd end giving up because there's usually someone or something to disturb me. I realized that there's never quiet in my house. If it's not my son running around, it's my dog crying at the door or my wife needing something from me. I even tried telling everyone I need 10 minutes of quiet time but my phone rang half way so I had to start over.
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Mathew Farney
1. musicandartsfan at 2:51pm 18th December 2010 Maybe requesting a room at the local library for an hour might work. Before school lets out is normally the best time (and never during the children reading hour).