Show Notes and FAQ Pages That People Actually Use

An episode is easy to listen to and hard to search. Good show notes, and a FAQ page built from listener questions, make your show useful long after release.

What show notes are for

• A short summary of what the episode covers and who the guest is.
• Links to anything mentioned: the guest's business, books, tools.
• Chapter markers or rough timestamps for the main topics.
• Corrections, if anything said on air turned out to be wrong.

Listener questions are material

Keep every question that listeners send. After a while, the same ones repeat: how you choose guests, how to suggest one, how to get a transcript, how to find an older episode. Those belong on a FAQ page, not in your inbox.

Structure a FAQ page by topic

A long single list is hard to scan. Group questions under a few headings, write each answer so it stands alone and link to the episode or page with the full detail. For an example of a FAQ grouped this way, from an unrelated industry and in Traditional Chinese, see this FAQ page that sorts questions into sections such as sign-up, deposits, withdrawals, games and security (常見問題整理). Whatever your topic, the pattern is the same: short sections, plain questions in the reader's words and one direct answer for each.

Transcripts

A transcript makes an episode searchable and accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Check automatic transcripts for errors in names and technical terms before you publish them.

Keep it current

Review the FAQ when something changes, such as how to contact you or how guests are chosen, and remove answers that no longer apply.

Last edit 2026-10-22