SEO for Audio Files

Question

I have a new client who runs an internet radio station. His site has hundreds of previously recorded shows and I would like to optimize the audio files for SEO as much as possible.

I've consider doing the following:

• Add schema.org markup.
• Add ID3 tags to the audio files themselves.
• Name the files descriptively.

The question that I have is, what are other ways to optimize audio files for SEO?

Note: I've consider transcribing each radio episode so search engines can see the transcripts but that would be either too time consuming or cost too much to hire a person/company to do it.

Answer 1

Here is a simple and effective way.

Transacribe the audios and post it below the audio file. You will have unique content + more data for the search engines to fetch more traffic to the site.

Use services like Fiverr to get the transcribed. Very good method for long term.

Hope that helps.