PCA Tutorial : Claiming & Editing Your Podcast

PCA Tutorial : Claiming & Editing Your Podcast

Published by Chris McIntyre ( Nov 14th, 2006)

In order for you to edit your podcast at Podcast Alley, you need to be a registered user and you will need to "claim" your feed. Claiming your feed is basically a way of verifying that you are the owner or administrator of a show. You can submit your show to Podcast Alley without claiming it, but you will not be able to make changes to it or to take advantage of some of the advanced features at Podcast Alley.

Basic Steps needed to edit your feed on Podcast Alley

If your feed already is in the Podcast Alley directory you can follow these directions. If you are submitting a new show and want to claim it at the same time, go to page 2 (Submit & Claim) of this tutorial.

1. Browse to your page on Podcast Alley. On the left hand side you will see a link that reads "Claim this Feed". Click that link.

2. On the next page you will see some text inside of a gray box that looks like the following:

EXAMPLE:

You will need to copy this code (by highlighting it and right-clicking and selecting "copy") from your page.

3. Next, you will need to login to your blog, website, podcasting service or wherever it is that you create your podcast episodes at.

4. In a new post (or by editing an old post) paste the text you copied (from step 2 above) into the show notes or description of that post (by right-clicking and selecting "paste").

5. Save your blog post.

NOTE: If you are using feedburner to help you with your feed, you may need to wait a few minutes or login to their site and go to "Troubleshootize" and click "Resync Now" at the bottom of the page to get your new post to show up.

6. After you have done all of this, go back to your Podcast Alley claim page and click the "Retry to Claim" button.

7. If everything was done properly, this should add the podcast to your account and allow you to edit the details. From now on you should be able to go to your podcasts page and click on "Edit this Feed" to change your podcasts details.

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By alkhemy on Nov 28th, 2006, 04:14 PM

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How Do I Do This With XML or RSS File?

I don't have a blog associated with my podcast - just an XML file and a page that lets people play the podcast episodes directly. As far as I am aware, I can't add the cut & paste text to my XML file without causing a problem, so how should I do this in the XML file?

Peter

Edit: I figured it out... add the text to the description tag for one of the items in the XML. It worked.

Thanks

Last edited by alkhemy; Nov 28th, 2006 at 04:27 PM. Reason: Figured it out

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By theFerf on Nov 29th, 2006, 01:51 PM

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Glad you figured it out!

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By willygh on Dec 2nd, 2006, 12:47 AM

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Editing Only Parts and Deleting a Podcast

Two questions:
1. When I want to edit my feed, I'm only able to edit some parts, but not all the information. Whatsup with that?
2. Once I created a entry that was a duplicate of my one podcast. I need to delete it. How do I do that?

-William

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By theFerf on Dec 4th, 2006, 01:21 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by willygh

Two questions:
1. When I want to edit my feed, I'm only able to edit some parts, but not all the information. Whatsup with that?

Here is the short version:
We allow you to claim your feed in order to validate it, to change your feed URL and for you to get recommendations on how to make your feed better. We no longer require you to type in your show name, description, keywords, genre or any other details? it is now automatically gathered from your RSS feed! A few people think that this is a crippling effect or poor implementation. However, it is indeed a planned feature. For podcasters, your feed is of nearly unlimited value to you. Unless people find your show through your website (not very common), you need to give them the best information possible through your RSS feed. If there are errors in your feed, a poor description, missing contact information, missing album art or dozens of other issues, you are limiting your marketing efforts and potential audience.

>> You can read the full description as to why we do this in the Podcast Alley Blog.

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Originally Posted by willygh

Two questions:
2. Once I created a entry that was a duplicate of my one podcast. I need to delete it. How do I do that?

For this one, please send me a PM or an email to info@podcastalley.com with both of your URLs and the one you want to remove. I will validate your ownership and update for you

Last edited by theFerf; Dec 4th, 2006 at 01:24 PM.

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By jane on Dec 25th, 2006, 08:36 PM

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Critical Errors: how to fix

I don't understand what the message "CRITICAL Channel doesn't contain any enclosures (code: 2000)" is telling me or means. FeedValidator.org has validated my feed, and I haven't anything on Podcast Alley to help me to understand what this message means, or how to fix it!

Any help, please?

Thanks.

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By theofficealliance on Jan 3rd, 2007, 02:57 PM

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I'm having an odd issue with validating my feed. This one works and is currently being used:
http://theofficealliance.com/feed/

but not all podcasts are getting listed.

This is the one I'd prefer to use:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheOfficeAlliancePodcast

but it causes a bright red/pink error that no claim enclosure can be found in the feed.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

ETA: Well, it seems to be working. Weird. Thanks, anyway!

Last edited by theofficealliance; Jan 6th, 2007 at 06:21 PM.

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By phillipwilkerson on Jan 29th, 2007, 10:02 PM

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How do I find my podcast page?

It doesn't show up in the directory. I have submitted about 3 times now and no luck....

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By BrynM on Feb 2nd, 2007, 02:53 AM

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Missed the posts that weren't in the help forum

Sorry for the late responses, but I'm not normally subscribed to this thread. The best way to get tech support for validation is in the help forum.

Jane: Feedvalidator doesn't check the availability of the enclosures, just that the tags are correct. If you have access to your stats, you'll notice that the "PCA Feed Validator" accesses at least one of your enclosures during validation. If there was a network issue or we got bad response from your server, the error will be shown.

theofficealliance: Your feed will vlidate with just warning about your author tag now. If you have any trouble validating it, post in the help forum so we can keep track of the issue.

phillipwilkerson: Thanks for posting to the help forum. Hopefully, were getting you taken care of.

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By anythingghost on Feb 13th, 2007, 10:59 PM

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XML feed

I can't figure it out.
Where can I put this in an XML file?

Thanques!
Lex

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