SEO for Wordpress Video Series

In preparation for this Friday’s Main Topic, Optimizing your blog/site for SEO, I am posting this new video series for you to watch. Jeff Chandler will be doing a part of the main topic based on Wordpress SEO and this video series goes hand in hand with that.

I used the new VideoWebWizard to compile this series into a player, instead of having separate videos to watch. This is a lot easier for most people.

So, enjoy this series!

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Broadcasting audio, video or both at the same time

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Ok, here are the show notes from Friday’s Podcaster Training, better late than never I guess. I had decided to do one more simulcast episode using Talkshoe and uStream at the same time, mainly because of the episode topic, but as someone in the chat room coined it, eMurphys Law took effect. Given that Talkshoe has had a number of audio issues in the past, it didn’t surprise me much when I logged in and no one could hear me. Ok, one person could hear me out of about a dozen or so logged into the chat room and on the phone bridge. Others were having similar issues with buzzing sounds and echoing, so since Talkshoe wasn’t a viable platform that night, I immediately switched to my conference line and ran the entire show on uStream only.

In a later part of the show, I made the announcement that I was going video only after last Friday. This caught a number of listeners by surprise, but I think they understand why I am doing this.

I have setup a new live page at http://www.newmediapro.tv and you can find the new RSS Feeds listed there as well. This page will become my new hub for Friday Nights from here on out.

The rest of the show went as planned with Jeff catching us up on the Wordpress News and Josh with his Budde Podcasting Network news. Patti, during her Broadcasting Tips segment enabled some group participation from the listeners and chat room visitors. It’s this kind of interaction that really helps make this a great show.

Finally, we ended with the Business 101 segment, which I will make a post later at http://www.business101chat.com and then we had a great after show, as always. Speaking of the after show, it is now podcasted too and you can pick it up with the Podcaster Training RSS Feed now as a separate entry.

So, concluding this post, I will still podcast this show, only it will have a new RSS feed as I am also hosting the show too. iTunes will pickup the new RSS feeds soon, they will be available for you iTunes listeners very soon.

Even though we are video only now, I will still call the show, Podcaster Training and will continue as I have in the past. Only this time, with more video added to the show! Watch for that! And speaking of videos, I am preparing to post a Wordpress SEO video series here to go along with next Friday’s Main Topic.

See you then!

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The decision has been reached…

Earlier this week, I put out a blog post talking about having to make a decision to go straight video or just keep things as they are right now (doing both Talkshoe and uStream at the same time). I also asked for comments to be posted to help me make this decision.

As you can imagine, I was, needless to say, underwhelmed by the response. No, you read that right, underwhelmed. I had zero, zip, nada, zilch (ok, enough Rob) responses to help me make this decision. So, instead, I called on a few friends, also Show Hosts, and got their opinions. After listening to them and then going over everything myself, I finally reached a decision.

Tonight, will be the last simulcast on Talkshoe. Don’t misunderstand my reasons for doing this. Talkshoe is still a good company and I realize they are offering all of these services for free. This decision has been a long time coming. I have held off doing this (going straight video) for some time now, because of the listeners. However, after the past few weeks of audio issues, well, let’s just say that I have to start over rebuilding my audience again.

The loss of listeners both live and download only, has been incredible. So to this end, I will start over fresh beginning next Friday Night. You will be able to catch the live show at http://www.newmediapro.tv and I will podcast the audio to a new RSS Feed for those who want to continue downloading the Friday Night Podcaster Training and Business 101 Shows. The new feed will be http://feeds.feedburner.com/ NMPPodcasterTraining for Podcaster Training and for Business 101 the new feed will be http://feeds.feedburner.com/Business101Chat

The main web sites will remain the same and if you are already subscribed to the blogs, you will not have re-subscribe again. The new RSS Feeds are for the audio podcasts only.

