What you get
Already have a website you like? You don't need a new one: the WordPress guide shows how your episodes go on the site you have. This guide is for shows that don't have a site yet.
A podcast website on ShowHub has two kinds of pages.
The home page lists your episodes newest first, with your cover art, a short description of the show, and links to wherever people already listen.
Every episode page has its own address, like yourshow.com/episodes/142-driving-the-dempster-highway. It carries a player, the show notes from your feed, chapters if your host provides them, and links to the previous and next episode. On Pro, the full transcript sits underneath.
That second part is what most podcast sites skip, and it's the part that does the work. A listener who wants to send a friend one specific episode needs a link to that episode. Google needs a page about that episode before it can show it to someone searching for the topic.
Why your feed is enough
Your RSS feed already holds everything a website needs: episode titles, descriptions, release dates, artwork and the audio file. Apple Podcasts and Spotify build their show pages from the same feed. ShowHub does the same thing for a site you control.
So there is nothing to copy over. When you publish episode 143 with your host, it lands in your feed, and ShowHub builds the page on its next check. Your host stays where it is. ShowHub doesn't store or re-upload your audio; the player streams the same file your listeners already get.
Don't know your feed address? Search your host's dashboard for "RSS". On Buzzsprout, Libsyn, Podbean, Captivate, Transistor and most others it sits on the show settings or distribution page. If you can't find it, paste your Apple Podcasts link instead and ShowHub will look it up.
Setting it up
- Paste your link in the box at the top of this page. ShowHub fetches your show and shows a preview. No account yet.
- Make an account to keep it. This claims the show and starts the first full sync.
- Choose a design. You can switch later without losing anything.
- Check a few episode pages. Titles and descriptions come straight from your feed, so if one looks off, fix it in your host and it updates here too, or edit it directly in ShowHub.
- Share the address. Put it in your show description, your Instagram bio, the end of your episodes.
Steps 1 to 4 usually take less time than finding your old website login.
Free site or your own domain?
Starter gives you a site on a showhubco.com address with a small ShowHub badge. That's fine for testing the idea or for a show that's just starting.
Move to Pro ($20 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly) when you want:
- Your own domain. You add the record ShowHub shows you (usually a single CNAME) where you manage the domain, and ShowHub sets up the HTTPS certificate.
- Transcripts on every episode. These are the biggest single change for showing up in search, because they put the whole conversation on the page as text.
- More designs and control over fonts, colors and layout.
If you already have a site on WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow or Wix and want to keep it, you don't need a second site. On WordPress, the ShowHub plugin adds an Episodes page and a page for every episode; on the others, one pasted line adds the player. Read the guides for WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow or Wix instead.
Before you start
Two things make the result better, and both are in your podcast host, not in ShowHub:
- Write real episode descriptions. Whatever you put there becomes the show notes on the page. One line of text makes a thin page; a few paragraphs covering the guest, the topics and the questions you answered make a useful one.
- Keep episode titles descriptive. "Ep 142" tells nobody anything. "Ep 142: Driving the Dempster Highway in winter" tells a listener what it's about and gives a search engine something to match.