Attracting Traffic to iWeb Podcast

I am going to start producing a Podcast in iWeb ( I have MobileMe). If I want to attract traffic to this Podcast am I making a mistake of using iWeb and should I find a different hosting service that can do a better job at attracting traffic. It seems from what I have read that may be the case. For example using Godaddy instead of mobileMe. I think I would be able to still use garage band to produce the podcast.

The only solution I know is downloading and setting up iWeb SEO tool you can get it here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/iwebseotool.html

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Downloading iWeb podcasts without "Subscribe" button?

My "enhanced" podcast (photos & audio) in an iWeb podcast page runs fine in a QT window. But what if I don't want a "Subscribe" button on my page or my podcast published on the iTunes Store?
...How can a visitor simply download the podcast (right now) to put in iTunes on their computer and perhaps then onto an iPod?
Control-clicking on the QT window gives the option of "Save as QuickTime Movie" only if the visitor has QT Pro. But is there a way for a visitor to download/save the m4a/m4b file as a podcast from my iWeb Podcast page?
(Perhaps I'm missing something really simple here.)
Thanks.

A workaround for non QuickTime Pro owners.
Archive the file (Finder will add .zip to its name) and then use the "Link to File" option of iWeb.
A .zip file will always download and open (expand) with a double click.
Drawback is that now two files must upload which wastes bandwidth and server space.

How do i get xml into my iWeb podcast?

i have my iWeb podcast on the iTMS and i didn't have a artist name in it, so i am wondering how i submit the xml i got from the podcasters technical support. i really want to put some of th new stuf on it.

figured it out

ITunes Looking for the "Title" of my iWeb Podcast Page/URL???

have created a podcast page in iWeb and tried to Submit to iTunes and now it asks for the Title of the Podcast???
Have filled in as many of the page names, file names as I think is possible and still get this message.
Any help would be appreciated.
Would be great if they had a link on the iTunes submit page that would tell us what to do on iWeb.

You are making your podcast in WordPress and submitting it to Feedburner to pass on to the Store. If you want to change the title you have to do this in WordPress: however it looks as if Feedburner generates the feed filename from the title:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInconvenientTruthFileInPodcastTheInconvenientTrut hExploringTheFactsBehindTheFictions
so if you change the title you will likely change the URL and iTunes will lose contact with the feed. I don't know whether it will do this (logically it shouldn't) but you would have to find that out from their Help (if any). Otherwise you can only try it and if the feed URL does change, change the title back.
As you don't have direct access to the Feedburner feed, then if Feedburner changes the URL you will not be able to add the redirection tag necessary to change iTunes to a different feed - so it's possible you may be stuck with what you've got.

Problem posting pdf's in iWeb podcast...

I have created an iWeb site to share lecture audio and video with my students. This has worked extremely well without any problems. But recently I tried to start adding pdf's to the podcast so they could see the lecture slides, notes, etc on their Touches or iPhones and iTunes does not see them on the Podcast feed. This is driving me nuts.
My usual method has been first to record the lecture audio, tweak it and add it to the podcast via iWeb. No problem. As a second step my students wanted the slides to look at on their Touches or iPhones while they listened. So after posting the audio, I started opening my lectures in Keynote "Share"ing them to iWeb as pdf's, then selecting the same podcast for a destination - iWeb creates a new entry with the pdf centrally located and everything. Should work perfectly right? Wrong.
The PDF is definitely viewable online so I'm sure it's being uploaded to the server. It's just the iTunes step that's breaking down, and my students can't podcast the pdf's on their Touches or iPhones.
I believe I'm adding the pdf's correctly - either sharing them directly from Keynote, or dragging and dropping them onto the single media placeholder, etc. Nothing works.
In desperation I've even tried creating a new podcast page for JUST the pdf's and iTunes doesn't see those pdf's either. I get the "there are no downloadable files at the url" message. However, I can then drop an audio or video file into that new podcast and iTunes sees it immediately, downloads it as usual, etc. So it's only with pdf's which I thought iTunes was able to podcast without difficulty.
I heard that iTunes 9 had some early trouble with pdf's but it was supposed to be fixed with last update.
Does ANYONE out there have any suggestions or fixes for this?
Please!?

