E243 - Moving Your Podcast to a New Podcast Host - 4 things to consider when it is time to move
Episode 243 - Moving Your Podcast to a New Podcast Host - 4 things to consider when it is time to move
I recently moved my Podcast Editing and Support Show from Spotify for Podcasters to Captivate.fm
I fell in love with what Captivate.fm has done to build the podcasting community and I wanted to participate and support the great things that they do there - we we moved our show.
When you move your podcast from one hosting site to another site ther are 4 things that I would like you to keep in mind to make the transition go smoothly.
(1) Be sure to not kill your current feed too early. Keep your hosting site active during the transition to ensure that your podcast is fully operational before you cancel your past podcast host.
(2) During the transition, stop posting your upcoming episodes to your old feed. Give yourself a gap between hosts by not posting upcoming episodes to your former hosting site.
(3) Collect all your old feed stats and data from your old host before closing your hosting site down. Grab screen shots, download the "CSV Files" so that you have the history of your podcast including listener stats, episode stats, everything possible.
(4) Once you have set up your new hosting site and redirected your RSS Feed to the new home for your podcast, post your newest podcast episode on your new host. When this new episode goes live, use Pod.Link to see if your newest episode sits at the top of the list as a new release - you can also click through the listening apps to see if your new episode, posted to your new hosting site appears. If so, you have been successful. From this point only post new episodes to your new hosting site
Bonus tip: If you have previously connected your podcast to YouTube via the RSS Ingestion process, watch to see that your newest episode released via your new host also appears on YouTube. Captivate.fm had to do some digging to ensure that this connection was infact still active with the switch. If you don't see your newest episode appearing on YouTube as it did prior to moving your hosting site - reach out to the support team on your new hosting site to look into it for you.
If you are looking for a hosting site to start your show or move your show, check out Captivate.fm
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