Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 84 of the blog millionaire.

This episode is the second part of the four-part series, turning your blog into a successful

podcast.

In part one, I went over the reason why you should start a podcast and how to plan out your

first 10 episodes.

In this episode, I will teach you how to optimize your show art and show title to

drive thousands of downloads from iTunes search. I'll start out with the show art. The show art

is going to be the first impression that you convey to potential new listeners, while the key

words that you use in your title and byline will determine which words

you're going to show up for in iTunes, the show art is what's going to be seen and read.

A mediocre show art image can destroy your click-through rate from iTunes search results,

so you want to make sure to do the right

things to make that cover art look spectacular. Here are some ways to turn the show art for your

podcast into an extremely clickable image that drives listens and subscribers. Number one, make sure it follows

the requirements of iTunes.

Here's the exact quote from iTunes.

Podcast feeds contain artwork that is a minimum size of 1,400 by 1,400 pixels and a maximum size of

3,000 by 3,000 pixels, and it needs to be either a JPEG or a PNG.

If you don't know much about graphic design then just go on over to Canva to build

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