My problem exactly. I have successfully combined video podcasts and teaching notes on the same podcast page and up to now they have worked brilliantly. Suddenly this does not work. The .pdf files don't come in to iTunes? Can anyone help me to resolve this?

IWeb podcasts not working in iWeb 08

I have been using iWeb 06 to put up podcasts for my church and now that I have a new iMac I was really excited to put the podcasts up using the new features in iWeb 08. However when I put the podcast in iWeb 08, it looks fine and even plays fine, I publish to a folder, just like I always did and I navigate to the page using safari, camino, ie etc. Then the page loads and where the quicktime bar should be is a whited out bar with a Q in the middle with a question mark. I noted this at home and on my work PC. I imported the podcasts the same way that I did with iWeb 06. The older podcasts that I put up using iWeb 06 work just fine. So I don't know what is wrong. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance

Most likely cause is "illegal" characters in your file names. Avoid spaces (use - or _). Don't use apostrophes or slashes ( / or '), quote marks, accented characters ( é ü) or any symbol.

IWeb Podcast - Drag and Drop Audio and Picture Files

I have been using iWeb the last few days to create a web site that includes some podcasts. I currently have three podcasts as a part of the site. I have been able to get two of the podcasts to work correctly but the third one, no matter how many times I recreate it seems to be where the difficulty lies.
The podcast page gives me the opportunity to drag and drop an audio file and a picture file onto the page. As best I can tell, when I drop the audio file onto the page, things seem to be fine. When I drop the picture file onto the object, the audio clip seems to disappear. I have tried dropping the picture file first with basically the same results.
A couple of more things. I created the original podcast file in GB3. I have found I can't import the podcasting file directly form GB because I end up with a very large file (>60GB) for the audio portion. So, I share the audio file to disk as an M4a file. When I add the audio to the podcast page in iWeb, I drag the audio file from Finder onto the object. The picture I have dropped onto the podcast page both from the Media Browser and from Finder. The results are the same.
Any help is appreciated.
Dave

I think you're asking the question in the wrong forum. From what you posted, there's nothing wrong with GB, you should post in the iWeb forum where you're more likely to get useful and accurate answers about, well, iWeb.

New site created in iWeb, Podcast works, but the Subscribe button doesn't!

Hi All,
I created a new site in iWeb at http://www.adamonearth.com be great if you could help out a little! I am very happy with the site turned out!
But I have been trying to get the Video Podcast subscription link to work for a while now, but the Podcast Subscribe button on my Video Podcast page does not work. For some reason iWeb adds in /adamonearth.com after the website domain, like this... itpc://www.adamonearth.com/adamonearth.com/Video%20Podcast/rss.xml
So if you go to my site at http://www.adamonearth.com and click onto Video Podcast the Subscribe button is on there.
iWeb won't allow me to edit it either. Be great if you know of any ideas to amend it!
Also be great if you let me know what you think of the site overall.
Cheers.
Adam.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi Tom,
Thanks so much for all your help, I really appreciate it.
I fixed the name of the site and called it 'Holly' I now have the Video Podcast link working but one problem, when you enter the website address:
http://www.adamonearth.com
It goes to the Index Of/ page then you need to select 'Holly' which is the folder name for it to divert to the Welcome.html page.
I have put up a directory listing for you http://www.adamonearth.com/54512.tiff
I have tried moving the Welcome.html page above the Holly folder but that then does not link to the other pages correctly.
From what I can see I have done everything right this time, as the Podcast link works in iTunes now.
Any help would be great.
Thanks again,
Adam.

