The reason behind providing transcript of a podcast or a video on one’s blog is two fold – providing your readers an alternative means to consume your content while optimizing your blog for search engines.

Readers who want to skim through your content are given the choice to do so; instead of subjecting them to listen to the whole of your podcast.

Search engines index your transcript (or blog post) and rank your page in order of what it believes is most relevant.

Hence, it is very important to optimize your podcast transcript for search engines to drive more traffic to your blog.  This can be achieved with little or no effort.

Below are a few suggestions:

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I stumbled across Transcriptionvendors.com today and wanted to know more about working with them.

If you’ve had any experience working with them, please share your experience.

It seems to me like a decent enough place to work on, seeing some reputed transcription companies in their list.

Having said that I have reservations.

First, you have to pay $25 just for the test.

Secondly, to work with them you then pay $250 as regular member and $1,500 as premium member, annually.

Not only that 10% of your earnings through them is paid to them again!

Finally, how is it any different from working for another trancription company if you work through them.

Please share your opinion and experiences with working on TranscriptionVendors.com in the comments below.  It will be appreciated!

As a freelance podcast transcriptionist, I should not be telling you this.

By this, I mean how to transcribe your own podcasts. Or, rather how to effortlessly provide transcripts of your podcasts.

Most podcast bloggers cannot afford to hire a podcast transcription service or a freelance podcast transcriptionist.  So, doing it ourselves is always the most preferred option amongst bloggers.

To provide transcripts of your podcast simply do this: prepare your podcast script beforehand and then provide that script as the transcript. Simple and effective.

Most podcast bloggers do not sit down and type out their podcast script before recording. In my humble opinion, this is a costly mistake.

By NOT preparing your podcast script beforehand you are waiting for a disaster to happen sooner or later.

Not preparing podcast scripts means not carrying out enough research and your podcast is susceptible to incompleteness on the subject matter.  It may also simply mean not knowing how and where to start and end your podcast.  It is unprofessional. Period.

And, in the end, you won’t even have a ready transcript for your podcast.

Instead, take some time, before you begin recording your podcast to draft out a script for your podcast.  Proof and edit the draft for any grammatical errors, pay attention to the structure and flow of your script.

Only when you ready your error free script start recording your podcast.

You will then have a ready transcript to go along with your podcast.  Or, simply another article to post on your blog or as a guest post.

Without spending your hardearned money on a software like Dragon Naturally Speaking or on podcast transcrition services, you should be able to provide your readers quality transcripts easily.

Are you still wondering why you should provide transcripts of your podcasts?

Podcast transcriptions help your blog’s SEO, linkability, monitization, reach, etc, and these are but a few of the benefits of podcast transcription.