Podtail is one of the few podcast directories people use without installing anything. Listeners open it in a browser on a laptop or phone, press play, and move on. That makes your Podtail page unusual in the podcast world. It works less like an app listing and more like a web page that can appear in Google. SEOServiceinIndia's Podtail podcast submission services get your show onto Podtail with a clean RSS feed, accurate metadata and a verified listing. We then make sure that page, and the rest of your directory footprint, actually helps people find you.
We work with podcasters, brands, agencies and podcast networks across the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India. Every engagement starts with a free feed audit, so you know what's broken before you pay for anything.
Podtail is a free, web-based podcast directory and player. It lets people find and listen to podcasts from all over the world directly in a browser or on a phone, and it deliberately works without an app. Visitors can browse newly added shows, check a Top Podcasts chart of the 100 most popular shows right now, search by title, and play episodes straight from the page.
Three things make a Podtail podcast listing worth your time.
Listings on Apple Podcasts or Spotify mostly live inside apps. A Podtail show page and its episode pages are crawlable web pages. Third-party SEO tools rate podtail.com as a high-authority domain with steady organic search traffic, which means Google already indexes and ranks these pages. A well-built Podtail listing can appear for your show name, your host's name and the topics your episodes cover.
Podtail runs localised editions in 15 languages. These include Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, and Portuguese for both Portugal and Brazil. A show with a correct language declaration lands in the right edition instead of getting lost in the wrong one.
Podtail doesn't host audio. Episodes play from your host's file, so plays through Podtail still reach your host, and your download numbers stay in one place.
Podtail has no creator dashboard, no upload button and no analytics portal. A show gets onto Podtail through one of three routes.
Podtail indexes many public feeds on its own. An established show may already be listed, often with whatever title, artwork and description its feed carried on the day it was picked up.
The site has a "Suggest a podcast" option for submitting a show for inclusion.
Podtail also points podcasters to Add My Podcast, a service that sends one RSS feed to several independent directories at once. Podtail adds shows after it has verified them.
The part most podcasters miss comes after the listing goes live. Podtail doesn't currently let you edit your podcast details yourself. Corrections are requested by email to the Podtail team. Whatever your feed says when Podtail indexes it is what listeners see until someone asks for a fix. That includes the title, description, artwork, author, language and category.
That's why we treat Podtail podcast submission as a feed job first and a form job second.
Most directories are built around an app, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or Podcast Addict. Listeners find you inside that app, and your listing gets little attention anywhere else. Podtail works the other way. Its audience arrives through the open web, from search results, shared links and browsing, and listens without downloading anything.
That changes what "optimised" means. On an app directory, the priorities are category placement and in-app search. On Podtail, the page itself has to make sense to someone who arrived from Google and has never heard of your show. That visitor needs a clear title, a description that explains who the show is for, recognisable artwork, and episode titles that say what each episode covers.
It also changes how the listing supports your brand. Search engines need to see that your Podtail, Apple, Spotify, website and host pages all describe the same show. A consistent show name across all of them makes that clear. Inconsistent names, old artwork or duplicate records blur it. That's why we treat Podtail as part of your search footprint, not a box to tick on a directory list.
We audit podcast feeds for directory submission across a long list of platforms, and the same faults come up again and again. On Podtail they matter more, because you can't log in and fix them later.
Our Podtail podcast submission service covers everything around the listing. We prepare the feed, get the show added, confirm the listing is correct, and make the page useful for search.
We check your feed against directory requirements. That covers enclosures and file encoding, stable GUIDs, owner and author fields, explicit tags, categories, artwork dimensions, the language declaration and crawler access. We fix what we can at the host level and give you a short list of anything that needs your approval.
Podtail listings are read by people browsing the web and by search engines. We refine your show title without keyword stuffing, then improve your description and episode titles. The goal is copy that a first-time visitor understands and that covers the topics you want to be found for. We keep the language natural, because Google's quality guidelines reward clarity, not repetition.
We submit your show through Podtail's own suggestion route or through Add My Podcast, whichever fits your wider distribution plan. Then we check that the listing is live, the artwork displays, episodes play, and the show sits in the correct language edition.
