Step 1. After you launch FileZilla you should get such screen:

As you can see, the interface is not too complicated. On the left you can see your local folder tree (teal frame) and selected folder content (green frame).

To configure FileZilla to connect to your Podbean FTP account please click on the small computer icon on top left (red arrow).

Step 2. A Site Manager window will show up.

Click on New Site button and enter a name for the new connection settings, e.g. “Podbean FTP”. (It can be really anything, it’s just so that you know where it takes you to ).

Step 3. Now you need to fill in the connection details (marked with red arrows).

Please get your FTP server name in your Podbean “Account” page, enter it into the host name field, such as, ftp3.podbean.com
Your Server Type is FTP. Logontype is Normal.

Username and password are the ones provided in your Podbean “Account” page. Please DO NOT Copy&Paste your FTP user name and password. The Copy&Paste might include extra empty space and cause FTP login failure. Please type your FTP user name and password into FileZilla.

If you’re not using your computer or you share your pc with other people and you don’t want them to be able to connect to your site you can select the option not to remember your password (underlined with blue).

Once you’re sure the settings are correct click Save and Exit button.

Step 4. Now After you returned to main program window click small arrow next to the computer icon top left to see drop-down menu. Pick your website from the list to connect.

Step 5. Connection established. Now find files you want to upload on your local machine (left-side folder tree and content).

Simply select the files and drag-and-drop them to the right of the screen (your ftp folder).

Or you can right click the file name and choose “upload” from the pop up menu.

You will notice the transfer progress on the bottom of the screen. If all is OK, your FileZilla window will show the files you uploaded on the right.

Step 6. If the FTP connection broken before finishing the file uploading. Rather than uploading the whole file again, FileZilla allows you to resume uploading from last broken point. To resume the uploading, just try to upload the file again and choose the “Resume” option in the pop up window.

If you want to embed your podcast into other blog sites, such as, wordpress.com, blogspot.com etc, you may need to get URLs of your uploaded audios and videos.

To get the URLs of your uploaded audios and videos, you can click “Upload” tab in your Podbean dashborad to get into Media Manager Page. On the media manager page, you can click a file name to get a pop up window which shows the URL of this file.

When I visit our users’ blog and podcast sites, I found this interesting slide show created by JPeg Chatham.  This slideshow will help you to set up a Podbean account.

You can change the numbe of episodes(posts) in your Podcast site and feed by clicking “Settings” tab in your Podbean dashboard. Then click “Display”.  You then can set the number of posts to be displayed in your site and in your feed. Please notice a too large feed might be denied by other sites, such as, iTunes.

The “report bots” is for users to report traffic source that is believed coming from Robots. It lets you distinguish the traffic from human being and Robots. One user report will not block this traffic. When a certain number of users report the same source as Robots. Then all traffic from this source will be removed from user Statistic data.

Please notice “report bots” is not the same as “SPAM reporting”. If you want to report a SPAM traffic, please contact us.

It is simple to import Podcast posts from other sites into your Podbean account. Click “Manage” Tab in your Podbean Dashboard. Then click “Import” sub-tab. Enter the podcast RSS feed URL and click “Import” button. That’s all. Check your site, you should see the imported posts now.

Please notice that the audio and video files will not be imported automatically. You need to upload them into your Podbean account. Then edit the respective post and add the audio or video into the post.

You can create your own home page, eStore page, Premium Podcast Subscribing page in Podbean.

To create a page simply click “Publish” Tab in your Podbean dashboard, then click “Write Page” . Please notice the Page Title will be used in your Podbean site Tab.

For eStore and Premium page, you can copy & paste the embed code from your eStore and Premium products detail page. This will put a “Buy Now” or “Subscription” button on your page. Users can click the button and pay you directly in Paypal.

A simple way to set up your own domain is to use www.easydns.com service to register your domain and manage your DNS at the same place.

In your easydns.com account, you can set a CNAME entry as hereafter and you are done. In this example, it will map http://www.mydomain.com to http://demo.podbean.com .

If you use other domain registar, you may add a CNAME DNS entry as hereafter into your DNS record.

podcast CNAME username.podbean.com

Above CNAME entry will map http://podcast.mydomain.com to http://username.podbean.com

If your domain is registered with GoDaddy.com, you may set up CNAME record by following the instructions at How to set up Podbean Podcast own domain mapping in GoDaddy.

It is easy to embed a YouTube video in your Podbean site. If you are a paid user, you can simply copy&paste youtube embed code into your post. Make sure you use “HTML” mode in “Publish” when you copy the youtube embed code.

If you are a Free user, you can embed YouTube vide by following the instructions hereafter:

Find the video clip you want to embed and look for the URL of this Video (NOT the Embed link).

Copy the URL.

Put that between “[youtube=” and “]”  to make  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ykWbu2Gl0]

You must remove the space inside the square brackets. The space will cause the problem to show the video clip.

So put this: youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ykWbu2Gl0 inside[ ] square brackets.

and the video will work.

FTP Steps:

Step 1. Get FTP server name, FTP user name and password in your “Account” page by clicking “Account” tab in your Podbean dashboard.

Step 2. Download and install a FTP software, such as, Filezilla . If you are using Windows XP, please download Filezilla_2.2.32 at here. Filezilla 3.0 and above versions have unstable performance in Windows XP.

Step 3. Upload files with your FTP software. You can find instructions on how to upload files with Filezilla at here. Please DO NOT Copy&Paste your FTP user name and password. The Copy&Paste might include extra empty space and cause FTP login failure. Please type your FTP user name and password into Filezilla or other FTP software.

Step 4. Import FTP uploaded files into Media Manager by clicking “Upload”->”FTP Upload” tabs, then click the “Import FTP Uploaded Files” button.

If you use Mac OS, you may use Fetch to do FTP uploading.