Not able to see my approved podcast episode #1 but can see my 2nd episode

The two URLs you give are in fact to the same Store page. When you add an episode you don't have to resubmit the feed - you just add the episode then wait for the Store to catch up.

Two episodes appear in the feed and when subscribing, but only the later one in the Store page. I can see no reason for this: a possible explanation is that you managed to have only the later episode in the feed for a time, at which point the Store checked the feed (it caches feeds and checks them in some sort of rotation). You then put the earlier episode back, but the Store hasn't got round to checking it again yet.

If that is the case the earlier episode will turn up but it may take a couple of days.

I can't advise specifically on Powerpress; when you add an episode to the feed and republish it, that is all you need to do. The feed is already registered with the Store and it will check automatically, though it might take a couple of days before the new episode appears (it will appear immediately for subscribers as their iTunes application reads the feed directly and thue Store is not involved.

There is a forum for PowerPress which can give you advice on that - http://forum.blubrry.com

Your PowerPress feed is valid and as Roger has pointed out, both of your episodes are listed properly in the feed. I subscribed to your feed thru the iTunes Store listing on the iTunes desktop application and it worked fine. Also, both episodes are showing up as expected in my local subscription.

The iTunes Store has been dealing with a number of weird glitches and outages lately. It's possible that one of these problems is affecting your listing in the iTunes Store. In which case, all you can do is wait for the situation to work itself out.

If you need further assistance with a PowerPress issue, please consider posting on the Blubrry Support Forum: http://forum.blubrry.com/

The RSS link works perfectly well - if readers are seeing the code it's because they haven't nominated an RSS reader and their browser is treating it as a text file. There isn't anything you can do about that, other than changing the http at the beginning to itpc - this will automatically subscribe visitors to the feed in iTunes, provided they have it installed. If they don't (as most Windows users won't) they will get an error message asking them to associate a program with this protocol, which is the disadvantage of that method.

The link to the Store works as expected, it's just that as we discussed earlier the Store is not showing the first episode for reasons we are not clear about.

Incidentally your web page is loading extremely slowly - around 30 seconds on the first go, and still quite slow after that. This isn't going to help and if the feed is going to be that slow to respond the Store is likely to timeout and not read it. You need to get that fixed because if the Store keeps being unable to read the feed it will assume it's dead and remove your podcast.

I'm glad to hear it's sorted itself out. When you want to add a new episode just add it to the feed, leaving the existing ones in place, and republish. No further action is necessary. Expect a delay of 1-2 days before it appears in the Store.

It's the feed rather than the web pages that the Store is interested in, but presumably that will be affected in the same way. It won't do any harm if the Store fails to check the feed once, or even a few ties, but eventually it will decide that the podcast is not available and will remove it. I don't know how long this will take but we've had cases where people haven't realised they've deleted the feed and the Store has continued to show the cached version for many weeks, so I don't think you need worry if it's only going to be a day or two.