I will be sending out a special audio podcat to each of the shows currently hosted on Talkshoe to let the download only listeners know how to get ahold of the new feeds. I will do that this weekend.

So, there you have it! I will make the announcement tonight on the show, so if you read this after hearing the announcement, you’ll understand why it’s here first.

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Broadcasting Audio and Video Live at the same time

Our main topic on Friday Night will be “Broadcasting Audio and Video Live at the same time, or should they be produced separately”. I have been broadcasting audio live on Talkshoe for over a year and a half now. Prior to that, I was podcasting (pre-recorded mostly) and video at that time, was just a gleam in most podcaster’s eyes, mine included.

Thanks to the recent outage at Talkshoe, I was able to prove to not only myself, but my listeners, that I could produce a video only show, complete with a conference phone bridge, chat room and clear audio. I had began several months ago putting together this method, which I coined My Plan B (Why? Because everyone needs a Plan B), and was able to pull the show together quickly and professionally and still make the air time on Friday Night. I had never tried my Plan B prior to that night, so I was really happy when it all came together smoothly and quickly and actually worked!

Now, once the show was over, Talkshoe, even though they were back online, couldn’t take any recordings. So, again, my Plan B for this was already in place and I simply podcasted my own recordings on my server and wrote my blog posts along with the embedded recordings for people to download and listen to.

Again, this worked out very well for me. Then today, when Talkshoe finally got the recordings back online so that I could finally upload last Friday’s episodes, I discover that some of my previous recordings are now damaged and the volume is all over the charts! I contacted Josh at Talkshoe and he is getting this looked in to. In the meantime, I now have a decision to make. Do I stay with Talkshoe and continue to hope that “all goes well” and keep cleaning up after them when recordings get damaged, lost or worse, or do I simply go to my Plan B, which I know will work and I have contigencies built in that will allow me to quickly change services and still keep the show going!

This is where you come in as a listener of my shows. I want you to leave a comment to this post, it’s public, so everyone will be able to read it, and let me know your opinion on this. I will make a final decision by Thursday, in plenty of time to amek necessary changes everywhere, and I will base my final decision on your comments. I really want to hear from you on this. I will also keep you updated on what is happening on this end too. Thanks in advance!

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Episode 33 - Hardware or software soundboards for your podcasts

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This episode was special. Why, you ask? Because it was our first ever video only Podcaster Training episode! Since Talkshoe was offline for more than 6 hours on Friday night, I used my Plan B (see earlier post) and went straight video. This worked out very well.

Jeff Chandler was unable to be with us as he didn’t know Talkshoe was offline and didn’t get the message about the special conference line I had set up for this contingency. He will be back on Friday Night for sure, to fill us in on all of the happenings in the World of Wordpress.

Also, Josh filled us in on what was going on at The Budde Podcasting Network and Patti did her segment on Broadcasting Tips.

I covered several areas of software and hardware that could be used as soundboards for podcasting and live shows.

As of this writing, Talkshoe is still not able to take uploads of podcasts. Some fallout from Friday night’s outage, I’m sure. So, keeping up with my Plan B contingency, I have setup my own podcast hosting and you will be able to listen to the podcast from Friday Night in the player below.

Download Episode 33

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Plan B gets an A+!!

As most of you might have been aware, Talkshoe had a power outage and was without service for around 6 hours this evening. By the time 8:00pm EST rolled around, still no Talkshoe, so I switched to my Plan B…using uStream exclusively to broadcast Podcaster Training, my Friday Night Talk Show.

Since you should always have a Plan B, especially when others are depending on you to be there. My normal method is to be on Talkshoe AND uStream at the same time to stream audio and video at the same time. In this way, I can have my show podcasted and on video for training too. Tonight though, with Talkshoe being down, I had to make a decision to go straight video in order to insure the show would air as scheduled.

