Let me begin by saying myself, nor SP (my co-host on Better Podcasting – a show I’m about to refer to) are in no way SEO experts. While we both have varying levels of experience making changes to help with the SEO of our sites, neither of us remotely claim to be experts. If you want to hear a short discussion on what this article is about to say, please check out Episode 81 of Better Podcasting – particular at the time code of 25:41. Ok, now that’s out of the way, let’s get to the rest of the article…
While there may be businesses that specify in SEO, to many, Google Search Engine Optimization remains a mystery. In fact, Google is constantly making changes, refining how they want results to be displayed to its users.
Podcast RSS SEO has long remained a hot topic, full of varying levels of debate. This was very apparent when a few months ago SP and I recorded an episode on the Pros and Cons of Self-Hosting your podcast on Better Podcasting (Episode 65) where during the show I made ONE very brief comment about potential SEO. Considering this was a very small portion of a lengthy episode, I was surprised to find the resistance that followed which even lead to a followup the next episode where we clarified the factors that we felt made it still a valid CONSIDERATION.