Comments on: Podcast Clean-Up Series: The Accessible iTunes Podcast Page

By: @TokyoPodcast

@TokyoPodcast — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:28:56 +0000

Another tip is to check your iTunes pages in different countries by clicking the flag button in the lower right corner of the iTunes app. My default account was for the Canadian iTunes store and I was a little bummed to not see any reviews of my new podcast until I checked other countries and saw a lot of reviews in the Japan, UK and American stores.

By: Elsie

Elsie — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:26:00 +0000

Sorry for the delayed response. I wanna make sure I get you the optimal answer. Hope to get you an answer here very soon!

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:01:56 +0000

I would love to know the answer to the by "Unknown" question myself as my show is currently suffering the same fate. My landing page looks PERFECT on Zune.net and a majority of the other podcast directories. I can't understand why iTunes is so different. Especially considering the fact that Libsyn sets everything up correctly specifically for iTunes.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:23:17 +0000

There are a few parts of the RSS feed that I'm not sure how to edit through Libsyn. For instance, iTunes thinks we are a podcast by "Unknown." How do I edit the raw RSS feed?

By: tjaman

tjaman — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:26:10 +0000

Verr' awesome. 🙂

By: Elsie

Elsie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:50:27 +0000

When I first published my podcast the first and only review that I received was a scathing HORRIBLE review. I was mortified. So I resorted to what I knew best: I cried….and then I emailed some of my bestest podcaster friends and asked them to please leave me honest reviews that didn't rip me apart. That took the pressure off 🙂

One thing that's really good is to make it a part of your intro or your outro, really natural, kinda like: "if you want to contact the show our voice feedback line is xxx-xxxxx our email is blah blah and if you're wanna give the show some love leave us a review in iTunes" something like that.

I really LOVED what Dave said right below your comment. If you haven't see his comment, you should. Great idea 🙂

By: Elsie

Elsie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:45:48 +0000

Dave, that was awesome

By: Elsie

Elsie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:45:27 +0000

Ian, I totally hear you. I've heard while listening to other podcasts that there's actually a bug in iTunes that they are aware of. There are certain, random podcasts that are not being updated, but those that are subscribed are getting the updates. The podcasters that have noticed this issue have contacted Apple and they have said that they are on it….now when that is solved or the podcasts updated….who knows 🙁

I'd say just wait another week, if you still don't have any updates, come on back over here and let us know, maybe we can figure out something to do!

By: Ian Smith

Ian Smith — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:51:42 +0000

Any tips on how to ensure the iTunes page does get updated. For a couple of weeks it was only showing the first episode of my podcast even though iTunes subscribers were getting the 2nd and 3rd weekly episodes in the series. Then there's the photo. I've just got that useless generic icon, despite the fact it showed me the correct logo icon when I submitted the feed for approval. Looking on the Apple forums I see lots of folks with the same issue and all I keep reading is that the web page is maintained on a much slower, cached server so it can take a long time for updates (or even the image you submitted) to appear. It's very frustrating!

By: Dave Mansueto

Dave Mansueto — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:39:27 +0000

Ask for some Valentines day love, you deserve it! "If you enjoy this podcast, you can support the show by leaving an itunes rating and telling friends about it through email, facebook and twitter." Or point them this way: http://imake.Libsyn.com/the-season-of-giving-give…