Link Building with Podcasts

September 3, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

As many of you have probably noticed by now, there is a “listen now” button under the titles of each of my posts (unless you are reading this from your RSS reader or your inbox). This is a free service by Odiogo.com that grabs the text from your RSS feed and turns every post of yours into a robot-generated podcast so that you can listen to your favorite blogs (this one?) at work or whenever you bring your iPod/music player. While I have no objections to people listening to my blog posts on their iPods, this little widget was installed on my blog to do a little bit more than just turn my blog into a podcast.

The reason I have installed the Odiogo plugin and added a podcast version of my blog is so that I could submit it to a ton of high pagerank authority podcast directories. Podcast directories are just like web directories that link to sites in different niches, but the podcast directories are almost all hand-approved and therefor have far less links on their sites.

What this means for us link builders is that these sites send a lot more authority backlinks than your standard web directory. To make matters even better, I have enclosed a list of sites (credits go to masternewmedia.org) and have pasted the direct-url to the submission pages (or as close as you could get). So sign up with Odiogo, install the plugin and setup a podcast feed, and start building 70 new powerful links to your blog or website.

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http://www.podanza.com/submit/

http://podcastblaster.com/directory/add-postcast/

http://www.youloud.com/addrss/

http://itunestracks.co.uk/podcasts/howtosubmit.asp

http://replay-video.com/guide/enter_podcast.php

http://www.mirpod.com/blog.php?id_blog=1&id_article=80<=en

review directions, then click "add your postcast"

http://www.vicasting.com/SSLSecure/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fSecure%2faddcast.aspx

requires registration

http://www.podomatic.com/feed

http://www.podlog.co.uk/en/form

http://www.genwi.com/login

http://www.podspider.com/website/v4/en/mycast.php?affiliate=ddd3c7c9d8288793e6e5de4a1665f80e

http://www.vitalpodcasts.com/Podcast/PodcastAdd.cfm?CameFrom=index.cfm

http://www.thepodlounge.com.au/add.php

http://www.podcastpup.com/addpodcastform.asp

http://www.podcasterworld.com/add1.php

http://podcastcharts.com/register.html

http://mypodcastcenter.com/addurl.php

http://gofish.com/podcast.html

http://fluctu8.com/addsource.php

http://www.freshpodcasts.com/xmlrpc/client.php

http://www.castregister.com/?ax=register#

http://www.amigofish.com/catcher/podcast/submit

http://www.podcastempire.com/links/directory/add.html

http://feeds2read.net/Suggest-A-Feed

http://www.melodeo.com/mobilcast/feed.php

http://www.podblaze.com/directory_submit.php

To claim your feed requires free registration. If you already have a Feedster account, it works here.

http://feedster.net/claimfeed.php

http://www.podnova.com/add

http://www.encouragingaudiobooks.com/products.asp?cat=47#ffp

http://www.sahfor.com/podcast.html

http://www.getapodcast.com/AddFeed.aspx

http://podcasts.yahoo.com/publish

http://www.everypodcast.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp

http://www.blastpodcast.com/genaddpodcast.html

http://www.apple.com/podcasting/ - It will open up iTunes if you have it installed, and then you can add it from iTunes.

http://www.feedzie.com/feedzie_submit.php

http://www.loomia.com/addfeed

http://www.blinkx.tv/beta/PodcastSubmit/

http://www.blogexplosion.com/members/podcast_main.php

http://www.idiotvox.com/index.php?spid=7

http://www.podcastshuffle.com/submitpodcast.cfm

http://odeo.com/create/import-feed

registration required

http://ipodderx.com/directory/add

http://ourmedia.org/publish

http://www.omn.org/submitfeeds.htm

http://www.podscope.com/submiturl.php

http://www.podfeed.net/add_podcast.asp

http://www.podfeeder.com/add/

http://www.podcastdirectory.com/add/

http://www.podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm

http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Add_Your_Podcast.html

required registation

http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp

http://www.podcastpickle.com/actions/addCast.php

http://www.rss-network.com/submitrss.php

http://directory.pocketcasting.com/index.php?ax=add&cat_id=36

http://podsites.com/submit.cfm

http://www.gigadial.net/public/find-by-podcaster

http://podcasthost.com/component/option,com_contact/task,view/contact_id,2/Itemid,35/

http://www.podcastdirectory.com/add/

http://www.podcasting-station.com/submitrss.php

http://www.podcastbunker.com/Podcast/Podcast_Picks/Request_Lines/

http://www.allpodcasts.com/Update.aspx

http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=site

requires registration

http://www.digitalpodcast.com/add_anywhere.php?cat=1

http://bloguniverse.com/?id_category=14&act=add_new

http://www.podcast.net/addpodcast

http://www.podcastalley.com/add_a_podcast.php

http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/submit.html

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This is part 37 of my link building cookbook, the ultimate free link building strategies guide.