My Plan B was designed as the following:

Use my MagicJack VOIP Phone Service to call into my dedicated 250 person conference phone bridge.
The 250 person conference phone bridge is provided by Quality Conference Call (for free).
My MagicJack Phone is connected to my Alesis MultiMix 8 Mixer, so that I can broadcast my audio from the conference bridge into uStream.
Login to uStream and start the broadcast.
Start the Conference Call Management Web Interface (to monitor the phone lines).
Produce the show!

Needless to say, my Plan B worked very, very well. The results were better than expected and Plan B will put into a Reserve Status until needed again.

As long as Talkshoe is back up and running next week, we will be back in business, the usual way. Rest assured, if this happens again, I can always pull Plan B back out and use it any time!

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Looks like Friday is a GO!

Anyone that has been following my show, Podcaster Training (airs every Friday Night at 8:00pm EST) know that technical issues has been plaguing the show for several weeks now. Mostly, audio issues, I have tried every trick in the book to insure a clean show.

Last Friday (July 11th) almost took the cake! The audio was so bad that it was intolerable to even listen too, let alone try to do it live! Thanks to Talkshoe’s Engineering Staff and Support Personnel, they finally narrowed down what they think the issue is. I won’t go into details here (just too darn many to mention!).

I have finally completed the setup on my VOIP Phone Service, MagicJack. MagicJack will replace, at least for now, Skype for calling into the show. I successfully tested this on “Collaborate!” with Bruce Turner last night and the audio was crystal clear. Not only that, the show was on for more than an hour (including pre-show) and no glitches. I felt this was a good sign that the issues are finally getting cleared up. Like I always say…Time will tell, it always does!

I was contemplating foregoing the live audio show and going to straight video, but now, it appears that I can have a clear, clean audio show once again!!!

Haven’t listened to Podcaster Training yet? Maybe it’s time to do so!

Podcaster Training airs live every Friday Night at 8:00pm EST at
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=16829&cmd=tc and you can watch live, video training by visiting New Media Pro.TV

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The Move from Audio to Video: Is it the Right move?

Ok, so you’ve been podcasting for some time now and you have just discovered the new world of video. Now, you have a decision to make…or do you? You went out and purchased your webcam, got the special software to do the fancy things on the screen, got everything setup and running, and then you think…what do I do now? Do I go ahead and keep podcasting adn start producing live video shows too? Can I do this both at the same time, thus saving me some time and energy in the process? All great questions.

Let’s assume for a minute that you aren’t just producing podcasts (like pre-recorded) but are doing live podcasting (like on Talkshoe or BlogTalkRadio). This brings up another question…do you have enough resource on your computer to handle two live streams at the same time! If you cannot answer yes, that you have enough resources, then you probably won’t be able to make it happen without a lot of technical glitches appearing on your shows.

On the other hand, if you can make it happen, are you prepared to promote your new live video show, just like you had to with your original podcasts, in order to build up and audience there too?

What if you really want to go video, but then just go back to podcasting your audio. Will your listeners from your live podcasts follow you to video? Some will, but for the most part, in my experience, most won’t. If your listeners are like most, they won’t even respond to inquiries that you put out asking them what they think! I don’t believe this is becasue they just don’t like you, it’s more that they don’t want to get involved. That seems to be the mentality of most of today’s listeners.

So, all you can do at this point, is follow your own heart. A friend of mine told me that recently when I was contemplating this very issue. In fact, that’s what prompted this blog post!

So, to sum it up, if you feel that moving to video is the right move for you, and you are prepared to basically start over again, then like Nike says, Just Do It! (I think they still say that)

As for my contemplation, I will be making a descision before Friday this week! Watch this space for details!

Have an opinion on something I’ve talked about on this post? Place a comment and let me know what you are thinking!

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My current hmmmmm moment

You’ve all heard the phrase, “Things that make you go hmmmm…”, well, now I’ve got something that is making me go hmmmm right now. Maybe you can help!?!

