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# WordPress Tip: WordPress and Podcasting — Wordcamp Utah
### Preparing Your Podcast

- Capture extensive metadata in the ID3 tags of your audio file. This helps increase the visibility.

- Give your podcast files a human readable name (not something like nar0081008.mp3).

- Host your own podcast files. This allows you to reap the benefits of the search engine karma that comes to your site. Bandwidth usually isn't an issue.

- Listen to your own podcast before publishing it.

### Blogging Your Podcast

- Use WordPress to publish your podcasts -- it makes it incredibly easy.

- Write attention grabbing titles.

- Add a link in the text area of your audio or video file (so users can download it).

- Add a description of the podcast to let users know what it's about.

- Announce your new podcasts on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

### Essential Blog Theme Elements

- Choose an uncluttered, simple theme.

- Make it easy to subscribe. Put the RSS buttons in a prominent location above the fold.

- Choose a theme that allows you to organize your podcasts into their own area.