Comments

25 Comments on Link Building with Podcasts

  1. Fax Software on Wed, 3rd Sep 2008 3:33 pm

    2. Nice tip, Do you know if there is an automatic submission software for podcasts?

  2. Link Building Blog on Wed, 3rd Sep 2008 6:12 pm

    3. Good stuff Collin! Good lick with College as well and I thought I’d pipe in that you can use http://feedshark.brainbliss.com to ping your podcast feed to a bunch of podcast directories.

  3. Coby on Wed, 3rd Sep 2008 8:59 pm

    4. This was super easy and I am working my way down the list now. Thanks for all the great links.

  4. Claudia on Wed, 3rd Sep 2008 11:37 pm

    5. Just now I hear about build link through podcast. This is totally new for me. Is that free directories?

  5. neil on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 1:34 am

    6. crickey what a list thanks!

  6. indocontest on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 5:16 am

    7. Nice tips Colin.
    Thanks.

  7. Jordan on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 5:19 am

    8. I’m so doing this.

    Marketers read a lot online. If I can listen instead that means less time at the computer. Yay!

  8. Binh Nguyen on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 7:27 am

    9. Thanks for sharing this. I used odiogo a while ago. I disabled it after trying out. It’s wonderful, however I worry it make my payload slower.

    I visited 2 of these and found out the links got nofollow

    I wonder did you notice that?

  9. Davor Bome on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 7:56 am

    10. Haha, what a freaky and original way to build links :) I’m a little bit in this SEO world so I know for a lot of LB methods but this is one that I didn’t know ;)

  10. iPhone Repair on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 1:13 pm

    11. Thianks for the tip. I just installed and am working on the list. Alot of these links are dead fyi

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  12. Sudarshan on Sun, 7th Sep 2008 1:56 am

    13. Hi,

    I also found that some of the directories are no-follow…

  13. Joel Drapper on Sun, 7th Sep 2008 3:38 pm

    14. I can’t get odio to accept my blog or feed url. Other then that it is a great post and a great list.

    Thanks!

  14. Joel Drapper on Sun, 7th Sep 2008 3:40 pm

    15. P.S I notice you have the “Top Commentors” plugin installed. I installed it on my blog, but can’t seem to get the wiget to appear in the sidebar. Do you have any tips on how to do this?

    Thanks!

    Joel

  15. Collin LaHay on Mon, 8th Sep 2008 12:56 pm

    16. Yeah they are all free.

  16. Ruby Web on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 9:36 am

    17. Thank you for list of these great directories.

  17. name on Thu, 18th Sep 2008 7:28 am

    18. Dear Collin LaHay ,

    is it only for blogs? what about a website?

    Regards
    Ms Diet Pill

  18. Collin LaHay on Sun, 21st Sep 2008 1:54 am

    19. Anything that has an RSS feed for content updates.

  19. Suneel on Sat, 24th Jan 2009 11:05 pm

    20. Thanks for sharing this tip in such an easy manner.

    I was actually wondering how to create a podcast and now I know.

  20. Loky on Mon, 26th Jan 2009 7:37 am

    21. Nice service. Didnt knew about it. I have to try it out.

    Cheers.

  21. Miguel on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 11:30 am

    22. I have found you from a post on digitalpoint forums. What else can I add to all the comments above? Indeed you are probably one of the best resources of information for Link building! Keep up the good work!

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  23. Dan F on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 9:18 am

    24. This looks like an awesome idea, but I’m questioning why you have removed the “Listen Now” buttons on these blog posts, and I cannot find your podcasts in any of these directories ???

  24. Collin LaHay on Mon, 20th Jul 2009 10:47 am

    25. Odiogo was really slow for like a week and it was causing my blog not to load for an extra 10 seconds, which is an unacceptable amount of delay and was annoying a lot of people, so I deactivated the plugin until they figure out what they are doing with their hosting problems.

  25. email fax services on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 11:46 am

    26. great article, I love using podcasts and this is definitely a great list, thanks for the share!

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