During my presentation at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo, I talked about the importance the text content on your site for getting exposure in the search engines. One strategy I suggested was getting transcriptions of your podcasts and posting them on your site/blog. Here are examples of some podcasts using transcripts:
Battlestar Galactica (interesting approach letting listeners take care of it with a
wiki)
The Accidental Creative
(this is a podcast that sells their transcripts. No SEO benefit there, but an
interesting model)
I was recently introduced to CastingWords as a good service for podcast transription. Their rates are competitive.
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October 17th, 2006 at 1:57 am
[...] TAT for PodCast Transcription is normally around 24 hrs to 36 hrs and some times it is less than 24 hrs based on PodCast audience. The sooner they transcript the PodCast the soon it will be indexed by the search engines. Some example of PodCast using transcripts at Jason Van Orden [...]
May 1st, 2007 at 8:11 am
[...] Jason Van Orden says that the text content on podcaster’s site will give them more exposure in the search engines. Lissa on the other hand said that transcribing your podcast offer an additional way for people to consume your content. And both of them raised the possibility that podcasters may earn or monetize the transcript of their podcasts. [...]