Why are Apple putting metadata topics inside podcast pages? Bumper's Dan Misener tells us what he thinks. Are Satoshis the best way to reward podcasters? Trevor Bell argues there are better ways.
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Podcasting - Is Apple Using Topics?
The vast majority of episodes that are on the popular charts, at least in those top level categories, have topics assigned to them. But especially over the past couple of days, I've heard from some smaller independent podcasters who want to know what does Apple think my show is about? The truth is, Apple has not tagged any of their episodes with any topic. Would you launch a tool that would allow people who are podcasters to populate their metadata with a new category called topics? Because strangely in the RSS feed, you have categories which are horribly, horribly limited. It's not 1990 still, but, so the categories are limiting. Keyword stuffing is not now seen as a good thing
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