More link building on myspace

  

MORE KURB LINK BUILDING ON MYSPACE

Okay just some extra morsels on SEO and link building.

Please bare in mind what I’m talking about here is known as “whitehat SEO” that means your not doing anything wrong but if you know anything about what I do and know you’ll probably be aware I’ve got tricks up my sleeve which are just naughty and plain not fair – but that’s not something I discuss “freely” haha – at least not yet!

But what I’m doing now is making up word documents with my different link family set ups.

For example I want to be able to choose to leave just a few of my most important links on a blog or a myspace comment and I also want the choice between the rich html/non html URLs and the normal html.

But if I’m creating or posting a blog or a bulletin or developing a new profile, or a squidoo lense I’ll want the full roll call of all my links, kurb links, my personal artist links, client links – the works.

Now one of the reasons I’ve been down in the dumps a little is because the myspace madness continues, and it’s been a BUMPY ride.

Myspace used to have some MASSIVE loopholes for exploiting links and google but for the last year you can’t go 5 minutes without myspace changing the rules. Now their intentions are noble – to stop the spammers – although the damage was done a year ago and those guys have taken their money and gone. To be honest myspace is taking it to a level at which the site is becoming increasingly restrictive to use for even muso’s and punters – who are suffering with annoying hassles after the spammers have cleared out.

As if the captcha code’s weren’t enough they’ve now developed their “msplinks” system so you can’t leave myspace through a link directly without myspace interfering with a warning screen.

It’s weird. Blogs are fine but profiles and bulletins . . . not so much. This is a real drag – especially as some of my links have been shut down because myspace have decided they are spam links to some unsavoury site. I’ve worked out how to get around it already, but its still a big DRAG!!!! I’ve lost about 20% of my website traffic that used to come to my site through myspace alone.

  

  So here’s my short link list in rich html, in URL form so it can be cut and pasted in non html also.http://www.kurb.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo
http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo
http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm
http://www.romantech.co.nz
http://www.realitycompound.com

Here’s the same list in Html

<a href=”http://www.kurb.co.nz/” mce_href=”http://www.kurb.co.nz/”>http://www.kurb.co.nz</a><a href=”http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo” mce_href=”http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo”>http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo</a><a href=”http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo” mce_href=”http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo”>http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo</a><a href=”http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/” mce_href=”http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/”>http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com</a><a href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm” mce_href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm”>http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm</a><a href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm” mce_href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm”>http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm</a></span><a href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/” mce_href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/”>http://www.romantech.co.nz</a>

<a href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/” mce_href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/”>http://www.realitycompound.com</a>

   

But given in html I can use keywords and phrases to lure both google and punters, that’s what I’ll do! SO instead in normal html fields, which include most comment boxes and all bullitens on myspace, I’ll aim for this:

Kurb Promotions Website
Kurb Myspace
Kurb Promo on Youtube
Official Kurb Blog – click through to subscribe
Kurb – Auckland and NZ’s best value CD and DVD duplication – no set up costs, free delivery.
Check out our digital coaching – online promotion and income generating packages for artists
Drum’n Bass DJ Romantech
Electroclash Media Group Reality Compound

Which in html code will look like this:

<a href=”http://www.kurb.co.nz/” mce_href=”http://www.kurb.co.nz/”>Kurb Promotions Website </a><a href=”http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo” mce_href=”http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo”>Kurb Myspace</a><a href=”http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo” mce_href=”http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo”>Kurb Promo on Youtube</a><a href=”http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/” mce_href=”http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/”>Official Kurb Blog – click through to subscribe</a><a href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm” mce_href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm”>Kurb – Auckland and NZ’s best value CD and DVD duplication – no set up costs, free delivery.</a><a href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm” mce_href=”http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm”>Check out our digital coaching – online promotion and income generating packages for artists</a><a href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/” mce_href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/”>Drum’n Bass DJ Romantech</a>

<a href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/” mce_href=”http://www.romantech.co.nz/”>Electroclash Media Group Reality Compound</a>

 

And finally: all the links in rich html.

 http://www.kurb.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo
http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo -
http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com
http://kurbpromotion.blogspot.com
http://www.squidoo.com/kurbHow I approach a new client at Kurb (Dec 07)
Kurb – Auckland and NZ’s best value CD and DVD duplication – no set up costs, free delivery.
Index of digital promotion, media, marketing and online artist managment services @ Kurb
Check out our digital coaching – online promotion and income generating packages for artists
Info on digital Video marketing – and production services available in Auckland
Online promotion options available @ Kurb
More promotions articles features and info for artists
Cheap posters – placement in AUckland or Free delivery in NZhttp://www.romantech.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/romantech
http://www.youtube.com/user/djromantech
http://www.last.fm/music/Romantech
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Romantech
http://www.squidoo.com/romantech
http://romantech.wordpress.com
http://romantech.blogspot.com
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/7718/
http://cdbaby.com/cd/djromantech
http://www.reverbnation.com/romantechhttp://www.realitycompound.com
http://www.myspace.com/realitycompound
http://www.youtube.com/user/realitycompound
http://www.last.fm/music/Reality+Compound
http://www.squidoo.com/realitycompound
http://realitycompound.wordpress.com
http://realitycompound.blogspot.com
www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/13634/reality_compound.html

Kurb link building habits for musicians

I’LL BE HONEST ABOUT SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION. IF YOU PLAN TO GET OUT OF MUSIC IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS WITHOUT PUTTING IN ANY WORK TIO ESTABLISH AN ASSET AND WITHOUT MAKING ANY MONEY – THEN WORRY ABOUT YOUR CD AND FORGET ABOUT YOUR WEBSITE.

