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Today Blubrry discusses the essentials of building and maintaining a podcast website. We explore why having your own site is crucial for total control over your content and audience engagement. Specifically, we'll focus on the advantages of using WordPress paired with our plugin, PowerPress. Your show is never safer than when it's in your hands. If you are using WordPress and PowerPress for your podcast publishing, YOU are the platform. This is good. You own the feed address and get all the SEO benefits to your brand. BUT, with great power, comes great responsibility! Here are the main pros and cons of being your own podcast platform. Pros 1. Control and Customization Full Control: You have complete control over your content, layout, and feed settings. Customization Options: PowerPress offers various customization options for your podcast, including episode-specific settings, SEO features, and advanced feed settings. 2. SEO Benefits SEO Integration: WordPress is SEO-friendly, and PowerPress enhances this by allowing you to optimize your podcast episodes for search engines. Increased Visibility: Proper SEO practices can increase your podcast's visibility, attracting more listeners. 3. Integrated Website Unified Platform: Having your podcast and website on the same platform can simplify management and provide a seamless experience for your audience. Additional Content: You can easily add blog posts, show notes, and other content related to your podcast episodes. 4. Monetization and Analytics Monetization Options: You can integrate ads, affiliate links, and other monetization methods directly on your site. Detailed Analytics: PowerPress provides detailed podcast analytics, helping you understand your audience and improve your content. 5. Community and Support Large Community: WordPress has a large community of users and developers, providing extensive support and resources. Regular Updates: Both WordPress and PowerPress receive regular updates, ensuring your site remains secure and functional. Cons 1. Technical Knowledge Required Learning Curve: Setting up and managing a WordPress site with PowerPress can be complex, especially for beginners. Maintenance: Regular updates and maintenance are required to keep your site secure and running smoothly. 2. Hosting Costs Additional Costs: You need to pay for web hosting, domain registration, and possibly premium plugins or themes, which can add up. 3. Potential for Technical Issues Compatibility Issues: Plugins and themes can sometimes conflict, causing issues that need troubleshooting. Security Vulnerabilities: A poorly maintained WordPress site can be vulnerable to security threats, requiring vigilance and security measures. Too much security: Your RSS feed needs to remain public and not behind any firewalls or other blocking for security reasons. Some systems can block your feed from Apple and other destinations which defeats the podcasting works. In most cases, you are not trying to protect Fort Knox! 4. Time-Consuming Content Management: Managing a WordPress site can be time-consuming, especially if you're also focusing on creating podcast content. Backup and Recovery: Regular backups are essential to avoid data loss, adding to the time and effort needed. 5. Dependence on Plugins Plugin Reliance: Relying heavily on plugins to from the way your site LOOKS can sometimes lead to issues if plugins become outdated or unsupported. Performance Impact: Too many plugins can slow down your website, affecting user experience and SEO. At the end of the day you are responsible for the well-being of your podcast and it's corresponding website. Blubrry is here to help you and ensure that you are able to get the best experience possible, but the fate of your podcast is in your hands. The best place for support with any Blubrry product or service is our ticket system.

Please rate us on Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-a-successful-podcaster-with-bruce-chamoff/id1553846808 Although this is an audio podcast, you can watch the video presentation on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkdd1HPTTsk On June 26 2001, at the PodKnow 2021 conference, I spoke about the power of RSS feeds for your podcast, and how they really help your podcast grow. If you want your audience to grow, and you want new people to hear your content of your podcast, including every single episode from the very first one, no matter how long you did it to every future episode, the RSS feed is the most powerful marketing tool you'll ever need. And the most important thing to note, it is free. In this presentation, I not only talk about the RSS feeds for your podcast, and how to grow your audience with them. I also talk about Seinfeld and friends, Arrested Development and a lot of the sitcoms that were reruns from the 90s. And how syndication has not only helped those shows, grow even more. Remember that Seinfeld was on Hulu, but also, that the RSS feed is about syndication just like all of these TV shows. And you if you can recall, that syndication puts TV shows in other locations other than their original channel when he went to primetime. So you can absolutely use RSS feeds to take the same benefits of syndication as all the sitcoms. And just remember that iTunes also uses RSS feeds to show your content because you never need to upload your content of your podcast episodes to Apple or even Spotify. Because if whether you have anchor, or Buzzsprout, or if your podcast is hosted on Lipson or pod bean, the RSS feed is available from all those podcast hosting platforms. And it takes your content and puts it out on other people's websites, including Spotify and Apple iTunes, or Apple podcasts. That's the beauty of the RSS feed. And in this video, I actually show a presentation as well. So check out the video on YouTube as well. But if you're in your car, and you're listening to podcasts from your car, while you're traveling to work, you can also just listen to this presentation from the audio and you'll still get the benefits that I'm trying to give you in this podcast. So definitely watch the video. But if your podcast is hosted by Anchor, Buzzsprout, PodBean, Libsyn or if it's it's even on Apple iTunes, Apple Podcasts or Spotify or even Stitcher and iHeartRadio. Your RSS feed puts your episodes on all of those. So check out this episode. And please rate us on Apple podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/successful-podcaster/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/successful-podcaster/support

