Guess I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Mugs Disappointed
I’ve been trying to figure out how to claim my podcast feed for my Novel Experience Podcast® on Podcast Alley for several weeks.
The adding and claiming podcast process seems simple enough.
Go to Podcast Alley, click on Add a Podcast. You’ll be asked for the RSS URL of your podcast and then to validate the feed. That’s the easy part. Then you’re asked to add some coding into a post or feed so that PCA may find it and confirm that you are the ‘owner’ of your claimed podcast.
Though I added this HTML coding to a post and published it, when I returned to click the ‘claim this feed’ button, I kept getting told that my ‘claim hash’ has not been seen and to try again. I reviewed the PCA forum with no luck but learned many are having similar problems but getting no help.
So I kept trying but received the same results until………today when I caught an idea off the web and added the HTML claim coding into a post that HAS A PODCAST IN IT!.
And that, as the poet Robert Frost would say, has made all the difference! My claim was immediately ‘seen’ by the PCA bots and has been accepted.
Mugs Satisfied
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