How to Add Your Podcast to iTunes

By Work From Home Advisor | Jul 18, 2010

Adding a podcast to iTunes, is just one of the many ways to get your podcast known by lots of listeners. The process of adding your podcast so that it shows up in Apple’s iTunes, is easy. In order to do this, you must first have iTunes installed on your computer. To download iTunes for free visit http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Once you have the software installed on your computer, you will need to launch the software, and follow the steps below in order to submit your podcast so that it shows up on iTunes and your listeners can then download your episodes to their computer or iPod and listen at their convenience.

1. Click the iTunes Store link on the left hand side of the iTunes application.
2. Once in the iTunes store look to the iTunes Store Menu box on the left hand side and click on the podcasts link.
3. On the next screen, you will need to scroll to the bottom and find the More box and choose submit a podcast link.
4. This will take you to a screen where you can enter your podcast’s RSS feed link.
5. After entering your RSS feed URL, click the continue button.
6. Next, iTunes will request that you login to your iTunes account, if you haven’t already. Enter your login details when it asks for them.
7. If you don’t already have an account set up with iTunes there is also the option to create one here.

Once you have submitted your feed, iTunes staff will personally review your podcast for approval. Upon approval, the podcast will be available for everyone to see and subscribe to in the iTunes store. You will also be able to link to your iTunes podcast page in one of two ways.

1. Through a direct link to the podcast page in iTunes or
2. Through a link that automatically subscribes a user to the podcast via there iTunes.

These are just the basic steps to submitting a podcast to iTunes and obviously there are other ins and outs to the process, but this will get you in the iTunes Store and from there you will be able to see all the other details of how it all works by visiting the FAQ or Help sections.