Re: we had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Roger:) I'm glad the feed seems ok. So far I only have one Podcast episode available...I just wanted to be able to get things figured out and submitted to iTunes before I had too many episdoes available.

I'll try to submit the feed again in a few days. Maybe I should burn a different feed in feedburner...one that is exclusively for podcasts? I've set 2 different categories in my Wordpress website...one for blogposts and the other one for podcasts. So if I started a new feed specifically for podcasts that would probably be much better. Still new at this..but I'll try to figure out how to get the specific feed going in feedburner.

Then I'll try the new feed in iTunes in a day or two. Thanks again,

Lorna

ok I'll do that Roger:)

Thanks so much for your help,

Lorna

Hi again,

So I checked out this new feed that I burned in Feedburner specifically for podcasts. The URL is "http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstorylifepodcasts" and when I checked it in feedvalidator.org it said "this is a valid rss feed" but then there were some issues like these:

Congratulations!

This is a valid RSS feed.

Recommendations

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

• line 2, column 200: Unable to validate namespace: http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/. See the RawVoice specification at http://www.rawvoice.com/services/tools-and-resources/rawvoice-rss-2-0-module-xml ns-namespace-rss2/ [help]

  ... dburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content=" http://purl . ...
  ^

• line 27, column 50: Image link doesn't match channel link [help]

  <link> http://rawstorylife.com/category/podcasts/ </link>
  ^

• line 29, column 153: Self reference doesn't match document location [help]

  ... .feedburner.com/RawStoryLifePodcasts" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburne ...
  ^

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rawstorylifepodcasts

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

2. <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:rawvoice="http://www.rawvoice.com/rawvoiceRssModule/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">

4. <channel>

5. <title>Raw Story Life  » podcasts</title>

6. <link>http://rawstorylife.com</link>

7. <description>Discover yourself, your life, your story ...</description>

8. <lastBuildDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:47:12 +0000</lastBuildDate>

9. <language>en-US</language>

10. <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>

11. <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>

12. <!-- podcast_generator="Blubrry PowerPress/5.0.2" mode="advanced" -->

13. <itunes:summary>This podcast is dedicated to bringing you interviews and inspiration to help you find your voice, work through obstacles and help you make everyday a better story in your life.</itunes:summary>

14. <itunes:author>Lorna Faith</itunes:author>

15. <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>

16. <itunes:image href="http://rawstorylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/takeme600x600.jpg" />

17. <managingEditor>lorna@rawstorylife.com (Raw Story Life )</managingEditor>

18. <copyright>RawStoryLife.com</copyright>

19. <itunes:subtitle>This podcast is dedicated to bringing you interviews and inspiration to help you find your voice, work through obstacles and help you make everyday a better story in your life.</itunes:subtitle>

20. <itunes:keywords>selfhelp,health,living,well,balanced,living,better,story</itunes:keywords>

21. <image>

22. <title>Raw Story Life  » podcasts</title>

23. <url>http://rawstorylife.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/takemebecause-024.jpg</url>

24. <link>http://rawstorylife.com/category/podcasts/</link>

25. </image>

26. <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RawStoryLifePodcasts" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="rawstorylifepodcasts" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><media:copyright>RawStoryLife.com</media:copyright><media:thumbnail url="http://rawstorylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/takeme600x600.jpg" /><media:keywords>selfhelp,health,living,well,balanced,living,better,story</media:keywords><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Health/Self-Help</media:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>lorna@rawstorylife.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Lorna Faith</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:category text="Health"><itunes:category text="Self-Help" /></itunes:category><item>

Do these need to be fixed in order to get my podcast submitted to iTunes? If so, do you have any links or helpful advice on how I can fix these? I did go to itunes and click under "file" down to the tab "subscribe to a podcast" and put my new URL in there and it seemed to work...but I haven't actually tried to submit this as a podcast yet to iTunes...I wanted to hear what you had to say about these errors first:)

thanks for your help,

Lorna

So do you think I could try submitting this rss feed to itunes?

I tried it and everything was fine...except for the category. It said Health with sub-category "sexualtiy". So I went back to my Feedburner "smartcast" feed to double check what I had written in there and I had Health with sub-category "self-help" just like I had orginally intended. So I saved it again and tried again in iTunes. Still the same thing came up. Do you have any ideas on how I can fix this...before I complete the submission to iTunes?

thanks,

Lorna

I'm not sure where I put the tags for feedburner? Here's what I put in the Optimize and then "SmartCast" settings:

• Create podcast enclosures from links to any rich media file audio files only video files only images only do not create enclosures
• Include iTunes podcasting elements
  • Category: (None) Arts Business Comedy Education Games & Hobbies Government & Organizations Health Kids & Family Music News & Politics Religion & Spirituality Science & Medicine Society & Culture Sports & Recreation TV & FilmTechnology » Subcategory: Alternative HealthFitness & NutritionSelf-HelpSexualityNo subcategory
  • Use additional categories
  • Podcast image location:
    Preview Image...
  • Podcast subtitle:
  • Podcast summary:
  • Podcast search keywords:
  • Podcast author email address:
• Include "Media RSS" information and add podcast to Yahoo! Search

Contains explicit content:	No Yes Yes (Cleaned)
Copyright message:
Podcast author:

Sorry it didn't come up in the sub-category like I put it in the feed ...when I double-checked just now it said "self-help" ...I filled out the Podcast summary, title and keywords...but they didn't show up when I "copied and pasted" ;( Which section do I go to tag the podcast in feedburner? And are there specific words I should use?(My podcast is about helping people work through obstacles and to make everyday a better story in their life....that's the tagline I use...and most of the time I'm interviewing people).

thanks again for any tips you might have:)

Lorna

I saw the word "sexuality" in the sub-category when I submitted my Podcast feed to iTunes...when I clicked "continue" to go to the next page I saw the picture of the "Raw Story Life" podcast and then the Description, etc. then when it said 'category' it said "Health" and in sub-category" it said "sexuality". I'm not sure why...but I'll try again.

Ok I'll submit the podcast again to iTunes since the feed is correct:) Thanks again for all your help🙂