As a Podcaster, your RSS Feed is your connection to the world for your podcast.  The transmitter for your "Radio Station".  Your RSS feed address is just like a "Frequency" Like "101.9 FM".  

Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Podcasting Center. We hope our brief, regularly-scheduled absence was not entirely unpleasant. Your RSS feed has been processed and we are now ready to begin the episode proper.

A libsyn slug is something you will be asked for when you sign up at Libsyn.com ( Libsyn is short for Liberated Syndication - they are the largest podcast media hosting company). You can get a free month when you sign up using the coupon code sopfree.  How is a Libsyn Slug Used? The libsyn slug is used as an ID for your Libsyn account. If you open a support ticket all you have to do is provide your slug and the support team can look up your account information. It is also used in the URL of your libsyn podcast page. For example, my slug is podcastconsultant. My Libsyn podcast page is http://podcastconsultant.libsyn.com/website (I don't use that page, I use this page which uses WordPress, hosted at coolerwebsites.com It is also used in your feed. The feed for this show is https://podcastsconsultant.libsyn.com/rss  Lastly, it's used in the URL of your MP3 file. Last weeks file is https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/podcastconsultant/ypc071-joerogan.mp3 Can I Change My Slug? As we just stated the slug is used in your libsyn podcast page, your feed, and every mp3 file. If you change your slug - you break everything.  Just so you are 100% clear on the consequences. 1. All your episodes will need to be fixed as the url to the mp3 will change. So whatever websites have the episodes will need to be redone for every single episode. 2. If you used the Libsyn podcast page anything linking to that page will need to be updated. 3. Your RSS feed will change, so your iTunes will be looking at a dead feed (with no way to update your previous subscribers) so you lose ALL reviews and ALL of your subscribers. You will be starting from scratch. If you haven't submitted your show to any directories there really aren't that many consequences. You do need to contact Libsyn support.  If you've already submitted your show to directories, here is a quick test.  Think of your favorite podcast. Got one?  Now tell me their feed.  Me Neither.  In my opinion its not worth going back to square one.   

Every time someone requests a proposal from my firm to help promote and or market their podcast, I always politely decline. I turn down those jobs because I know the only predictable way to make a podcast successful is to nail the basics first. I know that spending money on promotion before the basics are in place is a waste of money. And I don’t like wasting anyone’s money. Before you spend any marketing/advertising/promotional dollars on your show, you have to get these three things nailed down. Thing One: Foundational Fundamentals There are actually four parts of Thing One, and they are equally important. No corner-cutting: 1. A web presence for your podcast. I mean a real and functioning website for your podcast. I do not mean an automatically generated website that is powered by your podcast’s RSS feed. Your RSS feed is designed to distribute episodes of your podcast to directories and apps. It is not designed to propagate a  website. 2. Complete distribution of your podcast. The right way to use your podcast’s RSS feed is to send out your episode to various apps and directories. Yes, that means Apple Podcasts. It also means Spotify and Google Podcasts. But it also means a dozen or so other directories and apps that maintain their own list of podcasts. You don’t get to control where people find your show.  3. Don’t forget listenability! Before you throw money at getting people to sample your audio, make sure the sound quality doesn’t drive them away. No, “good enough” probably isn’t. Not when you’re talking about investing ad dollars. Listenable audio files are table stakes, and I’m a little ticked that I have to keep saying that. 4. Rinse & repeat & repeat & ... You have to be able to repeat your processes with every episode. You have to be able to do that and meet your self-imposed release schedule. And if you can’t, then you need to make an adjustment.  Thing Two: Remarkable Content“Advertising is a tax paid by the unremarkable.”  Everything I just said above is moot if the contents of your episodes aren’t remarkable. You can have the best-looking and most-optimized website in the world distributing pristine audio files to every single platform on tight schedule… and still fall flat if the content is “meh”. Thing Three:  Leverage Your NetworkBefore you try to bring in people from the outside (ala advertising), you have to start at home. Notice I didn’t say leverage “a” network. I said leverage “your” network. If you honestly have no network: start building one! And if you can't build your network, then you borrow one.  You have to do all three of those things before you spend a dime marketing your podcast. But here's the cool thing: If you do all three of these things really well, you probably won't need to spend any money advertising or promoting your podcast.  You may still want to spend money to grow your show even more, and that’s fine. Especially if you can draw a straight line from more listeners to more income. But don’t do that before you have all three of these things nailed down. I know you’re probably busy with things, but if you could spare a minute or two telling me about your experiences as podcast living through the novel coronavirus pandemic, I’d love to feature you on Thursday’s episode of the show. Put a minute or so worth of audio on Dropbox and then send the link to evo@podcastlaunch.pro (mailto:evo@podcastlaunch.pro) , please?  And if you have one more minute for me, please use that minute to tell one friend about Podcast Pontifications. It really makes a difference when you personally reach out to someone and tell them why you think they should listen. It's great when you retweet me and you share my content on Facebook, of course. But nothing beats an individual outreach to one person. ----- Share this with a friend:... Support this podcast

