When I put my podcasts on Podango™ on June 1st, my subscribers plummeted by about 75 % over a one week period. In the graphic above (from Feedburner) the flat part of the curve corresponds to the week while I was unsucessfully trying to redirect the feed back to its original location. I am pleased to report that this was finally accomplished last week with the help of Rob Walch from Podcast 411 and the folks at Podango™.
This problem seems to have mainly effected people using iTunes™ and also my email subscribers. If you have not gotten episode 14 or do not get episode 15 on June 28th, please let me know. If you are using iTunes™, the first thing you should try is deleting the current subscription so you can resubscribe to the corrected feed. If this doesn’t work please contact me at docartemis at gmail.com.
If you are interested in the gory details of what went wrong you can listen to the last 12 minutes of item 205 of Podcast 411. If you are a podcaster you may find the lessons I learned informative.
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Hola, Ginger.
I’ve had similar issues, actually with iTunes itself, after adding a WordPress plugin for Feedburner.
I’m not sure which it is, though I strongly suspect it’s actually iTunes (good luck getting tech support on that), since FB is so widely used by other major podcasting folk without difficulty.
But I’ve noted that if you change your posting, say, delete a show from your site, the change doesn’t reflect in iTunes, or at least not for a loooong time. When I did see it do so, it seemed to happen *after* I switched off the FB plugin. But that could have been coincidental.
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