Your show may already be on Podtail with outdated details, or listed twice after a migration. In that case we fix the feed first, then send Podtail's team a clear correction request with supporting evidence. We follow up until the page matches your current show.
A Podtail listing works best when it points back to a strong home base. We build or improve the episode pages on your own website: each page is the main version of its episode, with a transcript, PodcastSeries and PodcastEpisode schema, and an RSS link in the page header. Together these help Google and AI answer engines connect your show, your host and your topics.
Podtail is one listing among many. We extend the same clean feed to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Player FM and Podcast Index. Where they suit your audience, we add regional platforms such as JioSaavn, Deezer and iVoox.
We check your RSS feed, search Podtail for existing or duplicate listings, and review where your show currently appears.
We confirm whether Podtail, and which other directories, suit your audience and markets, then agree a written scope with you.
We repair technical faults and refine your titles, descriptions, categories, language and artwork.
We submit to Podtail and the agreed directories using each platform's official route.
We confirm that every listing is live, correct and playable, and we request corrections where needed.
You receive a listing sheet with every live URL. Growth and Enterprise plans add monthly checks for new episodes, broken artwork and feed errors.
The market is crowded, and search visibility is what separates shows. We tighten metadata for competitive topics and link your Podtail page to your episode pages and host profiles.
Clean migrations matter because UK shows often move between hosts. We handle 301 redirects and feed-URL updates so Podtail doesn't keep an outdated record, and we keep spelling and categories consistent with your audience.
Bilingual shows need a clear language decision. Podtail has a French edition, so we help you choose between one bilingual feed and separate English and French feeds, then submit each one correctly.
Many Australian shows switch hosts as they grow. We look for duplicate or stale listings and keep one authoritative page.
Multilingual audiences need an honest language declaration so the show reaches listeners in the right edition.
We work with English, Hindi and regional-language shows, as well as shows aimed at the Indian diaspora in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Singapore. We declare the language properly and write descriptions that help both local and global listeners find you.
Our team handles podcast submission across a wide range of live directories, player apps, hosting platforms and legacy sites that no longer accept shows. That breadth shows us how a single feed error spreads across every listing.
We are an SEO company first. We treat every directory listing as a search asset, with metadata, structured data and episode pages working together.
Suggesting a podcast to Podtail costs nothing, and we'll tell you that upfront. Our fee covers the work around the listing: the audit, the fixes, the verification, the correction requests, and the search layer that makes the listing worth having.
We don't create fake podcast profiles, buy plays, post fake ratings or promise chart positions. Everything we do follows each platform's rules and Google's spam policies.
You get the live URLs, the fixes we made and any open items, explained in plain language.
We quote prices after your free feed audit. A clean new feed and a migrated show with duplicate listings are very different jobs.
For new shows or single podcasts. Includes the feed audit and fixes, metadata refinement, Podtail submission and verification, and submission to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music, plus a listing report.
For established shows. Everything in Starter, plus:
For networks, brands and agencies running several shows. Everything in Growth, plus:
Yes. Podtail doesn't charge to list a show. Our fee covers the feed audit, fixes, submission, verification, correction requests and wider search work.
Podtail adds shows after verifying them and doesn't publish a fixed timeline. We keep checking until the listing is live, then report back to you.
No. Podtail isn't a hosting service. You need a podcast host that gives you an RSS feed, and Podtail plays your episodes from that host.
Possibly. Many shows are picked up automatically with old titles, outdated artwork or duplicate entries. We audit the existing listing and fix what's wrong.
Podtail doesn't offer self-editing at the moment, so changes are requested by email. We fix your feed first, then send the correction request for you.
Yes. Podtail doesn't host files, so episodes stream from your host and the plays reach your hosting analytics.
No one can guarantee that. We improve what feeds into it, which means feed quality, metadata and discoverability. We never use fake plays or fake ratings.
Yes. We serve clients in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India, with all communication and reporting in English.
Send us your RSS feed and we'll return a free audit. It shows what Podtail currently displays for your show, what's broken in your feed, and which directories are worth your time. Then you decide.
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