How to sell even if you are in quarantine , on vacation or asleep If people are put into a situation where the economy shrinks or anything similar it is the people who have prepared that will win in the future. You will have to outwork the competition and there is some silver linings in the storm in the future. Downturns in the economy chase weak players out but what you are left with is the best people to compete against. You have to tilt the odds to your favor and find a better way to compete. Changes in society and or changes with jobs will come and go. You get to keep the skills you develop forever or even for your next job.   Start with your social media profile Fill out your profile so that it doesn’t look like you are in high school. Add the jobs you have had and other notable items. Clean up your profile and remove undesirable information. You will want to sanitize your profile because people will look you up for what it coming next.   You will start to build a Dream 100 list. This strategy was taught by Chet Holmes. You literally list out the top 100 people you want to work with or do business with. When you acquire a new client you add someone else to the list. You are going to leverage your social media account to find clients that are in your top 100 list. This is one of the reasons you want to clean up your social media account. Find the people you want to connect with and start a conversation and make it meaningful. The goal is to get enough traction that you can start a business conversation. You don’t lead of with the business conversation though.   How to leverage online content You have to get past what others think of you and what you are doing. You must get over your voice and your look on film. Your first one is your worst one is what you are taught. It does take time energy and effort to get used to creating content online.   Create the content on your own time so you know who owns the final content. There may be challenges if you create content in the die of a company. How to think about content in terms of money   When building online content think in terms of barter or trade.  What could you do if you had zero dollars and had to advertise? Would you be able to make a deal happen? What would you be willing to trade in order to make something happen? Make a list of what skills you have that you could trade or barter for to get what you need.  You may have to do a 3 way deal in order to close some deals to get what you need in order to sell. Content is really barter for services its your commercial for people to find you. This content is meant to supplement an online sales funnel and marketing measures.   You can break some of it up and work with people on a team. You can trade for work and or services to build out content you don’t know how to use. You can get caught up with making something perfect and this will give you and excuse to not get anything done. For what you need to work on right now done is better than perfect.   Changes in the environment can lead to loss of sales If you are in quarantine or society close down for a while people will still need to but things. They don’t want to leave the house or they don’t want to be near someone who could be sick.   People are always looking for knowledge. Buyers don’t want to make a bad decision so they want to be certain about what they do.    One of the greatest things is you get to keep your content when you build it on your own time and dime.   Having content makes you an expert and the more you have the better you look. You will want to build up your content arsenal over time. You don’t have to do all of this work in a day. If you search for excuses you will find them   There are multiple people who add content and explainer videos about any topic. If you don’t know how to do something google it there are 10,000 articles or videos on everything. If you want to see how to do something look up the content on YouTube.   Learn how to search on search engines. Go and look up “sites like __________ or  “free __________” or “cheap _________”. When you use the search engine the right way anything you need can be found.   You have to find the time to put content together. If you are at home you have time work during the evenings.  You can do quite a bit over a few weekends.   Recycle your content Keep all your content in one place and then you can recycle it. Here is the path flow you take video and turn it into audio. Once you have the audio you can turn it into text. You are going to have to put in some work, you will need to outwork your competition.   The path for content creation The content you are going to build starts with easy downloads. You will start here because you now have outlines for everything else you want to create.   10 FAQs 10 SAQs 10 Myths 10 Books 10 things you wish you would have known when you got started Create a buyers guide – this is a mix of FAQs & SAQs Create videos that is 2 -5 minutes, these are explainer videos Podcasts and audio content Videos – These can be hosted on YouTube and other places   Create video for content Most of the content you will create will revolve around similar topics. The best place to start is to leverage Facebook live video. You can download the video and then edit it. Once you have the edit done you can upload to YouTube.   You only have so long to hold attention of anyone. Get to the point intro in the first few seconds. My name is ________ and what we will talk about is _________ Sound matters more than you would know. People will put up with bad lighting to an extent but they will not put up with poor sound. You can shoot explainer videos. You shoot what your idea is so that it can be used on tablets or websites. You can shoot B roll or extra footage.   Be aware of private property rules and ask for permission to film on private property.   For good light use a cowboy studio. 3 point lighting will make you look like a pro. Use a good looking linen or desk as a backdrop Be quick and easy about building your content. You need get momentum. If you get stuck on perfection nothing will get done. Look at the camera when you talk and use bullet points to talk off of.   Keep your bloopers for a reel that can be used later on down the road. You will want to back up all of your content.   Create a podcast about your topic Say what you need to but watch your language for distribution. You don’t want to create a bad first impression.   Your podcast is not a Pitch fest, you can mention services at the end of the episode.    Common questions and commonly searched terms are a good way to build content.   The sounds in your podcast Sound quality really matters more than you know for an episode of a podcast. Enunciate your words and make sure to use vocal inflection. Write a good description  for your website. Use the content from your FAQs, SAQs and buyers guide. You can rip the audio from the video you have crated and piece together a good podcast if you have done things right. Your RSS feed An RSS feed is the Really Simple Syndication feed or address for your podcast.  Put your RSS feed everywhere that will allow you to. There are multiple directories out there.   Create a YouTube channel Once you have video you can create a YouTube Channel. This will take some work on your part. You will want to research your key words for the distribution of the content.   Go to google look up your industry and see what key words pop up for you. Make a list of things you can create and repurpose content from.   Create 10 videos and when you upload them use the 3T method – Title – Tags – Thumbnail.  Name the videos based upon similar key words. You will need to do the research.   You can turn your podcasts into MP4s and put them up on YouTube. Make sure to check the terms and conditions of what YouTube allows since this changes over time.    Content online There are multiple places for you to add your content online for people to find. This is not the only list but a place for you to get started. There is paid of software that will release all of your content into most of the platforms. How you move forward with your syndication of your materials is up to you. Facebook page Instagram page Twitter Snapchat Your hosted website or created website.   The best tools for content creators There are places for content creators to get their processes made for free or low cost. Here are just some of the places you could look to build content pieces. If you don’t like the platform or the resources you can go to a search engine and type in “site like _________” and see what 10,000 different places come up for you. Some of these links will take you to apps and some will take you to software.  Grammarly   How to create a .pdf   How to create a buyers guide   How to create a youtube channel   Link shortner   Podcast hosting – free Podbean Anchor Buzzsprout   Places to put your RSS feed   Snappa (Thumbnails)   Free audio editing program audacity   Voice recording – transcription otter.ai rev.com   Create an image video    Pexels (stock photo)   Create infographics software   Pixlr (image edit)   Powtoon (video maker)   Tinytake.com (Free screen recording)   Loom – (video creation)   Prezi (build presentations)   Free stock music   Free stock video   How to set up 3 point lighting   Book Creation and self printing  Take the content you have built and turn it into a book – Look for Julie Broad to help with this.    Tools needed – these are paid Logitech camera ($25)   Audio Technicha ATR 21002 ($99)   Focusrite – Solo ($100)   Cell phone mount – square jellyfish ($16)   Mini tripod reti cam ($35)   Cowboy studio ($80)  

