<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>PodSEO Blog</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/</link><description>Recent content on PodSEO Blog</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.154.2</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.podseo.com/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Music DNA of Podcast Search: Why Apple and Spotify Still Rank Like Record Stores</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/music-dna-of-podcast-search-2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/music-dna-of-podcast-search-2026/</guid><description>We analyzed roughly 11M top-5 podcast and episode rankings on a single day. Apple and Spotify both inherited their search engines from music apps, and it shows. Show titles dominate rank 1, episode signal is much stronger on Apple than Spotify, and a one-week-old episode is 8–9× more likely to be top-5 than its catalog share predicts.</description></item><item><title>We Analyzed 655,000 Podcast Placements: High-Authority Sites Prefer Websites Over Platforms</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/editorial-placements-research-2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/editorial-placements-research-2026/</guid><description>Analysis of 655,000 editorial podcast mentions reveals where journalists link when they cover podcasts: top publications pick podcast websites 69% of the time, only 0.025% of podcasts have Wikipedia pages, and just 2.67% of podcasts have any editorial coverage at all.</description></item><item><title>The Hidden Network: How Apple Podcast Recommendations Reveal Your True Competition and Collaboration Opportunities</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/apple-podcast-recommendations-network-analysis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/apple-podcast-recommendations-network-analysis/</guid><description>Analysis of 263,859 active podcasts reveals 149 distinct audience communities and the hidden collaboration opportunities within Apple&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;Listeners Also Liked&amp;#39; recommendation algorithm</description></item><item><title>The Hidden SEO Power of Podcast Taglines: 6.7x Better Rankings</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/podcast-taglines-seo-impact/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/podcast-taglines-seo-impact/</guid><description>Analysis of 332,528 podcasts reveals that strategic tagline usage correlates with dramatically better keyword rankings on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, yet 91% of podcasts miss this opportunity</description></item><item><title>Track Your Podcast's PR Footprint and Pitch Smarter</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/podcast-pr-visibility-outreach/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/podcast-pr-visibility-outreach/</guid><description>PodSEO now automatically discovers where your podcast is mentioned across the web and helps you pitch the places where it isn&amp;#39;t.</description></item><item><title>Introducing AI Visibility: Track Where AI Assistants Recommend Your Podcast</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/introducing-ai-visibility/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/introducing-ai-visibility/</guid><description>ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini are becoming go-to sources for podcast recommendations. Now PodSEO lets you see exactly where your show appears and who dominates each topic.</description></item><item><title>AI Podcast Search: Inside the Black Box</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/ai-podcast-search-inside-the-black-box/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.podseo.com/posts/ai-podcast-search-inside-the-black-box/</guid><description>PodSEO, the first SEO Platform for podcasts that includes AI Visibility, releases first-ever analysis of what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini actually recommend when users ask for podcasts</description></item></channel></rss>