Podcast Audio Video Blog FAQ

The Static FrontPage option allows a user to set a specific Page to be the Home Page. So rather than visiting your site and seeing a list of latest episodes(posts), the visitor can be presented with for example a nice introductory main page as to what your site or podcast is all about.

Before proceeding, make sure you have already written a page to use as the Front Page.

1. From the menu, navigate to Settings-> Display
2. Under Front Page Display, check the static page option.
3. Select the page you would like to display from the Front page drop down.
4. Optional: Select the Posts page that will list your most recent posts. Normally set this to a blank page because the page content will be populated with latest posts.

The podcast tips from O’Reilly Network is widely adopted by many popular podcasters, which is no surprise because it plainly states the most important technique and concern to improve your podcasts.

They are:

• Get a Real Microphone
• Get Close, But Not Too Close
• Prepare, But Don’t Script
• Reduce The Noise
• Come Up with a Format
• Talk to Your Friends and Listeners
• Do It on a Schedule
• Slow Down and Relax
• Bring a Friend
• Detail, Detail, Detail

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If you have a business podcast account with Podbean, you can easily setup your podcast to be private, thus, only accessible to your targeted audience. The steps are as following:

Log into your account. Set your channel privacy to “private” under menu:Settings->General. Well done. Your podcast becomes private now.

Next, you may want to add some private members, It’s still easy do that through menu:Settings->Add Members, obviously menu:Settings->Manage Members is where you can manage these members.

After a private member is created, a notification email will be sent out with the login information, then, follow the link in the email, the members can easily view and subscribe your private podcast, as well as change their login password.

If you have a business podcast account with Podbean, you can easily create multiple podcast channels in one account. The steps to create a new Podcast channel are as following:

Log into your account. Click on “Account” tab on the rightmost position of the menu-bar.

Top of the screen now looks like as follows.

Click on the “Create a new channel” link. Following screen appears.

Type in a name, should be a single word without any blank characters and click on the “Create Channel” button. A channel name “primechannel” was typed in as an example. A new channel with the given name is now created.

The new channel name would appear in the drop down list at “Select a channel”. Click on the name to go to the new channel.

You’ll be presented with the log in screen. Log in with your user name and password and you are on the new channel page.

You should see the page title changed to the new channel name, such as, “primechannel” in this example.

GEO Distribution Pie provides podcasters an accurate measure of where the audience comes from.

Please note this feature is only available for business user.

Site Visitors, as it’s called, gives the number of visitors to your podcast site. To prevent any type of fake or redundant data, any number of visitors with the same IP address will be counted only once in a 24-hour period.

Subscribers Stats provides an approximate measure of the number of individuals currently subscribed to your feed. It’s based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested by many different feed readers (ex:google reader) and podcatchers(ex:iTunes) in a 24-hour period. Another good news is our stats filter system will filter out requests from browsers or bots to give you a more reliable results.

Episode Hits gives publishers a bird’s-eye view into the performance of each episode. More precisely, different type of reach will be categorized into three areas: feed, download and streaming. Feed reflects the number of times your content is fetched via a subscribed Feed; Download is the number of times that your content files are downloaded directly through the web; While streaming is the number of times that your content files are played online in your podcast site or via embedded players.

You may follow the steps hereafter to set your own domain for your Podbean Podcast site:

1. Register a domain with a domain registrar, such as, www.godaddy.com, www.easydns.com.
2. Host your domain with a DNS service provider, such as, www.easydns.com (recommended), www.zoneedit.com .
3. In your domain registar account(e.g. your godaddy account), set your domain to use your DNS service provider Name Servers. You may find EasyDNS name servers at here.
4. In your DNS service account, set an Alias to map your domain to your podbean site. For example, your domain name is mydomain.com and your Podbean username is demo. If you want to use the URL http://www.mydomain.com for your Podcast, you can set an Alias (CNAME) record as:

   www (map to) username.podbean.com.

   In easydns.com, you can set an Alias as hereafter:
   

5. Set your own domain in your Podbean account by clicking “Set Own Domain” link in the “Account” page.
6. It will take several hours to 48 hours for your DNS to be propogated through the Internet.
7. You may also set web forwarding to forward your domain to your Podbean site. This will direct your domain site vistors to your Podbean site, however, the url will still be shown as the Podbean site. Only above domain alias setting will change the URL to be your own domain one.

Podcasters wanting to simplify the Facebook publishing process can relax. Podbean.com offers a free and easy way to publish and manage all of your podcast projects. To get started, just log in and choose “Manage” from your Dashboard. You’ll see a sub-tab called “Embeddable Player.

Click the link that says “Click here to share on Facebook” and you’ll see your Facebook login. Sign in to your Facebook account and you’ll see the following Podcast Player set up screen:

You can choose a black or white skin and preview it by clicking “Get Player”. Once you’ve chosen your skin, click “Show this player in Profile” at the bottom of the set up screen.

You should then see your Facebook profile page with your Podcast Player embedded. It may take a few hours for your podcast to show up so don’t worry if you can’t see it right away. The Podbean podcast player also comes with an “Embed Once, Use Forever” feature that means you don’t have to install new players to display new podcasts. Instead, your embedded player will automatically update when you add or change your podcast selections.

Want to publicize your podcasts?

Click the “Share” button at top right of the player and you can share your new Podbean podcast to your Facebook friends right away.

Just plug in your friend’s name or email address and viola! You’ve just publicized your podcast! There’s also a link to post your player on a friend’s wall. Your Podcast Player also comes with a “subscribe” feature so your friends and family will always know the minute you add a new podcast episode.