What does the free site check look at?

It reads your podcast's RSS feed, finds your website and its sitemap, matches each episode to a page on your site, checks how many of those pages Google has picked up, and reads a few episode pages for titles, descriptions and structured data. If you add your YouTube channel, it also counts videos that have no page on your site.

What is a findability score?

A reading from 0 to 100 of how easily search engines and AI assistants can find your episodes. Higher is better. It goes down for each gap the check finds: episodes without their own page, pages Google hasn't picked up, missing transcripts, and missing titles, descriptions or structured data.

Is the site check free?

Yes. The check and the result are free. The full technical breakdown asks for an email address and nothing else.

Do I need an account?

No. You don't need a ShowHub account to run the check, read the result or share it.

Does it work for YouTube or music?

The check reads a podcast feed, so it needs a show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or with an RSS feed. You can add your YouTube channel alongside the podcast to count videos with no page. A YouTube channel or music on its own can't be checked yet, though ShowHub still gives every video and track its own page, on your site or one we host: see ShowHub for video creators.

What do I do with the result?

Start with the short list: each problem comes with how to fix it. The biggest fix is usually giving every episode its own page. ShowHub does that from your feed and keeps it up to date, and the Starter plan is free.

How long does the check take?

Usually under a minute. Shows with hundreds of episodes take a little longer.

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Can Google and AI assistants find your episodes?

ShowHub's free site check shows how many of your podcast episodes Google and AI assistants can actually find. Type your show's name or paste a link: we read your feed, check your website the way a search engine does, and give you a findability score with the few fixes that matter most. It takes about a minute and needs no account.

It reads a podcast feed, so it works for anything on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or with an RSS feed. On YouTube too? Pick your channel alongside the podcast and we'll count the videos with no page. A YouTube channel or music on its own can't be checked yet, but ShowHub still gives a page to every video and track from video creators and musicians, on their own site or one we host.

Site check

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Running order

What does the check look at?

The same eight things Google and AI assistants rely on to send someone to an episode, in the order we check them. You get one findability reading, the few things worth fixing, and the technical detail if you want it.

Example resultMade-up show, not yours

Night Shift Radio · nightshiftradio.fm

Only 31 of your 212 episodes can be found on your site.

29/100 findability

Mostly hidden

HiddenEasy to find

181 episodes have no page of their own.
ShowHub gives every episode a page with the player and the description, and adds a new one each time you upload. On WordPress the plugin puts those pages on your own site.
Google has picked up about 22 pages from your site.
ShowHub pages are linked from an archive and listed in the sitemap, so they get found and picked up.

Yours also gets the full technical breakdown.

01
Reading your feed
Your feed is the list of episodes podcast apps read. We count what's in it.
RSS
02
Finding your website
The site that's meant to be home for the show, where Google should send people.
Domain
03
Counting your pages
A sitemap is the list of pages your site hands to Google. We read it, or crawl if there isn't one.
Sitemap
04
Matching episodes to pages
For every episode we look for a page on your site that's about it.
Coverage
05
Asking Google what it knows
Having a page isn't the same as Google having picked it up. We check how many it has.
Indexing
06
Checking YouTube
If you picked your YouTube channel too, we count the videos that have no page of their own on your site.
Off-site
07
Reading your episode pages
We open a few pages and read what search engines and AI assistants see: titles, descriptions, structured data.
Metadata
08
Adding it up
Turning all of that into one reading, and the few things worth fixing first.
Score

Before you run it

Questions about the site check

Asking about ShowHub itself? Read the questions creators ask most.

Can Google and AI assistants find your episodes?

What does the check look at?

Reading your feed

Finding your website

Counting your pages

Matching episodes to pages

Asking Google what it knows

Checking YouTube

Reading your episode pages

Adding it up