iTunes may be dead, but Apple Podcasts is doing just fine. Changes are afoot at Apple, announced at WWDC last week and we’ve got all the information you need. Stick around to hear why you want to use WordPress and PowerPress to power your podcast. Mike and Todd were even both in the same time zone this time around to record. Don’t miss them reviewing push vs. pull technology too! Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com. We love our PowerPress users, please leave us a review  News:  APPLE APPLE APPLE It’s official: Apple is killing iTunes as a whole on Mac desktops (iTunes software for Windows, etc.) Categories: They’re updating categories later this year. No need to stress. New Images: Adding new images for podcast posts. We’ll have more details later on. Transcription Search: They’ll be adding this feature to the Podcasts app. iTunes Tags: Changes for the above updates. Topics: Advantages of Being on WordPress and PowerPress with Blubrry Hosting. ( PowerPress *can* be used without Blubrry hosting if you HAVE to) Own your RSS feed by using PowerPress on YOUR domain. Stable platform that is updated regularly for new things in podcasting (like Apple Categories and tags). Not going out of business next week (or without notice). IAB v2.0 Certified Compliant stats. All kinds of support; we offer screen sharing to troubleshoot your issue. Ease of use: Post – Upload – Publish. Using your own domain means you cannot be “deplatformed” easily. Disadvantages of going with a less established platform. Support may be hard to get or nonexistent. You don’t own your RSS feed address. Company stability; no worries on if they’re going out of business in the future. They may submit your feed to the directories (easy) but you don’t own those listings (bad). May not keep up with the changes at Apple or other directories (cough Soundcloud cough) Beware of shiny object syndrome. Things may appear better than they actually are. Support: Directory issues: If an episode isn’t available in only one specific directory, AND you’ve given that directory ample time to update, it is most likely a problem with that app or directory. Please contact that team first. Spotify listings: Lately they’ve been slow updating shows with new episodes. Relax, nothing is wrong, as long as your episode is in your feed and is available in all the other directories. Spotify is just lagging at the time of this recording. By the time you hear this it’s possible the problem has been fixed. All podcast directories and apps utilize your RSS feed. When you update your RSS feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscriber software, all check YOUR RSS feed to see if something is new. It’s not an instant technology like we’re used to with Twitter, Instagram, posting blog posts. etc. It’s common for people to have the wrong impression of how RSS feeds work, thinking they PUSHES out to everyone. It does not. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing. Your subscribers are subscribed to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again – they use it simply for the listening capability. They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. Subscribe to your own show and take care to notice if you receive your new episodes right away. If so, everything is working correctly. It works the same as every other directory or app. There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. This will display the contents of the feed and what is in directories and apps at the time. To ask questions or to comment on the show, you can contact Todd or Mike here: yourpodcast@blubrry.com.