Currently, I produce a number of podcasts and live shows, both by audio using Talkshoe and video using uStream. Normally, I do this at the same time. There have been times where this hasn’t worked out great because of audio issues (I dial into Talkshoe via Skype Out) and the audio is, let’s just say, less than agreeable to the ear. The audio on uStream however, is for the most part, crystal clear.

So, what’s making me go hmmmm, you ask? Ok, I’ll tell you!

Since the audio clarity on uStream is much better (ok, a whole lot better, let’s be honest here), I could easily extract the audio from the recording after the show and then podcast the audio to my podcast host for listeners and subscribers to download. Also, I would not need to have multiple programs running in order to produce a live video show, so bandwidth, cpu time, RAM, etc. would not be over burdened and taxed during these processes.

My main dilemma (if you want to call it that), is will my faithful listeners and subscribers follow me to a video only format or will I basically, start over from scratch? This is where you come in.

Please leave a comment below, so that everyone can see what’s going on here (the comments are now public, so you don’t have to register) and let me know what you think about this.

After the mess that the audio was in last Friday, I was ready to chuck the entire process out the window. However, I am passionate about what I am doing, so I am going to stick in there.

Now, as most of you know, uStream already has it’s own chat room and I have went ahead and setup a Live Page here and it has it’s own chat room too. As for a phone bridge, I even have that covered, should the need arise, with a 250 person live, conference line. I can even bring people in on Skype and have them live on the show and with the Co-Host feature of uStream, live on the video too.

So, please take a minute to let me know what you think about this. I really do value your opinions and I will address each and every comment personally and take your comments to heart.

Thank you for your patience with all of these issues that has been plaguing my shows.

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Episode 32 - A Podcasting 101 Series: Producing Quality Screencasts

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Like any other show night, we had our share of technical difficulties. Tonight, the audio was crackling and blurping (thanks to Leslie for coining that new term), however, as luck would have it, the uStream audio came out almost perfect. I was able to download the FLV file from uStream and extract the audio and was able to use that to re-upload to the podcast. Even my local recording had issues, but uStream saved the day!

Speaking of uStream, the whole point of tonight’s episode was Producing Quality Screencasts. Hard to talk about it, so I showed everyone by broadcasting a screencast I made over uStream. I will have that screencast available in this post, in case you are interested and didn’t get a chance to see it last night.

My screencast was demosntrating the use of ScreenShow Pro, a $97.00 valued screen capture program. ScreenShow Pro is kind of like a stripped down version of Camtasia Studio, only without the bells and whistles. For a limited time, you can click on Free Gift at the top of the page and download this program for free! Don’t wait too long, as I will be removing it later this week and replacing it with another give away.

The audio issues seemed to be related to the VOIP connection and thanks to Josh Budde, he is working with the Engineers at Talkshoe to see what they can do to fix this issue. I have experimented today with Gizmo and the SIP connection, however, the issues were still there. I sent a copy of the MP3 file to Josh to pass on.

Jeff Chandler announced that he would be giving up his Wordpress Weekly show after Friday Night. His show will be missed. However, for now, he will still have his Wordpress News every Friday night on Podcaster Training.

I announced at the beginning of the show, the merging of Business 101 into our format. It was a hit and we got a lot of great response from the listeners too. I have already posted the segment over on Show ID 20332 for the RSS Feed downloads. You will be able to hear the Business 101 segment as part of the Podcaster Training podcast as I am leaving it in for the listeners of this show.

One last item, if you would like to be interviewed on Business 101, please contact Patti Serrano through her web site at http://www.pattiserrano.com

You must have a traditional business, network marketing or MLM type of business and most types of home based businesses will apply here as well. Contact Patti to see if you can be interviewed on the show.

Likewise, if you would like to be interviewed on Podcaster Training, just let me know and I will set you up for an interview. I would request that you be in a podcast, video or other New Media style or have something to do with the New Media world. This will make it more appealing to my listeners.

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