RSS Feeds Explained: How to Get Your Podcast Into All the Podcast Apps & Directories

Q: What is an RSS feed? An RSS feed is a formatted text document that contains all the important information about your show. It's hosted on a server somewhere (usually public) and has a URL so anyone can view or access its contents. It contains info about your show and your episodes: Things like your show’s title, description, episode titles, and links to the audio files for the episodes. It is possible to write and update an RSS feed yourself, but it’s time consuming and errors or typos can break things, so managing the RSS feed is usually handled by a podcast host. Q: Why do I need an RSS feed? The RSS feed is basically your show. Without it, you’ll just have blog posts or audio files, but no way for people to

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RSS Feeds Explained: How to Get Your Podcast Into All the Podcast Apps & Directories is an episode from The Podcast Dude by Aaron Dowd.

This episode is 12:21 long.

This episode was published on Nov 19, 2018.

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