Podcast Audio Video Blog FAQ

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.

In last couple months, the same question was asked almost daily by our users. Thus, we put the answer to this question here for everyone. This is not an official answer, since we don’t own or operate iTunes directory service. Based on our observation, it looks like iTunes take longer and longer time to update Podcasts. Sometimes, it takes more than one week. We tried various ways to stimulate iTunes to see if we can accelerate the updating process, but none gets obviously effects. So for now, just be patient and wait. iTunes will pick up your podcast and update it. Or you may contact iTunes to see if you can get any support on this issue. If you get any positive answer, please update us. We will post it here for all Podcasters.

Podbean.com support users own html tags, thus html tags that you put in your post DO matters.

The most possible reason that your site get malformed is because of the mismatched <div> tags , such as, you put a open <div> tag without a closing </div>
tag, or verse visa. A quick fix of this problem could be temporally removing your posts from your site one by one and check if your Podcast site looks normal after one post removed. If it gets normal, you know which post cause the problem. You then turn off the rich editor by check it off in "Settings" and edit the problem post to fix any malformed tags.

The second most possible reason is the oversized images. If one of your images width is larger than the post displaying area, your site will be malformed. This problem can be fixed by adding width in the image tag, such as, <img src=”…..”, width=”200”> </img>

To get the embed code of your Podcast Player, you simply click “Manage” tab, then “Embeddable Player” sub-tab. Select the color and size of the player and click “Get Embed Button”.

To get the embed code of the Podcast Player for a single episode, you click “Manage” tab, then “Posts” sub-tab, click the “embed code” button at right side of the post.

Because the full screen uses javascript but some sites(ex:myspace) may block it for security purpose.

Yes. Just select your own image when publish. If not, we’ll generate it for you.