iTunes may be dead, but Apple Podcasts is doing just fine. Changes are afoot at Apple, announced at WWDC last week and we’ve got all the information you need. Stick around to hear why you want to use WordPress and PowerPress to power your podcast. Mike and Todd were even both in the same time zone this time around to record. Don’t miss them reviewing push vs. pull technology too! Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com. We love our PowerPress users, please leave us a review  News:  APPLE APPLE APPLE It’s official: Apple is killing iTunes as a whole on Mac desktops (iTunes software for Windows, etc.) Categories: They’re updating categories later this year. No need to stress. New Images: Adding new images for podcast posts. We’ll have more details later on. Transcription Search: They’ll be adding this feature to the Podcasts app. iTunes Tags: Changes for the above updates. Topics: Advantages of Being on WordPress and PowerPress with Blubrry Hosting. ( PowerPress *can* be used without Blubrry hosting if you HAVE to) Own your RSS feed by using PowerPress on YOUR domain. Stable platform that is updated regularly for new things in podcasting (like Apple Categories and tags). Not going out of business next week (or without notice). IAB v2.0 Certified Compliant stats. All kinds of support; we offer screen sharing to troubleshoot your issue. Ease of use: Post – Upload – Publish. Using your own domain means you cannot be “deplatformed” easily. Disadvantages of going with a less established platform. Support may be hard to get or nonexistent. You don’t own your RSS feed address. Company stability; no worries on if they’re going out of business in the future. They may submit your feed to the directories (easy) but you don’t own those listings (bad). May not keep up with the changes at Apple or other directories (cough Soundcloud cough) Beware of shiny object syndrome. Things may appear better than they actually are. Support: Directory issues: If an episode isn’t available in only one specific directory, AND you’ve given that directory ample time to update, it is most likely a problem with that app or directory. Please contact that team first. Spotify listings: Lately they’ve been slow updating shows with new episodes. Relax, nothing is wrong, as long as your episode is in your feed and is available in all the other directories. Spotify is just lagging at the time of this recording. By the time you hear this it’s possible the problem has been fixed. All podcast directories and apps utilize your RSS feed. When you update your RSS feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscriber software, all check YOUR RSS feed to see if something is new. It’s not an instant technology like we’re used to with Twitter, Instagram, posting blog posts. etc. It’s common for people to have the wrong impression of how RSS feeds work, thinking they PUSHES out to everyone. It does not. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing. Your subscribers are subscribed to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again – they use it simply for the listening capability. They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. Subscribe to your own show and take care to notice if you receive your new episodes right away. If so, everything is working correctly. It works the same as every other directory or app. There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. This will display the contents of the feed and what is in directories and apps at the time. To ask questions or to comment on the show, you can contact Todd or Mike here: yourpodcast@blubrry.com.

