SEO for Musicians Who Feel Like They’ve Been Left Behind

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August 7, 2012{ 3 Comments }

SEO Image SEO for Musicians Who Feel Like Theyve Been Left BehindSweet Search Engine Optimization, dude!

Search Engine Optimization: sounds about as cool as playing a stadium gig with khaki shorts on, right?

You’ve got more important things to do than tinker with tags and keywords and web links in order to improve your search ranking in Google.

Well, that might’ve been true a few years ago, but nowadays the deeper your understanding of SEO, the better your chances of winning new fans online. The more fans you find online, the bigger the crowd at your next show– whether you’re wearing shorts or not.

And you call yourself a “modern” musician!

Tech-savvy musicians who understand SEO and who pay attention to analytics have a leg up on the rest of the musical competition. If you’ve been a Luddite thus far, it’s not too late to get caught up!

And for anyone out there who thinks they shouldn’t have to bother with all this geeky stuff– remember: geeks are taking over the world. It’s time to learn some new tricks or hire someone who’s got them down already (in which case it would still help to have a grasp of the basics, since you’ll be the one writing the checks).

Top 3 articles about SEO for musicians 

1. SEO for Musicians: Understanding Search Engine Optimization and How it Leads to Sales

2. A Musician’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization

3. SEO Band Names: How to Choose a Band Name So You Will Be Found Online

Oh, what the hell; let’s include a few more for good measure…

3 equally awesome articles about SEO that didn’t make it into the top 3 simply because you can’t have 6 items in a top 3 list

4. Website Optimization: Every Page is Your Homepage

5. Boost Your Search Rankings with “Like” Buttons

6. Search-Friendly Images, Google, and the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

OK. You’ve got your reading cut out for you. Hopefully these articles help you ease on down the road towards SEO gold.

Once you’ve SEO’d the heck out of your website, make sure your fans know where to buy your music– on CD Baby!

[SEO image from Shutterstock.]

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  • http://www.diroski.com/ Gemma D Lou

    Hey Chris,

    SEO band names, that’s true. The number of times I’ve attempted to find a band on google, but discover that’s there’s a movie by the same name, or another famous person, or some different result that I wasn’t looking for. I think a great move is for bands to do an allintitle check on their name in google, eg. allintitle:name of band. I did that for my blog, and there were less than 30 results after Google omits the similar entries. So I knew, if folks typed in the name of my blog into google, the blog wouldn’t have to be fighting for attention. It’s on its own.

    Nice post again,

    Gemma

  • http://twitter.com/StogaDrewStoga Drew

    Now this is an article we can get behind. The practical/tech-savvy musician should absolutely know the basics of SEO or have someone they trust who does. Good round-up Chris!

    • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

      Thanks, Drew.