Music Promotion & Marketing » Website Management & Improvement

Does Google Like Your Website?

Ashley — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:22:36 +0000

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 [...]

Does Google Like Your Website? is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Page Speed – A Slow Website Makes Work for Idle Visitors

Ashley — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:02:12 +0000

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 [...]

Page Speed – A Slow Website Makes Work for Idle Visitors is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Automatically Updating Copyright Date in Website Footer

Ashley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:37:38 +0000

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 [...]

Automatically Updating Copyright Date in Website Footer is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

A Small 5-Minute Change for the New Year

Ashley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:17:53 +0000

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 [...]

A Small 5-Minute Change for the New Year is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Why Picking the Right Domain Name is Important

Ashley — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:31:45 +0000

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 [...]

Why Picking the Right Domain Name is Important is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

New ‘Genre’ Meta Tag for Bands & Musicians

Ashley — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:04:32 +0000

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 [...]

New ‘Genre’ Meta Tag for Bands & Musicians is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Write Better Content & Treat Your Visitors to a Cookie

Ashley — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:10:37 +0000

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 [...]

Write Better Content & Treat Your Visitors to a Cookie is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Musicians & DJs – Increase Your Online Leads

Ashley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:44:00 +0000

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 [...]

Musicians & DJs – Increase Your Online Leads is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Creating a Better Musician Profile with MySpace

Ashley — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:43:08 +0000

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. [...]

Creating a Better Musician Profile with MySpace is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.

Ten (10) Things Bands Do Wrong on Their MySpace Profiles

Ashley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:38:23 +0000

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 [...]

Ten (10) Things Bands Do Wrong on Their MySpace Profiles is a music promotion post from Music Marketing UK, aiming to help bands, musicians and DJs promote their music better on the internet and within the music industry.