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Feed Distribution

So, now that we have a working WordPress blog, you can give the blog URL

(http://ahpy.wordpress.com/) to your students. While we can also give students the blog’s

podcast feed URL (http://ahpy.wordpress.com/feed/) to have posts delivered to them

automatically, this WordPress-generated feed does not include tags specific to the

iTunes Store. These special tags provide additional information about your podcast in the

iTunes Store listings and should be used if you’re planning to submit your podcast for

inclusion in the iTunes Store podcast directory. iTunes feed generation and submission

will be covered shortly.

If you don’t plan to submit your podcast for inclusion in the iTunes Store podcast

directory, your students can simply use the blog’s feed URL as-is to subscribe to your

podcast. Before you start promoting the URL, however, let’s check it to make sure it

validates. To check our feed, we’ll visit FeedValidator.org and input the feed URL

(http://ahpy.wordpress.com/feed/) in the form field, as shown in Figure 114.

Figure 114: Input the blog feed URL to confirm its validity.

After clicking the Validate button, Feed Validator will analyze your feed and return a

congratulatory message announcing that your feed is valid (hopefully). Now that we have

a valid feed, let’s subscribe to it in iTunes.

In iTunes, select Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast from the menu bar.

Enter the feed URL in the popup window (in this example, it’s