Artwork related to iWeb / podcast production

I've read recent postings on problems with artwork (not) showing up in iTunes Store etc... BUT - I have a different question / issue I think. I've done three podcasts on iTunes for the last 1-2 years but using all separate softwares to record, create, upload and create RSS feeds. All have worked flawlessly. But about a week ago, after realizing how 'upgraded' iWeb has become over the last "X" months / years, I decided to utilize iWeb as my podcast publisher / RSS creator etc...
The podcasts work fine. But here;s the issue / question: When I click "submit podcast to iTunes" (while in iWeb), a box appears asking for final information etc... The artwork appeared the first time and I submitted. When I did the 2nd podcast, the artwork (all formated and sized properly according to iTunes etc...) DID NOT appear at this juncture. I submitted anyway and the podcast was approved and worked "anyway". Has anyone else had this issue and if so, am I doing something wrong? Is there a way at this point I can go in and fix, repair or submit other artwork - bearing in mind I'm doing this via iWeb and not as a stand alone RSS like I'd done previously.
LINK: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=270098106
Thanks in advance for any advice.
[email protected]

Sorry to hear but glad to know that I'm not the only one having problems with this issue. I only submitted a new Podcast last week, with all the same settings and Art cover as I have on all before, went on to submit saw my Art cover as it should be when you get that little drop down, then when it finally appeared on good old iTunes not only was the Art cover missing ( ended up with the Purple Podcast icon ) but I had 3 new Podcasts all with the wrong Art work, considering I only submitted 1 podcast can't quiet work out why iTunes put 3 there, oh and the feed address was wrong too when you clicked on 'website' took you to another Podcast series, good hey !!!!
Steve

Help- Changing iweb podcasting site and adding feedburner

I set up a podcast with iweb then realized I wanted to change a few things.
1. I want to change the website name in iweb from "Site 2" to "Awake Podcast"
When I do this it changes the feed, and I can't access the old feed.
2. I wanted to change the feed to feedburner so I can track the podcast.
How do I do this? What order? Which feed to I adjust? What code do I need to add?
I'm new at this. Any help would be appreciated.
Justin

In order to change iTunes to a different feed (and as you've found changing the site name in iWeb changes the feed URL by changing its name) you have to add a special tag to the feed:
<itunes:new-feed-url>URL OF YOUR NEW FEED</itunes:new-feed-url>
This can't be done within iWeb which doesn't allow you to tamper with the feed. Download the existing feed from the server, Open it in TextEdit *IN PLAIN TEXT MODE* not Rich Text. Add the tag just below the 'channel' tag near the top of the feed (on a new line). The URL must be full and include the http://
Upload the feed manually to the server, replacing the existing feed.
Now change the name of the podcast site in iWeb and do a complete republish. Make sure that it hasn't over-written or removed the modified feed: you may need to upload it again, and you may need to recreate the folder it was originally in. Wait for iTunes to recognize the new feed - it shouldn't take long.
If you want to involve Feedburner you will have to submit the new version of the feed to Feedburner. Mke sure Feedburner have uploaded their version of the feed. Then you will have to download the new iWeb feed and modify it by adding the tag with the Feedburner URL. Once you have done this *DO NOT* do anything in iWeb until you are sure that iTunes has transferred to the Feedburner feed. Then you can add new episodes in the usual way.

IWeb Podcast Art Not Displaying in iTunes Store

I recently submitted a podcast to iTunes, and so far it has been displaying in the store fine. However, I cannot figure out how to make iTunes display the art for the podcast. I just used iWeb to make the podcast, RSS feed, and submit it to iTunes, and though I'm fairly technically proficient, web coding is not my area of expertise.
here's a link to the site: http://www.worthbak.com/the5_30podcast/podcast/podcast.html
and here's a link to the podcast in the store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=330042373
any and all help would be much appreciated!
thanks,
worth

I'm having sort of the same problem. My podcast (which is done through iweb) was just put into the itunes store and when you search it there's no artwork, but after you click on it, the artwork shows up. It's just not coming up in the search. Should I wait? Or is there something I can do to get my artwork up?
This is the url: http://web.mac.com/amrodgers/iWeb/Sara%20and%20Aimee%20do%20Glee%21%20A%20Glee%2 0Podcast/Podcast/Podcast.html

