Do I own the website?
You own all the content and data on your site. We register and manage the domain and hosting as part of the service. This is how we keep setup frictionless and ensure the site stays fast, updated, and properly managed. If you ever leave, your episode data, guest profiles, and content are yours to take. Think of it like a managed media property — you get all the benefit without any of the technical overhead.
Who keeps the affiliate commissions?
You do. Every product link on your site uses your Amazon Associates tag. Commissions go directly into your Amazon account. We take nothing from your affiliate revenue — not now, not ever. You set up your own Amazon account during onboarding and hand us the tag. That's it.
What happens to my site if I cancel?
If you cancel, the site goes offline and the domain stops pointing to it. All the content we enriched for your episodes — recaps, key moments, guest profiles, product lists — is yours and we'll export it before we close anything down. We don't hold your data hostage. That said, most clients who see the traffic and affiliate income coming in don't want to cancel.
How long does the build take?
Most builds go live within 5 to 7 business days of onboarding. Larger catalogs (250+ episodes) may take up to 2 weeks depending on the complexity of enrichment. We'll give you a clear timeline before we start and keep you updated along the way.
Will this actually rank on Google?
Yes — but SEO takes time. New sites typically start seeing organic traffic within 3 to 6 months as Google indexes and gains confidence in the domain. The more episodes and guests you have, the more pages there are to rank, and the faster the authority builds. Podcasts with well-known guests often see rankings start earlier because the guest names already have search demand. We also submit your sitemap to Google on day one to accelerate indexing.
I already have a website. Do I still need this?
Probably yes. Most podcast websites are a homepage, an about page, and a basic episode list. That's not an SEO asset — it's a brochure. What we build is a separate searchable index purpose-built for ranking individual episodes, guests, and topics. It can live on a subdomain of your existing site or a new domain entirely. The two don't compete — they complement each other.
How accurate is the AI-generated content?
We use the same AI models that power the best writing tools in the industry. Episode recaps, key moments, and guest bios are generated from your actual episode metadata and publicly available information. They're not perfect — you'll occasionally spot something you'd phrase differently — but they're consistently accurate, readable, and useful. You can request edits any time as part of your monthly maintenance.
Do you work with video podcasts or YouTube-only shows?
Yes. For shows that publish on YouTube, we offer a YouTube add-on that pulls real video thumbnails, embeds players directly on episode pages, and links timestamps to the exact moment in the video. It also opens up a second SEO surface — YouTube search and Google video results on top of standard web search. The add-on is $200 added to your build fee. Contact us to discuss if your setup is YouTube-only and we'll figure out the right approach.
Why don't you just build it on my existing platform or Squarespace/Wix?
Page builders are great for brochure sites. They're terrible for the kind of programmatic SEO we do — generating hundreds of individual episode, guest, and topic pages that all interlink, load fast, and rank independently. We build on a static framework that Google loves, deploys in seconds, and costs nothing to host at scale. A Squarespace site with 500 episode pages would be slow, expensive, and a nightmare to maintain. Our stack is built exactly for this use case.