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How to Build a Podcast Website in 10 Minutes or Less · Abbey the Podcast Lady

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  I just built a website for my podcast in, what's
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  the timer? Less than 10 minutes. That's insane.
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  Hello. And welcome to a special bonus episode
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  of Abby, the podcast lady. If you are listening
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  to this in real time, the most recent episode
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  that went out was with Dave Jackson, where we
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  talked about pod page and building your podcast
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  website and how easy it is. So I thought, you
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  know, it would be a really fun companion to that
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  episode is if we actually set up a pod page website
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  for this show in real time. So I could show you
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  guys exactly how the process works. So you can.
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  See it firsthand and then have the confidence
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  to go and sign up and try it for yourself. So
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  let's head on over to Podpage and get the ball
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  rolling. Okay, we are at podpage .com. Your podcast
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  deserves a better website. See your website in
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  60 seconds and then autopilot takes over. Okay,
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  let's type it in here. Abby, the podcast lady,
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  please don't roast my poor typing skills. Oh,
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  and there I am right there. Top one, 53 episodes.
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  Graves Productions. Again, I can't type. And
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  why is it so hard to type when someone's watching
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  you? Like, has anyone noticed that, like, if
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  someone's, like, over your shoulder watching
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  you type, you get, like, stage fright? Maybe
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  that's just me. I don't know. Also, that's not
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  my email. That is. Create website. So this is
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  what Dave was talking about when he said he was
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  giving people, like, live examples of what their
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  pod page website could look like. it just oh
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  my gosh done loading your website already that
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  was so fast i couldn't even get a full sentence
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  out 14 variations jeepers creepers what what
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  in the what and what oh my gosh okay so let's
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  preview this first one okay okay i like it it's
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  a little bit basic i feel like that's something
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  that like wordpress could kick out no problem
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  i like the vibe of this one let's take a look
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  at this one here well the little animations oh
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  that's really cute i like the player being right
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  there the links to apple and spotify this looks
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  more traditional like drop down menus episodes
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  home follow okay i like how that looks see the
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  mobile version well the mobile version is cute
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  too Okay, we'll close that. Also, if you're listening
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  to just the audio version of this podcast, I
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  am so sorry. This is not going to be... This
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  is a visual podcast. You should definitely be
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  checking out the video version of this week's
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  show because it's very internet heavy. I like
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  it. I feel like the readability is a little low
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  on that one as someone who... used to work on
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  government websites. I feel like that's kind
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  of hard to read the color story is anyway. That's
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  cute. Not really vibing with the hot pink though.
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  My brand is more purple. I do like this one is
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  kind of like the other one. Less bubbly, more
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  squares. I can get behind that. Okay. Okay. I
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  see what they're doing there. Oh, oh, we might
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  have a winner with this one. I like how it's
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  like kind of the blurred art in the background
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  there oh and the email list sign up being right
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  there that is oh I like when you know you know
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  when you know you know but this one's like a
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  lighter version join the email list too okay
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  so as you're seeing me scroll through these basically
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  the lesson here is that in a matter of seconds
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  it kicked out so many options for a beautiful
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  looking website that would have taken me forever
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  to build on my own that it's like yeah why would
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  you not use this service so we're gonna pick
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  one after i mull it over for a few more seconds
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  and go from there okay so i finally picked the
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  one that i liked and what we're gonna do is now
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  do a little customizing it looks like say hi
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  to your new website seriously we'll walk you
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  through customizing some things imported the
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  content reviews, player links, created a schedule
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  to regularly import new episodes. That's huge.
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  Site map, SEO pages. That's awesome. Let's click
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  start customizing. I'll hit next. Created episode
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  pages. Ooh, yay. I love that it makes episode
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  pages. That is huge for SEO. So RSS media players
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  are added. Show notes are imported. URLs, player
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  directories. You can even add videos in the dashboard
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  and guest profiles and transcripts. Wow, this
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  is really robust and you're just having to click
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  through it. This is awesome. So you can actually
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  connect with your listeners through PodPage as
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  well. They have a contact form, a voicemail thing,
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  an email capture form. Ooh, there's a lead magnet
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  pop -up. There's a mailing list incentive. Wow,
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  there's a lot of things that this... There's
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  going to be a lot of poking around to do around
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  here. You can even book guests through here.
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  This is great. Oh, you can even add an always
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  present announcement bar at the top of your page.
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  So you can always have something like if you
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  got a new course launching, if you have something
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  exciting coming up, if you have a big event coming
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  up that you want to promote, you can add it to
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  a announcement bar. That's really cool. Skip
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  that one. Okay. Create the account. Let's do
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  this. That's it. Free trial. You just log right
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  in. That is so simple. Oh my gosh. I just built
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  a website for my podcast in, what's the timer?
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  Less than 10 minutes. That's insane. Okay. Let's
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  go to the dashboard. This is actually a pretty
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  intuitive, easy to navigate dashboard. Look at
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  this. Okay. So you can write an about page. You
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  can add a custom domain. So if you have the custom
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  domain for your website from a place like, I'm
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  assuming GoDaddy or anything like that, you can
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  add your custom domain. You can level it up with
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  a built -in blog. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. If
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  you've heard me say it once, you've heard me
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  say it a million times. Turn your episodes into
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  blogs, build your SEO that way, and you can add
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  blog posts. Yes, this is exactly what my show
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  needed. And it's probably what your show needs
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  too, if we're being honest. This is absolutely
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  incredible. Look at how easy it was to set that
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  up. I am just floored by... how intuitive and
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  how simple that was. You just click it and let
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  it rip. Oh my gosh. Okay. So basically the lesson
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  here today is if you need a website for your
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  podcast, you've been kicking that can down the
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  road. There is no time like the present to do
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  it. And there is no service to do it quite like
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  pod page. So Be sure you check it out. I have
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  a link in the show notes below for you to check
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  out pod page, get signed up, poke around, take
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  advantage of that free trial period and build
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  an epic website for your podcast because your
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  podcast deserves it. And this is going to be
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  so helpful for visibility and discoverability
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  and credibility, all the abilities. So be sure
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  you check it out in the show notes below. And
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  I will talk to you next week on Abby, the podcast
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  lady.