Your website

No. Podspun builds the site for you from your episodes, on your own domain, and keeps it current as you publish. It is a finished website with episode pages, transcripts, clips, and search already in place, not a blank page you fill in. You pick a theme and colors and adjust what you want, and the rest is done for you.

It is your own website, made from the episodes you already publish and hosted on your own domain. It is made for podcasters, so you build here instead of Squarespace or WordPress. Choose from themes and color palettes, set your logo and fonts, and Podspun assembles episode pages, all your episodes, search, and clips for you. As you publish new episodes, the site updates on its own.

Squarespace and WordPress are general website builders. You start from a blank site and add every episode, transcript, and clip by hand, and there are no podcast tools in the box. Podspun is made for podcasters: connect your show once and it arrives with your whole catalog, transcripts, search, and clips already in it. You keep full design control and your own domain, and the approach is a two-time Webby honoree.

That is the goal. Podspun builds your episode pages with clean structure and the structured data that search engines and AI answer engines read, so your show can rank in Google and get quoted by tools like ChatGPT and AI Overviews. Because every word is transcribed and indexed, there is real, searchable text on every page for them to pull from.

You can edit any page with blocks, draft changes, and roll back revisions. Lock specific items and a sync leaves them alone, so your edits survive. You can also exclude episodes you don't want surfaced.

You pick which surfaces you use: podspun.com, your own domain, the Data API, or any mix. Your custom site runs on your domain with its own canonical setup, so it stands on its own. If you only want your own site indexed, you don't have to surface the same pages on podspun.com.

Pages are block-based with structural themes and color and font palettes. You control layout, what stays public (whole-site password or a coming-soon state), and your own domain over Cloudflare SSL. It is your site to shape.

Yes. Building is free: create a site in Build Your Website, design every page, and check it with the preview link for as long as you like. The $39.00/month charge only starts when you press Go Live and the site goes public on its domain.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Setup and then Visibility. Who can see this site switches between Public and Password protected, and a Coming soon toggle hides all content behind a simple placeholder while you work. You write the heading and message for both screens, and the password can be generated and copied right there.

Your own preview link always bypasses the gate, so you can review the real site while visitors see the placeholder.

Yes. In the page editor, open the version menu and choose Share a draft. It creates a review link that works for seven days without a login, so a co-host or client can see exactly what the draft looks like on the real site. They see the draft only; the live page stays as it is until you publish.

Yes. Every publish keeps the previous version. In the page editor, open the version menu to see Recent revisions and roll back to any of them, or View all revisions for the full history. A draft you have not published yet can simply be discarded.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Setup and then Integrations and paste your Google Analytics measurement ID (it looks like G-XXXXXXX). Turn on the cookie consent banner in the same place and Analytics only loads after a visitor clicks Accept, so the setup stays compliant out of the box.

The banner has two buttons, Accept and Decline, and it remembers the choice for a year so it does not nag on every visit. Decline means Analytics never loads. A Cookie Preferences link is added to the footer so a visitor can change their mind later, which reopens the banner. Your podcast video embeds already use YouTube's no-cookie player, and Podspun's own visitor insights are cookieless, so Analytics is the only thing the banner needs to gate.

Yes, as an add-on. In your site's CMS, open Setup and then Custom Code to add your own scripts and styles. It is $19.00/month per site, added to your monthly bill.

Open the image in your site's Assets (or from any image picker) and use the editor. Crop trims the image, free-form or to a fixed shape like square or 16:9, and can save the result as a new file. Focal point lets you drag a marker to the part of the image that matters, and Podspun keeps that point in view wherever the image fills a box, like a hero banner.

In your site's CMS, open Menus. Header is the navigation at the top of every page, Footer is the link list at the bottom, and Social is your profile links. Add, reorder, and nest items with drag and drop; each item links to a page, an outside URL, or a file through the link picker.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Entries and then News Articles. Each article gets its own page, an author, a publish date (set it in the future to schedule), and optional categories and tags, which you manage under Categories. Add the News block to any page to list your latest articles automatically.

Yes. In the page editor, open a block's Config tab and choose a photo under Photo behind this block. A scrim (a wash over the photo) keeps the text on top readable: darken the photo for white text, or lighten it for dark text, and set the strength with the slider. The hero block's backgrounds use the same scrim control.

Yes, and any block can do it. In the page editor, open a block's Config tab. Turn on Full Bleed to stretch the block edge to edge across the whole window, past the page margins (the block needs to be full width). Turn on Fill the screen and center to make it at least one full screen tall with its content centered. Both work together, which is how a big opening section is usually built.

In your site's CMS, open Settings, then Header, and find Announcement bar. Turn it on, write a short message (a new season, a live show, a sale), and optionally add a link so people can act on it. The message shows in a colored band across the very top of every page until you turn it off.

Yes. In your site's CMS, open Setup, then Redirects. Add the old address (the part after your domain, like /about-the-show) and pick where it should send people. Anyone who visits the old address lands on the page you chose instead of a "page not found" screen. Useful when a page moves, or when this site replaces an older website whose links are still out there.

Each redirect has a Type of move. Permanent (the default) tells search engines the page moved for good and hands its ranking to the new one, which is what you want almost every time. Temporary is for a short detour: it sends visitors along but keeps the old address in search results, so use it only when the old page is coming back.

To move a whole section at once, end the old address with a star, like /old-blog/*, which catches that address and everything under it. End the destination with a star too (like /blog/*) to keep the rest of each address, so /old-blog/2020/my-post lands on /blog/2020/my-post.

Yes, automatically. Every Podspun site publishes two standard files that AI assistants and answer engines read: llms.txt, a plain guide to your shows, pages, and latest episodes, and agents.json, a machine-readable summary that points them to your full catalog and on-site search. There is nothing to set up; both stay current as you publish.