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Why did my Podcast get rejected? How can I resubmit a Podcast after my initial rejection?

Hello,


I have been made aware that my podcast has been rejected in iTunes. I am not sure if this is relevant or not, but the podcast was functioning for about a month until it could no longer be found by searching in iTunes. Moving along, I reached out to Apple support to troubleshoot the issue, and of course they were no help, and i received a blanket or automatic email response saying that I violated one or more of the following issues:


Unfortunately, the podcast has been rejected for one or more of the following reasons:


• Technical problems, usually the lack of episodes or the inability to download or play episodes. These problems can almost always be avoided by testing your feed using Subscribe to Podcast in the File menu prior to submission.

• Requirement of a login or password to access the feed or any of the episodes.

• Strong prevalence of sexual content.

• Use of explicit language in the podcast when the <explicit> tag is not set to “yes”

• References to illegal drugs, profanity, or violence in the title, description, or cover art

• Images or language that could be construed as racist, misogynist, or homophobic

• Images depicting sex, violence, gore, illegal drugs, or hate themes

• Third-party trademarks without authorization or usage rights

• The words “iTunes Store,” “iTunes,” or “Apple Inc.”

• iTunes Store logo, Apple logo, or the term “Exclusive” without prior authorization from Apple

I don't think that I have violated any of these rules, (but nobody ever thinks they do anything wrong, right?), however, in the event that I did violate one or more of these guidelines, I have no problem fixing these. Any help would be appreciated.

My files are in MP3 format, I have marked my episodes with the explicit content advisory, I do not use profanity in the titles and my picture meets the 1400 x 1400 criteria.

This is the first podcast that I have hosted, and I am getting off to a great start (sarcasm) ... but I don't want this to deter me from continuing my podcasting.

Also, I apologize in advance if I seem incompetent, I am. Feel free to "dumb it down" while responding to me.

If you have any questions, let me know, and I will happy to provide any supporting information.

Here is the RSS URL feed that I am using (powered by SoundCloud):

http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:48236424/sounds.rss



Thank you all for your help!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), null

Posted on Jul 22, 2015 7:43 PM

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Why did my Podcast get rejected? How can I resubmit a Podcast after my initial rejection?

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