<?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>Podcast SEO on PodSEO Blog</title><link>https://blog.podseo.com/tags/podcast-seo/</link><description>Recent content in Podcast SEO 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/tags/podcast-seo/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></channel></rss>