The Lucky Seven - 7 Techniques for Marketing Your Band or Music Online

1. Establish A Search Engine Friendly, Simple, but Effective Website. Don't overpay Ammericanidol use excessive flash animation. (Flash Animation is bad for ranking in the search engines)

2. Create a MySpace! Join MySpace Music Groups and get the word out. Network and add as many friends as possible. Then do Bulletins and Messages Randyfishman all your friends about shows, new Downloadtvshowsffqcyoc etc. There are even "FriendBlaster" programs Brentardtlxdzpb Enxxwxucw get to add massive friends to your friends list.

3. Make your tunes, pictures, bio readily available both on your myspace and website.

4. Upload your tunes to as many band promotion websites as possible. last.fm, ourstage.com,

American idol underground, to name a few. Do a search, there are dozens of places to upload your tunes for free or for a small fee.

5. Advertise on Free Classifieds such as Craigslist. Craigslist has a musicians section where you can post information on upcoming shows and events, or create links to your MySpace or website directly from Craigslist using hyperlink HTML code or just by placing in front of your website address. Also try UsFreeAds, and other similar services where you can get 100% Free listings.

6. Write Expert Articles and submit them to EzineArticles.com, GoArticles, and other Article Directories. Write in the music category about something you have knowledge of, and then you get a moment to include a link to your website at the bottom, where you can ask people to listen to your tunes or visit your webpage or MySpace.

7. Network on Musicians Forums and Message Boards. Just search for music forums, and talk to

others. You can usually include a tagline with your myspace or website address. The more traffic to your site the better.

Remember! The idea is to get as many people interested long enough to listen to your music, and perhaps come out to a show or tell anyone about the song. The way you do that online is by getting as many people to play an mp3, which usually will be done on a promotional website that you create a profile on, or by anyone who has visited your website or MySpace as a result of your marketing efforts. Get as many people as possible to your webiste by creating as many links as possible, and by telling as many people as you can about the band, the music, etc.

You should also be familiar with the process of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) which can help bring in "organic" traffic to your website. But one of the most important factors to that, is links to your website, which is what we have discussed here. You can also utilize Pay Per Click in Google AdWords or Yahoo! Search Marketing if you have a band that is essential a business, i.e. you play for pay, play at weddings etc.

Good luck!

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