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Okay, I'll take'm in order. (Smiley used by Royal Permission of Her Majesty QuirkyJessi, our resident Smiley Queen. Offer void where prohibited, and may not be rebroadcast without express written consent from Major League Baseball.)

thats great! So, what kind of marketing did you do, if any when you posted the pod cast? Stumble Upon, digg, a forum, anything?

Actually, I didn't do anything I don't normally do when I post. I haven't really used Digg or SU to their fullest extent. I did submit to two or three "podcast aggregators", but only on that post.

Also does the podcast make references to your website so if people found just the podcast they could find your website?

Since this one is titled "Cracking the Copernicus Code", I do identify it as "Cracking the Copernicus Code from LagORama.com" at the front and back, but that's it.

i guess podcasting traffic varies from the blog's niche

Very much so, from what I've seen. Also, however, I made a conscious decision to make very short podcasts, because (ready for this) no one else is. I see comments in blog threads all the time along the lines of "Great podcast! I'll try to listen to all of it when I have time.", and yet podcasts continue to be anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour or more. This is a symptom of the youth of this form of expression...people usually don't realize that the greatest skill you can acquire as a broadcaster is to know when to shut up.

Again, the world doesn't need any more video gaming podcasts, so I made a conscious effort to provide something that no one else was...a podcast that you can listen to in less than five minutes. Nothing makes you stand out like "Hey! I've never seen that before!"

For me personally, my traffic to a site would decrease after they started switching to podcasting....if they kept up with regular blogging, then simply my comments would drop off because I wouldn't watch them and eventually, I'd feel pushed out if the podcasting took a larger role. I've actually stopped going to a few blogs over time because they've switched to nothing but podcasting/vlogging and well, I'm often browsing blogs when I'm not in a situation to have volume up....or frankly, they're much better writers than they are speakers/recorders, lol.

/end ramble Point being, don't forgot about your 'readers', too, when it comes to bringing in podcasts, hehe....no matter how great your traffic might seem on a few podcast posts.

And that's why any and all podcasts I do for LagORama don't affect my regular schedule of one post each weekday....the podcasts are in addition to what I already provide. Don't want to mess with a podcast? Skip it...you're still getting exactly what you always have from my site. (Again, a conscious decision on my part.) However, by keeping the length down, I've lowered the "barrier of entry" for my readers. Want to know what everyone's talking about on that podcast thread? You can hear the entire thing in less time than it takes to listen to one song on the radio, instead of having to wade through an hour of audio.

I know what you're talking about, though...I see more and more bloggers start to podcast, and transition away from posts to podcasts. In my opinion, wrong wrong wrong! You've got to ride the horse that got you to the racing finals if you want to win, which means "keep doing what got you to the point you're at, and then add value to it."

That's what I'm doing with the audio I'm putting up at LagORama.

Good comments, everyone!