If you want to get people onto your website from search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing you need to ensure your website complies with their guidelines. There are a lot of techniques that you can implement on your website that don’t do it any good – either the search engines can’t see what [...]
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Getting the search engines to take more notice of your website is getting more and more difficult with more competition appearing day on day – not to mention the amount of spam and dodgy techniques people use to get the major search engines to take notice of their site. Because of this, Google are looking [...]
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In a previous post I wrote about a quick tip that you can do for updating your website in the new year by adding the current year in your footer copyright notice. Well, here’s a quick trick that will even save you that job, which is great if you have several websites to update or [...]
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You may have started 2010 thinking about how good this year is going to be for you and your musical career. I did. I do it every year. Each year I say to myself “This is going to be the best year, musically, so far”. And I have the best intentions. But it doesn’t always [...]
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If you are running a website for your music you’ll have a domain name, otherwise known as a website address. Without the domain name people wouldn’t be able to find your website on the internet. But these days with so much competition it’s just not enough to buy a domain name without thinking about the [...]
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Here is something I’ve literally just stumbled across that I though might be worth sharing. According to unsignedbandpromotion.com a new ‘genre’ meta tag can be used to let the search engines know your style of music. You can read more on the tag here but is it effective? I thought it was worth sharing and [...]
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As a musician you naturally want to expose yourself to as many people as possible. Depending on your approach, your focus may be to obtain more fans, increase the amount of downloads from your site or it may be to attract potential enquiries or bookings or interest A&R folk. It really comes down to the [...]
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I recently came across a blog post from a wedding DJ who has analysed his online leads and requested information from his followers, fans, fellow DJs and the general public about how he can improve his website. Well, he’s now produced a report on his findings for all to see and makes for quite an [...]
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Following on from my previous post detailing some of the worst things you can do with your MySpace profile if you are a band, musician, DJ, MC or producer, here are a few things you should be doing with your profile if you are to get a better response when it comes to promoting it.
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I’m not going to beat around the bush on this one. Most bands have a MySpace profile but not all of them know quite how to do things right – and it’s annoying. I’m not going to name names and I’m not saying there are ‘rules’ as such, but there’s common sense. Keeping things sensible [...]
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