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Using SEO to Sell Your Music

What’s an SEO you ask and how the heck will it sell my music?

Let’s say you’re in a band and you’ve been writing, playing out and recording for years.

You’ve always thought about selling your own original music and now you feel your sound just may be good enough to actually do it.

If you haven’t already been signed by a legitimate label you know you’re going to need to market your music by any means possible.

It just so happens that the Internet is one of the best ways to reach the largest audience.

Sell your music online like the labels do and keep most of the money instead of just the change!

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…..but you also want to promote your music on your own website and then use good SEO (Search Engine Optimization) skills to get your songs on the first page of Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines.

Let’s say, for example, you have a song titled “Broken Promises.”

If you type the phrase “Broken Promises” into a search box such as Google you’ll see on the first page there are approximately 11 million results for that term. This means you have to make sure your song is on that first page because very few people are going to search through pages and pages of results to find your song.

As a matter of fact it’s a proven statistic that as many as 80% of the searchers make their purchase from a site on that first page.

Through the use of good SEO skills you can get your song to come up on the first page of all the search engines.

When you get it there you can just sit back and watch the money come in.

It’s possible you’ll also want to consider installing a superb flash music player on your site so your visitors can sample your music while at the same time easily adding a buy now button which then links to a payment page such as PayPal so your visitors can purchase the song after sampling it on your site. Purchase a player for your site now.

You can then use the SEO tecniques to get your band’s name at the top of the search as well as the rest of your songs or album titles.

Sell them individually or sell an album or sell both.

Digital music is where it’s at in today’s world!

Everybody now day seems to buy their favorite songs and store them in the laptops and desktops so they know exactly where to find it for the next party.

They just hook the speakers up to the computer and let the music flow!

Keep it professional and start using SEO to sell your music.

I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the results since 90% of the population doesn’t even know what the term SEO means.

Best Wishes!

Passion vs. Talent

Passion is a sincere dedication to something specific.

Talent is a persistently practiced dedication to something specific.

There is a difference between the two.

For instance….I am a passionate musician. I love playing the guitar, keyboard and singing. I get excited when I’m playing music and could easily go for 6 to 8 hours without even thinking about it on any given day.

I am not, however, a talented musician because I fail to practice enough to become a talented musician. To be a talented musician I would need to practice my passion daily. Persistent practice would qualify me for talent.

Unfortunately passion doesn’t get you paid and talent usually does.

In shortest terms…..It’s wonderful to be passionate about something but it’s lucrative to be talented at something.

Blogging Your Band

Just wanted to take a brief moment today to let my musician friends know that you are absolutely missing the boat if you aren’t taking the time to blog about your band and it’s music.

If you haven’t already done so you should purchase your own domain and make sure you use the band’s name as the domain name. Set up a blog preferably through the likes of WordPress.org which is a free blogging platform and probably the best I’ve seen and start blogging about your band and the music you play and write.

Believe me when I tell you that your fans want to know what the band did last night! They want to know how many beers you had, where you played, and if Johnny got drunk again or not.

You need to be able to get close to the fan base. Open up a comment section on the blog and try to spark conversation. It would be best if just one of the band members could personally write new posts everyday or at least every other day.

Try to keep the blog posting as consistent as possible. Tell your fans everything you guys are doing. This will spark conversation in the comment area and be sure to always answer the comments.

Before you know it you will have an entirely new fan base building. Probably one that you didn’t even know existed.

Your readers will spread the word about the blog for you and it will only generate more interest and a bigger base.

If you haven’t already done so, start blogging your band today.

Best Wishes!