Comments on: Organising a Podcasting Website: Should You Mix Blog & Podcast Posts?

By: Shankar lal regar

Shankar lal regar — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:56:00 +0000

Very nice blog, read good stuff here but slightly doubtful on whether mixing podcast & blog will increase users or SERP ranking?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:17:00 +0000

I know this is late guys. But I heard Neil Patel say that Google pretty much ignores podcasts in its ranking. So podcast episodes won’t rank well no matter how extensive the show notes are. For that reason I’ve decided to set up my menu so that people can click on “Podcast” and “Blog” separately, because I intend to have pretty comprehensive article for those who still read blogs, as well as relaunch my podcast, which ran into some problems last time.

I’ve seen it done on some websites, but now the question is… how do you set up WordPress to do this? Do you play around with tagging and categories? What’s the most efficient route?

By: lynette D.

lynette D. — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:16:00 +0000

This is PERFECT! As a newbie podcaster – but a long time standing blogger – I was wondering how to integrate the two or keep them completely separate. This information helped me tremendously. I will integrate both podcasts and blogs together (adding lengthy text description on the podcast post), AND have a podcast tab on the navigation bar for those who are strictly looking for audio. Great article Colin! I also appreciate Brandi’s comment above!

By: Dale Reardon

Dale Reardon — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:39:00 +0000

Hi,
Great to have this advice from an experienced podcaster. Was just trying to decide what to do myself so will put them on the one site together.
Dale.

By: Matthew McLean

Matthew McLean — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:49:00 +0000

In reply to Brandi Young. Good points Brandi, some form of shownotes and description is always worthwhile. Even if it's just bullet points.

By: Brandi Young

Brandi Young — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 05:41:00 +0000

I agree 100% with the strategy of mixing both podcast posts and text posts in the main feed while also having a ‘podcast’ link in the main navigation. However, if you’re going to mix the two, I think the podcast posts should either a.) be clearly marked as such in the post title so people know to expect something different in there or b.) look and feel like a blog post that is still valuable even if the visitor never hears the episode.

So many times I will see episode posts that are literally JUST a player and MAYBE a few words for a bit of a description. That’s it. No notes, no lengthy summary, nothing – and it’s kind of jarring – especially if you are someone who has no clue what a podcast even is. There are still enough non-listeners to make it worth being – what we might consider – redundant by over explaining and emphasizing what it is people are seeing on your site.

Sometimes podcasters, who likely have been listeners for a long time, forget to present themselves to people who are entirely new to the medium. I’m not suggesting that they treat their visitors as if they are stupid… just that they not assume everyone gets what’s going on.

Pretend you’re a newbie listener and craft your site with that in mind.