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5 Tips to Promote Your Music Website or Myspace Page

Here are 5 tips to use to generate more traffic to your web site or Myspace page.

1. Join Forums

Join forums that you like and participate in discussion. Put your URL in your forum signature, or create an animated banner that links to your website. Here are 9 Music forums.

2. Comment on blogs

Leave good comments on blogs that you like. Many blogs ask you to enter your name, email address, and web address. This is great because this gives you an opportunity to link back to your site. Also, when more websites link to your website, you will have a higher search engine ranking. This will make it easier to find your site through search engines.

3. Leave Comments on Myspace

Posting bulletins is great, but the bulletins boards are overly spammed and ignored by many. Take time to leave a comment on someone’s page with some kind words, and hopefully they will check out page, and my Myspace name happens to be my URL that hopefully check out.

Note: Myspace takes a long time to load as is, so when someone post a big banner/image that makes the load time even worse. I delete the message, and don’t’ check out the persons profile. So please don’t do this.

4. Join Social Communities

I’m not picking one more then the other, but there are a lot of online communities you can join to possibly generate more traffic. A lot of the sites allow you to enter your URL in the profile.

The goal of joining these additional communities is to become a active member, gain friends and interest, and getting them to come to your site.

Here are some social sites I think you should look into:

Digg – Social Book Marking
Flickr – Photo Sharing
Myspace – Social networking
Facebook -Social networking
Youtube – Video Sharing
Twitter – Micro-blogging, RSS, updates
Friendster – Social Networking Site

5. Make a Youtube Video

Well don’t just make a video for Youtube, there are plenty of other video site around.
Start a video blog, make some beat making video, do a music video, do a tutorial. Do something. But make it entertaining, and put your URL in the video and on the side bar of the video.

Good tips to shooting some videos

YouTube Videos for Dummies
No Lights No Camera, No Action…
Video Effects; the hot sauce of your YouTube video world!
Camera Placement….a Smosh Love Story…
Exclusive! Leaked! How to make Viral Videos!

NOTE: Do Not SPAM!

People hate spammers. I hate spammers. Don’t Spam! Don’t post a million Myspace bulletins of the same thing, don’t just post a crappy comment to post your URL. By doing these things your are building a bad name for yourself and the URL you are posting. So STOP IT!!!!

PLEASE GIVE FEEDBACK.

24 Comments

Brian on April 16th, 2008

Hey,
Great article on music website promotions! I am working with a music project called Blastbeat that really utilisies all the social networking tools for sharing and promoting music. Blastbeat began in Ireland and is now happening in New York, LA, South Africa and many countries in Europe. Blastbeat has it’s own social networking site http://www.blastspace.com which allows members to share music, gig video and resources. Full details can be found on http://www.blastbeat.org

Wiz on April 17th, 2008

This article helped a lot. keep this good info coming and i will continue to check em out. “respect”

PORT CITY BEATZ on April 17th, 2008

this is a helpful article…
imma try 2 use it!

Jeremy on April 20th, 2008

Great article. Love your writing and all the research you do to get great material. I may not be truly focused on being a producer but a lot of your tips I have applied to my own website if I haven”t thought of them before… which most I haven’t.

Keep up the great work!

– Jeremy

B-Polar on May 28th, 2008

Those are some really good tips, Ive already started using some of them. There seems to be an abundance of good information here, some really excellent advice and production tips. Ive learned a lot, hopefully enough to improve my own productions and self promote myself better. Keep Up the Good work!
Oh and btw if you get a chance visit :
http://www.myspace.com/illbakabpolar

dfluid on June 17th, 2008

Good article, direct and to the point. Social networking definitely seems to be the name of the game in promoting your site. Useful content that updates frequently also can not be overstated to get repeat visitors.

-dfluid
http://electrobeatmaker.com

AlpyneProductions.com on August 17th, 2008

decent stuff here… there are a ton of ways to utilize these methods, different twists on these methods, and quite a few other ways to bring in traffic. I may have to write that article to support this one and bring even more ways for Independent Artists to shine. good stuff my guy…

..1..

Alpyne

http://www.AlpyneProductions.com
http://www.FreeMp3Beats.com
http://www.LetsGetMoneyOnline.com

Persis on April 1st, 2009

dude, thx for the info. I’m taking your advice & postin on forums, blogs etc.
I’m beginning right here with your blog.

Keep doing your thing, as it helps us.

It seems like you know what you’re talking about.

Alot of people don’t want to help others. I’m glad there are people like u out here who are willing to help aspiring beatmakers/producers.

Persis on April 1st, 2009

also Alpyne music. tell us how u made a success out of your website..

i’ve made my own website, been promoting it day n night, but not sold 1 beat with my website, while.. i have sold 30+ beats with mybeatshop.com etc.

i don’t quite understand this..

Persis on April 1st, 2009

alpyne, since u have a successfull website, could u write an article/give info about how you made your site what it is right now..?

i mean.. i got my own website, but i’ve not been able to sell anything with my website till now. I know it must NOT be the beats, cuz i’ve sold 30+ beats without my website… this is very strange and i don’t really understand it..

I’ve been promoting my website on forums, banners on websites, myspace, twitter, soundclick and alot of other sites..

JayStar on November 25th, 2009

WE got on sites like OOiZiT.com that promote your band. It’s working quite well for us.

Aaron on December 21st, 2009

Well, that was a great blog and I enjoyed the read, you should note though that some of those youtube videos have been removed by the user, just thought you should know.

Im currently using this list to promote my site: http://www.mediamach.com so thanks for the help :).

D' drumma boii on December 30th, 2009

I wz jst abt 2 gv up.music promotn is challengin bt ur page js savd d day! Tnx

Matias on March 8th, 2010

Great article. Very good tips right here… Especially the leave comments on blogs/myspace tip.
Helped me quite a bit!

- Vis

Chakali on March 9th, 2010

Really useful tips. I never thought of the idea of leaving comments on other people’s blogs. Thanks for that. Chakali

Sean Blaque on July 21st, 2010

I love all this useful info this site has to offer. It definitely helps one step their game up if they are not up to par.

Underrated Hip-Hop Shop on April 11th, 2011

Good tips man I really appreciate posts’ like this, I’m trying to do something for the underground Hip-Hop community, we deserve a spotlight too.

FreeBeats on April 14th, 2011

free beats @ banger committee. google me.

awesome article.

Jaymax on May 24th, 2011

I think these are the best method to Promote own Music Website.Helpful post.Thanks

musay on June 2nd, 2011

Best comment out their, tnx much. I learned a lot from reading this,then i did from many sites combined.Gud luck to everyone thatz trying to be heard in any way…….Peace