But now what?
I registered for an account at Blubrry.com. I then filled out all the info under General Program Settings and uploaded my images under Branding. I then clicked on the link that says "Click the following link to Publish a Podcast on iTunes." But every time I did that the image that showed up on the iTunes submission form was the Wordpress with Blubrry icon instead of my logo, and much of the info was missing. After several hours of this, I finally went over to Google's Feedburner, set everything up and bingo - iTunes submission worked on the first try with all the appropriate data and the appropriate logo.
So, now that I am updating iTunes with Feedburner --- Here's the Ping results from within the WP Blubrry plugin: (Latest Update iTunes Listing Status: Successful iTunes notified on 9 October 2010 at 0:00 Feed pulled by iTunes:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpiritualLucidity) instead of through Blubrry (Recommended feed to submit to iTunes:
http://spirituallucidity.com/feed/podcast/), here are my questions:
1) Why couldn't I get my Blubrry feed to work when submitting podcast to iTunes? By the way, I was initially never able to get my feed to validate.... I read in several forums that I had to revert to the Default links rather than Permalinks (not an option) but turns out, made no difference because even in testing the RSS would not validate either way... Without permalinks:
http://spirituallucidity.com/?feed=podcast, With permalinks:
http://spirituallucidity.com/feed/podcast/After hours of troubleshooting… Turns out the feed is not recognized if the podcast is only on a STATIC page, it must be in a regular post. Once I copied the info from the static About Page and posted it as a regular blog post, changing nothing else, all of a sudden the feed validated fine (except the missing iTunes info warnings).
2)Now that Feedburner is providing the feed to iTunes and iTunes already has all the info for Title, Subtitle, 4000 character description, keywords, Categories, etc. do I just leave all that blank in the Blubrry plugin under iTunes Feed Settings? Do I just add my assigned iTunes URL and leave everything else blank?
3) When I create a new blog post and attach a new podcast to the post using the Blubrry plugin, what's the workflow? Does Feedburner get notified that a new podcast has been added and then Feedburner updates iTunes?
4) Does Blubrry cover statistics on Feedburner?
5) Also, I can't get my Blubrry stats to show in my WP Dashboard. "Wait a sec! This feature is only available to Blubrry Podcast Community members."
But when I go to Blubrry PowerPress Settings and try to login (Blubrry Services* None (Click here to configure Blubrry Services)) I get this error: Error: The requested URL returned error: 401.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
~ Angela