Removed Podcast, Failing to Re Sumbit, Tried changeing name, Removed Podcast, Failing to Re Sumbit, Tried changeing name

Question

I submitted a podcast a few weeks ago, but the title was wrong and I wanted to change some other things. Couldn't figure out how to do it. Emailing apple got no response. Then asked for podcast to be taken down so i could resubmit. Podcast was removed from store.
In attempting to resubmit the podcast I keep getting feed already exists errors, even though it is no longer in the store.
Tired changing Feed Name and Url many times. I am using Feed Burner.
Feed Title: Around the Trunk Podcast
Original Feed: http://nightmaresofawriter.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Feed Adress: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AroundTheTrunkPodcast
Orignal adress was: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AroundTheTrunk
I have tried many different options and name combinations for the Feed Address name with nothing working.
Any help would appreciated.

Answer 1

There is a bug in the automated part of the submissions process which will tell you that a feed has already been submitted even if it's been removed from the Store. The workaround is to change the title, and if possible the link tag and the feed URL. You can always change the title back afterwards as long as doing so doesn't change the feed URL (it some cases it will and Blogger may be one of them, but if you are submitting the Feedburner version you can sort that out in Feedburner). You can't get round this by any other method.
If you create a weblog in Blogger the feed contain all the episodes, not just those with media: it's better for your podcast feed to be only podcasts and to keep a weblog separate. You could start an entirely new blog to be just the podcast, and keep the existing one for non-podcast episodes.
The 'enclosure' tag in the feed contains the URL of the media file and is required for iTunes. One of your episodes does have this - '1 - Gods Of Earth 09/02/12' - so whatever you did there is what you should be doing. Your descriptions in a podcast feed should be kept reasonably brief and shouldn't contain links - iTunes won't display them as working links.
You might find it helpful to look at my page on podcasting - http://rfwilmut.net/pc - which contains a sample basic feed. You aren't writing your own feed, and you can't amend the one you have directly, so it's not directly relevant: but it would just give you an idea of how the process works and what you should be looking for. I can't advise on the specifics of making a podcast in Blogger.