Podcast Ranking seems odd

Craig - Correct - keep doing what you are doing.

In your libsyn account go to "Destinations" and then click on "Edit" for libsyn classic feed - there you will see a field called "Author" - in that box you can put in some info about you the host - this shows up under your title - so keep it very brief and do NOT spam that box. Something like "Craig Garber world renown Guitar Instructor" or something similar where guitar is included - will help.

Then when you publish new episodes in your libsyn account - under tab 2 - where you put in the title and description - scroll down to the bottom and you will see the iTunes author tag at the episode level - put in something there as well. Again do NOT spam.

Rob W

The search results in iTunes and Apple Podcasts are sorted based on the total number of subscribers ALL time. So as a relatively new show of just 7 months - you are competing against other shows that have been around for 5 or 10 or more years in iTunes / Apple Podcasts. The key to move up the ranks is to drive your audience to subscribe to your show. Ratings and reviews do NOT matter for search result placement - nor do number of episodes - just the relevance of your shows title and author tags to the phrase searched for and then sorted by the total number of subscribers all time each show had.

Apple wants you to drive your audience to iTunes and Apple Podcasts app to subscribe - so make sure you do exactly that.