Curated by Vinod Kumar Jain & Amit Jain · All Frontier Global · free, no login
Podcast discovery is mostly text: the words in your titles, notes and transcripts are what any search can actually read, because the audio is opaque to it. Twelve checks across what makes a show findable. No platform is contacted, no feed is fetched and no ranking is modelled — this is a self-review you score yourself.
Why these areas
Titles — a guest name is only searchable by people who already know the guest. What the episode is about is searchable by everyone else.
Show notes and transcripts — the only substantial text most shows have. A corrected transcript on a page you own is the single highest-leverage item on this list.
Feed hygiene — the mechanical requirements directories enforce. Cheap to get right, quietly costly to get wrong.
A page of your own — platforms change terms, rankings and existence. A page per episode on a domain you control outlasts all of that.
Consistency — the back catalogue is the asset; keeping it available is most of the work.
Honest limits
Nothing is fetched. No feed is read, no platform is contacted, no directory is queried.
No ranking algorithm is modelled. Podcast directories do not publish how they rank, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing.
Discoverability is not an audience. Being findable helps people who are looking; most podcast growth comes from recommendation, which no checklist reaches.
The scoring is ours and crude. A corrected transcript on your own page is worth more than several of the other items combined.
Sources
None. These are the estate’s own words for reasonable practice, not guidance from any platform or directory, and nothing is fetched, queried or stored.