Podcasting How To FAQ

You may configure the sidebar widget by following the steps hereafter:

1. Click "Layout"->"Sidebar Widget" tab in your Podbean dashboard.

2. Move the widget to the sidebar position as you like. Click the "configure button" of the widget (at the right side of the widget, looks like a small book).

3. A window will be pop up. You can fill the related configuration fields of the widget. Such as, fill your Google adsense id in the "Google Adsense" widget.

The rating only can be done on the single episode page — not on your Podbean podcast site home page. When you click the rating on the home page, it will lead you to the episode page to let you rate it.

In Podbean mobile podcast directory, following file formats are supported:

If you find your podcast is not listed in Podbean moible podcast directory. , please check if your audio video files are in above supported format.

In Podbean mobile podcast directory, following file formats are supported:

If you find your podcast is not listed in Podbean moible podcast directory. , please check if your audio video files are in above supported format.

To set your Podbean Facebook player linking to a new Podbean account, you may follow the steps as hereafter:
1. Remove "Podbean Podcast Player" application from your Facebook profile.
2. Close your browser and restart it. This will clear the browser cache.
3. Add "Podbean Podcast Player" to your Facebook profile again, this time enter the new Podbean account user name and password.

To remove episode hits and visits from your Podbean site, you can click "Settings" -> "Comments&Share" tab in your Podbean dashboard, then check off the "show episode hits" and "show visitor stats" option.

Podbean podcast directory is a Social Subscribing Podcast directory. Tags of a podcast are added by subscribers. If there is no subscribers to your podcast in Podbean directory. Your podcast will show no tag in Podbean directory listing. Nevertheless, in Podcast detail page, podcast owner’s tags will be shown.

You can add a image-link to your sidebar as the "Subscribe with iTunes" button.

Step 1: Log into your Podbean dashboard.

Step 2: If you want to show the "Subscribe with iTunes" link with a image, you may upload an image first. For example, we upload an image called "subscribe-with-itunes.gif" in demo account.

Step 3: Click "Layout"->"Sidebar Links" tab in your Podbean dashboard, then click "Create Link" button.

Step 4: In "Create Link" page, fill the URI with "itpc://myusername.podbean.com/feed/" . Please replace "myusername" with your actual Podbean user name. Fill link name, short description, such as, "Subscribe with iTunes" . Select the image from the drop down menu.

Step 5: Click "Add Link" button.

If you check your site again, you will see a single "Subscribe with iTunes" button on your sidebar.

Please make sure your video is encoded in one of Podbean Player supported video formats. Currently following video formats are supported in the Podbean player: flv, and H.264 based mp4, m4v, mov, avi . Please notice, flv format is not supported by iTunes. If you want to make your video appeared in both iTunes and the Podbean player, please encode it with H.264 based mp4 or m4v format.

If you registered your domain in godaddy.com, you can set up own domain mapping following the steps hereafter:

Step 1. Log into your GoDaddy account, click "Domains" to show your domains. Then click the domain name that you want to set the own domain mapping. You will see a "Domain Manager" page as hereafter. Then click the "Total DNS control and MX record" link.

Step 2. If you want to set up domain mapping, such as, use http://www.mydomain.com for your Podbean podcast site. In "CNAMES(Aliases)" section, you click the "Edit" button at the right side of the "www" record line.

Step 3. Edit the "CNAME" record to map "www" to your podbean site, e.g. http://username.podbean.com. Set "alias name" as "www", host name as "username.podbean.com"

If you want to set a domain map, such as, http://podcast.mydomain.com map to your Podbean podcast site, you then need to add a CNAME record by clicking "Add new CNAME record" button.

In the "create new CNAME" page, enter the subdomain that you want to use. Such as, if you want to use http://podcast.mydomain.com map to your Podbean podcast site http://username.podbean.com , set "alias name" as "podcast", host name as "username.podbean.com"