iTunes may be dead, but Apple Podcasts is doing just fine. Changes are afoot at Apple, announced at WWDC last week and we’ve got all the information you need. Stick around to hear why you want to use WordPress and PowerPress to power your podcast. Mike and Todd were even both in the same time zone this time around to record. Don’t miss them reviewing push vs. pull technology too! Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com. We love our PowerPress users, please leave us a review  News:  APPLE APPLE APPLE It’s official: Apple is killing iTunes as a whole on Mac desktops (iTunes software for Windows, etc.) Categories: They’re updating categories later this year. No need to stress. New Images: Adding new images for podcast posts. We’ll have more details later on. Transcription Search: They’ll be adding this feature to the Podcasts app. iTunes Tags: Changes for the above updates. Topics: Advantages of Being on WordPress and PowerPress with Blubrry Hosting. ( PowerPress *can* be used without Blubrry hosting if you HAVE to) Own your RSS feed by using PowerPress on YOUR domain. Stable platform that is updated regularly for new things in podcasting (like Apple Categories and tags). Not going out of business next week (or without notice). IAB v2.0 Certified Compliant stats. All kinds of support; we offer screen sharing to troubleshoot your issue. Ease of use: Post – Upload – Publish. Using your own domain means you cannot be “deplatformed” easily. Disadvantages of going with a less established platform. Support may be hard to get or nonexistent. You don’t own your RSS feed address. Company stability; no worries on if they’re going out of business in the future. They may submit your feed to the directories (easy) but you don’t own those listings (bad). May not keep up with the changes at Apple or other directories (cough Soundcloud cough) Beware of shiny object syndrome. Things may appear better than they actually are. Support: Directory issues: If an episode isn’t available in only one specific directory, AND you’ve given that directory ample time to update, it is most likely a problem with that app or directory. Please contact that team first. Spotify listings: Lately they’ve been slow updating shows with new episodes. Relax, nothing is wrong, as long as your episode is in your feed and is available in all the other directories. Spotify is just lagging at the time of this recording. By the time you hear this it’s possible the problem has been fixed. All podcast directories and apps utilize your RSS feed. When you update your RSS feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscriber software, all check YOUR RSS feed to see if something is new. It’s not an instant technology like we’re used to with Twitter, Instagram, posting blog posts. etc. It’s common for people to have the wrong impression of how RSS feeds work, thinking they PUSHES out to everyone. It does not. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing. Your subscribers are subscribed to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again – they use it simply for the listening capability. They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. Subscribe to your own show and take care to notice if you receive your new episodes right away. If so, everything is working correctly. It works the same as every other directory or app. There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. This will display the contents of the feed and what is in directories and apps at the time. To ask questions or to comment on the show, you can contact Todd or Mike here: yourpodcast@blubrry.com.