IWeb, Podcasts, and RSS feeds

http://web.mac.com/realityramble
So I feel like I made a grave error in choosing iWeb to create and .mac to host my podcast. After creating the podcast page in iWeb and publishing it to .mac and the iTunes Music Store, I noticed that the podcast didn't have artwork when you find it in ITMS like it should have. I emailed ITMS and they replied that I have to manually update my RSS feed. No problem, except...
I've no idea how to do this! I know what to change and all that to add the artwork that should be there as well as the ITMS search keywords, but I have no idea where to find my RSS feed on my computer so that I can update it. ITMS email help told me to do a spotlight search on my computer but I can't find it anywhere.
iWeb doesn't tell you where the website is saved on your computer and I can't find it for the life of me.
Does anyone know how I can manually update my RSS feed? Again, I've found the page that tells me how I'm supposed to change the feed and I know what to do once I find it, but I can't find the bugger!
This seems ridiculous, and creating your site on iWeb is supposed to be the easy and fool-proof method, but it's really not and I'm really frustrated.

Hi Keith
You need to look in your iDisk (if you don't have it mounted go to System Prefs > .Mac > iDisk, and wait till it's synchronized).
Your RSS.xml file will be in a subfolder of your Web folder - open it in TextEdit, make your changes and Save.
It worked for me http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=167005059
Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Create hidden iWeb podcast

Hey guys
Ok on my website
www.learn-2-drum.co.uk
I have a podcast page which is great and all the entry's download perfectly to my itunes slash whoever subscribes.
I want to however add a file to the podcast rss feed without having to put it on the podcast page..
Basically if you go onto the chop of the week page i have those video's on my desktop and i want to add it to my rss feed to download to people's itunes but without it being visible. i don't want to add it to the podcast (beginener zone) page and make it visible.
Anyone know how to do this?

You have to manually edit the .xml file that is used to subscribe to your podcast.
Understand that iWeb will overwrite that file when you update or add podcastpages.
Why not make a second podcast page or subscription for that purpose.
Here's how to do it :
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html

IWeb Podcast Blog: Main Page Only Allows 5 Episodes: Submitting to iTunes

Hello-
I have a podcast published with iWeb '08's podcast blog. I noticed that the main page of the podcast only shows previews of 5 episodes that you can click on. I know that you can easily change this with the inspector, but I don't want to have to many on the main page which will cause long page loading times. The problem is, in the RSS feed, it only shows the five episodes on the main page. I submitted this RSS feed to the iTunes store and got it accepted, but, just as I suspected, iTunes only shows the episodes in the RSS feed. *Is there a way to get a RSS feed for the archive of my podcast? If so, how can I change the feed iTunes has?* Could I just insert a RSS feed button on the archive page? Would that work?
Thanks for all the help-
If this helps, my podcast is located at www.greatcommercialspodcast.com
Rafael Sands

If you go to the podcast page and use the inspector, clicking the RSS button at the top of the inspector window, then click blog you will see that it allows you to change the number of episodes shown on the main page. Could it be this?

IWeb podcast won't play through Android (?)

I'm new to all this, so I may be overlooking something obvious. I created 2 podcasts through GarageBand and sent them to iWeb as MP3's. They play perfectly when I access my website through Safari on both my MacBook and my iTouch. I successfully subscribed to my podcast through iTunes and I successfully submitted my podcast to the iTunes Store. However, when I access my website podcast page on my Android phone, I can see all the copy and artwork, but there is no "Play" button to click. No way of making it play. Any ideas or suggestions on how to remedy this, if there is a way? Thanks.

Android doesn't play well with others if you do a google search on getting audio to play with and/or on the Android you will find a couple of solutions. People smarter than me were having some serious issues trying to get this to work.
jPlayer works on the Mac, PC, & iOS its what I use

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