From the course: Producing Professional Audio and Video Podcasts
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Monitoring the health of your podcast feed
From the course: Producing Professional Audio and Video Podcasts
Monitoring the health of your podcast feed
- Just because your podcast is working fine, doesn't mean it's always going to be working fine. So I suggest you monitor your podcast health. Services like FeedBurner will make this easy, because it can send you email alerts when something goes wrong. Your podcast host can also tell you if it's encountering any issues. What you want to do is to make sure you log in every couple of weeks and that there's no interruptions. I also suggest that you subscribe to your own podcast and listen, make sure that you're downloading the content when you release it, and that you don't see any issues. It's one more viewer to have in your subscription stats, but even more so, it lets you see or hear what everyone else is seeing and hearing. This way you could spot potential problems, maybe there was a corrupted episode or maybe something went wrong with your host. By relying upon technology from a couple of different places, this…
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