This is the last Mises Weekends episode! But don't despair, Jeff will soon be back with a brand new format: The Human Action Podcast. The new show is not radically different, but focuses more exclusively on Austrian economics, its great books, and its great thinkers — with longer, more in-depth interviews. But don't take our word for it, tune in next week to the first show with David Gordon! Your RSS-fed platforms like Stitcher and SoundCloud will continue to support the new show, while Mises.org will still host both streaming and downloadable audio files. And your iTunes subscription will redirect you from Mises Weekends to The Human Action Podcast. This week Jeff takes a hard look at socialism and why it seems to gain greater support in the US and across the West. Do people really understand socialism as Mises did, and do they really want collective ownership of industry? Or do they just want what he termed "pseudo-socialist" economic systems that redistribute wealth? What motivates socialists? And how do they reconcile their moralizing self-regard with the doctrine that socialism is inevitable and inexorable? Mises's Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Jeff Deist on why support for socialism persists.]]>

This is the last Mises Weekends episode! But don't despair, Jeff will soon be back with a brand new format: The Human Action Podcast. The new show is not radically different, but focuses more exclusively on Austrian economics, its great books, and its great thinkers — with longer, more in-depth interviews. But don't take our word for it, tune in next week to the first show with David Gordon! Your RSS-fed platforms like Stitcher and SoundCloud will continue to support the new show, while Mises.org will still host both streaming and downloadable audio files. And your iTunes subscription will redirect you from Mises Weekends to The Human Action Podcast. This week Jeff takes a hard look at socialism and why it seems to gain greater support in the US and across the West. Do people really understand socialism as Mises did, and do they really want collective ownership of industry? Or do they just want what he termed "pseudo-socialist" economic systems that redistribute wealth? What motivates socialists? And how do they reconcile their moralizing self-regard with the doctrine that socialism is inevitable and inexorable? Mises's Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Jeff Deist on why support for socialism persists.

This is the last Mises Weekends episode! But don't despair, Jeff will soon be back with a brand new format: The Human Action Podcast. The new show is not radically different, but focuses more exclusively on Austrian economics, its great books, and its great thinkers — with longer, more in-depth interviews. But don't take our word for it, tune in next week to the first show with David Gordon! Your RSS-fed platforms like Stitcher and SoundCloud will continue to support the new show, while Mises.org will still host both streaming and downloadable audio files. And your iTunes subscription will redirect you from Mises Weekends to The Human Action Podcast. This week Jeff takes a hard look at socialism and why it seems to gain greater support in the US and across the West. Do people really understand socialism as Mises did, and do they really want collective ownership of industry? Or do they just want what he termed "pseudo-socialist" economic systems that redistribute wealth? What motivates socialists? And how do they reconcile their moralizing self-regard with the doctrine that socialism is inevitable and inexorable? Mises's Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Jeff Deist on why support for socialism persists.

Your RSS feed isn't broken! We've been looking into working on some additional types of show for everyone as a way to do more in general as well cater to more audiences. To that end, here's a new podcast! Our goal with The AAA Podcast is to get to the heart of what makes that period between a game's announcement and release so much fun: the discussion. What features you think it'll have, which ones you hope it won't, and of course the clearly impossible never in a million years curve-ball that you would put in the game if you had any say in the matter. We really hope you guys like this first pilot episode. Please feel free to send us any (and we mean ANY) feedback you have on it, as this is something very different for us and we want to hear from you on ways to make it good. As always, thanks for listening.

Click here for a transcript of this episode. In our premiere episode, we take a look at 10cc's biggest hit, "I'm Not In Love". We'll talk about: What does that title mean, anyway? Where did that ethereal sound come from? What's the story behind the band's name? Your RSS feed should have the post by now, but you can always listen to it right here: I think we can all tell that it's been several years since I've been behind a microphone. It gets better, I swear. Some of the sources behind this week's show: An interview with Graham Gouldman, songwriter and 10cc band member. George Tremlett (1976). The 10cc Story. Futura. ISBN 978-0-86007-378-9. Band name origin: Snopes.com, "10cc"". Snopes.com. Retrieved 10 August 2010. "Interview with Kevin Godley, Rock N Roll Universe online interview, April 2007". Rocknrolluniverse.com. Retrieved 10 August 2010. "Godley & Creme interviewed in Pulse magazine, April 1988". Minestrone.org. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2010. Bossa Nova version, Kathy Redfern’s contribution: Buskin, Richard (June 2005). "Classic Tracks: 10cc – 'I'm Not in Love'". Sound on Sound. Cambridge, England: SOS Publications: 62–69. Retrieved 21 September 2015. Chromatic Scale recordings: Presenters: Richard Allinson and Steve Levine (9 May 2009). "The Record Producers – 10cc". The Record Producers. Season 3. Episode 4. BBC. BBC Radio 2. Jump to Mercury Records: "I Write The Songs". The10ccfanclub.com. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

Why show zero? This is so that when you are setting up your podcast feed, you can get the feed going with a short show introduction. This is good for letting everyone know what your show is going to be about. Your RSS feed isn't valid until you have an episode in it.  This will give you something for your feed so you can submit your feed to iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry and wherever else before you officially launch. This show is going to be 1 - 5 minute, single topic quick hit tips about your podcast, your podcast website and news items for the podcasting community.  It will be released as produced on no particular schedule.. Be sure you subscribe to both, this show and to the main Podcast Help Desk feed over on the subscribe page.

