Hosts: give trial accounts no web presence, and mark them in the feed
Life tipsNo web presence for free/trial hosting accounts
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or you're in a trial account. Do not give those accounts any web presence whatsoever. Right. And also and also mark them as such in the feed.
Episode 257: Slop Factory (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:40:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave's one recommendation to podcast hosting companies fighting SEO spam: don't give free-tier or trial accounts any web presence at all, and mark them as such in the feed so everyone can ignore them until they're a verified, paying human. Blocking Google from indexing your own pages isn't enough, because the feeds flow into Apple Podcasts, the Index and elsewhere and get turned into HTML (second-order SEO).
Not in the audio. Dave's lead-in 'If I could make one recommendation to the podcast hosting companies' is in Dave cues just before; the words 'If you're on a free tier' are in an Unknown-labeled cue and aren't quoted.
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Episode 257: Slop Factory (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:41:11 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
It's not just the straight SEO from the page itself. It's like second-order SEO down the line.
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