Find Out What's Stopping Listeners From Discovering Your Podcast

A Podcast Discoverability Audit is a cross-platform review of the signals that affect whether new listeners can find your podcast. GrowMyPod reviews your RSS feed metadata, show name and description, keyword coverage, platform listing presence, metadata consistency and AI visibility readiness to identify what may be limiting your podcast's findability across search, platforms and AI discovery surfaces.

The Overall Discoverability Score combines show-level SEO signals, keyword coverage, platform presence, metadata clarity, search gap signals and AI visibility readiness into a single modelled score. It is a diagnostic indicator — not a guarantee of rankings, downloads or subscriber growth. Results depend on your content, audience, platform behaviour and how recommendations are implemented.

Discoverability Audit identifies broad findability gaps across metadata, keywords, platforms and AI readiness. Show Intelligence goes deeper on your podcast name, description and show-level positioning — providing detailed scoring, name variants and AI-optimised description rewrites. Think of Discoverability Audit as the diagnosis and Show Intelligence as the treatment for show-level positioning.

The Command Centre is your full podcast health dashboard — covering SEO, engagement, distribution and growth signals in one view. The Discoverability Audit focuses specifically on findability: why new listeners may not be discovering your show. It pulls signals from multiple modules and presents them as a focused findability diagnosis rather than a broad health overview.

AI Visibility Readiness is an assessment of whether your podcast has the public signals, clear metadata, topic consistency and source-friendly information that may help AI-powered search and discovery systems better understand your show. GrowMyPod does not query AI systems directly or guarantee that your podcast will appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI or other AI responses. The readiness score reflects observable signals: public page presence, metadata consistency, description clarity and topic specificity.

No. GrowMyPod reviews publicly observable platform and metadata signals. It does not have access to private Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube ranking data, internal algorithm signals, impression counts or placement scores. All assessments are based on what is publicly observable and what your RSS feed and metadata communicate.

Search Gaps are search queries your podcast is not clearly optimised for — topics and phrases that listeners search for that your current show metadata and episode catalogue do not strongly target. GrowMyPod identifies these based on topic relevance, metadata fit and estimated opportunity signals. Unless you have verified search-volume data, these are described as estimated opportunities rather than confirmed high-volume queries.

The Discoverability Audit shows what is blocking findability. The Growth Playbook shows what to do about it — with a prioritised action roadmap, 90-day plan and milestone tracking. High-priority discoverability actions identified in this audit will appear as prioritised tasks in your Growth Playbook.