This week I had a lot of questions from new and prospective podcasters that show that, even though podcasting has been around a while (10 years), people seem to have trouble with how it works. So I am going to explain it in very basic terms. This would be a good episode to pass on to people you know who ask you about how podcasting works, what it is, and how it DOESN'T work. Ok, The first thing about podcasting you should understand is, that it is driven by the RSS feed. What is an RSS feed? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. What that means is that it's a file on the web (either static or dynamically generated) in XML format. It contains “posts” or “items” in reverse order newest first and oldest last. RSS is a standard where the content is not formatted in a particular way as how it's displayed. It's just the raw content (mostly text) and the receiving program (RSS Readers) format it for display on a screen. The raw RSS was never meant for humans to see. It's meant for machines to see, interpret and display as they see fit. For podcasting, Dave Winer (who invented RSS) added some magic to RSS to allow “enclosures” which can be any sort of file that once delivered to an RSS reader would download to the local users device (at that time computers only). This is what allows us to enclose our mp3 files in the RSS feed for delivery to our listeners. (works the same for video files) So basicly how this works for Real people is like a Radio. Your RSS feed is the transmitter and the listener's Podcatching software is the receiver. They “Tune” (subscribe) to your RSS feed just like you might tune your radio to 98.1 to listen to the Bob and Tom show on your local radio station. The difference is you can “Tune” your podcatcher to more than one station at a time and it “records” (downloads) the show for playback later kind of like a DVR would for a tv show, that can be played back at a later time. The podcatching software all works a bit differently from one another, but uses the same basic method to get your podcast files to the listener. Some now allow streaming of your files so instead of downloading the whole file before you play it, it plays it on demand. Apps like Stitcher, Tunein and even Apple's “Podcasting” IOS app can do this. (I prefer to download the files so I don't' have to use up my data plan when I'm away from wifi on my phone) The import part is to have your RSS feed formated correctly so that all these podcatching software apps can read it correctly. In 2005, Apple added podcast support to iTunes and we have never been the same since! The only issue at that time was they added some iTunes specific tags that needed to be there for the podcast to look right in iTunes. If you use a plugin like Powerpress, and fill out all the settings, all those tags will be there in the correct place and your show will look right on those apps. While we're on the subject of iTunes, I want to re-iterate that you do not UPLOAD to iTunes. You do not have an iTunes feed. Just because the iTunes store doesn't LIST your episode, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. People get so worried about what iTunes shows in their listings they don't realize that the listing isn't the important part. It's the RSS feed. People who subscribe to your show in iTunes are subscribed DIRECTLY to your rss feed. The iTunes store (where your listing lives) doesn't update in real-time. If I put out a podcast at 3pm on Friday afternoon, at 301pm it will be available to be downloaded via someone subscribed in iTunes. The listing might not update for 2 hours or 2 days. Media Hosting / Web hosting Your web page (if you are doing it the way I suggest) is where your RSS feed lives. The place where your media files (mp3's) live can be anywhere that is accessible on the web. To be included on iTunes, there are some other requirements for the server, but if you use a good media host (such as blubrry.com) that is all taken care of. In fact,

Hey, everyone!  This blog page will be going away soon.  Your RSS feeds will continue to work just as they have been, but all the cool info about this episode (and future installments of the podcast) will be at http://www.artc.org/topic/podcast/ and we'll work on getting podcast.artc.org to point to that location as well. Thanks for listening, and we look forward to seeing you at the new ARTC.org!

Hey, everyone!  This blog page will be going away soon.  Your RSS feeds will continue to work just as they have been, but all the cool info about this episode (and future installments of the podcast) will be at http://www.artc.org/topic/podcast/ and we'll work on getting podcast.artc.org to point to that location as well. Thanks for listening, and we look forward to seeing you at the new ARTC.org!