IF YOU WANT TO BE MAKING MONEY IN MUSIC IN 2 YEARS START WORRYING ABOUT THIS NOW.

Links as I say pretty often, is the main way you get your website ranking nice and highly on google -

Google’s not just the biggest search engine and genrator of advertising revenue in the world.

so spreading your links around not only gets people interested in clicking those links but more importantly, help to tell google how special you are in your area of talents.

There are now – thanks to web 2.0 – HEAPS of places you can leave links. Blogs, Social Networks, Forums, and all your profiles most obviously.

That’s mainly why I joined Seth Godin’s site http://www.squidoo.com after checking out some tips from a pdf sent to be by a chillout and downtempo artist I’m working with, Ganga from Denmark.

Because Squidoo, not REALLY that remarkable for being a cross between a blogsite and a wiki (you might want to think about knowing the difference if you don’t) rather, “gives good google juice”.

Links back from squidoo, which anyone can create, help rank your site.

I’m thinking that I should probably stop giving out advice without explaining why google ranking is so important, but I dont have time to blog all day. But when you use wordpress like I am now its easy just to type out the links and create a live link like this:

 http://www.kurb.co.nz

Now doing this and creating a live link in Rich Text, can be cut and pasted as is, even into a non rich text html field and when its published regardless of whether its live or not people can still cut and paste the link, though obviously this is nowhere near as good as a live link but basically – this way you can keep your little “link family” of all your important links on hand in one place to simply cut and paste whenever you need them.

Myspace is a typical example of a site that has rich text html, normal html, and no html areas so just typing out the URL in rich text as I have done below covers you for all possibilities.

But also in wordpress and other blogging platforms, you can create rich text with live links and then just swap them over to copy and paste the html code, so you can post your links into normal html fields to create links as well and to be honest, that covers alot of the best opportunities on myspace and blogs, forums etc. so you can plop down links basically anywhere you a writing in a box and publishing it to the net, you should be leaving a link!!! And having all these links everywhere just reinforces the message to the those little baby google spiders . . .

YOU ARE IMPORTANT!!!!!!

http://www.kurb.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo
http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo
http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com
http://kurbpromotion.blogspot.com
http://www.squidoo.com/kurb
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/new_clients_free_consultation.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_promotions.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_online_management_digital_coaching_for_artists_and_musicians.htm

http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_posters.htm

  http://www.ganga.dk

http://www.alwalser.com

March tidbits

NME to closedown?.But there were glum faces and dark mutterings among the assembled media insiders. One key reason for this gloom was the magazine’s circulation figures for the second half of 2007. Averaging around 64,000 per issue, they are the lowest ever, and a steep decline on previous years. Given NME’s growing profile online, on TV, at festivals and branded tours, these figures seem a strange and bitter pill. Some industry commentators are even speculating that the print version could close within months. “Who reads the NME then?” Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs singer asked pointedly.

Is “Selling out” the only way to cash in?

http://adage.com/article?article_id=125587

Rock’s anti-corporate ethos has softened in recent years (read: totally disappeared in the case of most artists), and labels’ opportunities for nontraditional revenue have grown through licensing and branding partnerships. But that hasn’t made life any less complicated for musicians trying to retain fans and make a living. As a just-released NPD Group study pointed out, 48% of U.S. teens didn’t purchase a single CD in 2007. And while legal purchases of digital music are on the rise, it’s not nearly enough to make up for declines in traditional CD sales.

Ad supported music discussion @ SXSW from Coolfer:

it seems that many people are not comfortable with the melting pot (I kinda hate that word but I’ll use it here) that is today’s record business. Different parties are going to have to live with the existence of different business models. Not all music is going to be given away at social media or artist websites, and not all music is going to be a paid download with a predetermined amount going to the owner of the sound recording. Hobbyists can give away their music while full-time professionals need a decent income. Between the two extremes are artists who want exposure and something in return for their work. Celebrity pop stars don’t need the same sales model (or sales channel) as does an established jazz musician or singer-songwriter 15 years removed from a hit. There will be different types of contracts, different rights and different levels of ownership. It will be difficult to say if any one is better or worse than another, or if any one “cheapens” music or does harm to the tenets of intellectual property. They’re just different.

Fan Based revenue models @ Coolfer

It’s fun to see all the different ways artists can gather funds and release music. Some artists can speak directly with their fans and tap into what is basically a very cost-effective sales channel. There’s no waste in resources when fans pay upfront and the finished project requires no marketing dollars or distribution fees.

Jill Sobule has raised more than $80,000 from 552 fans to record, manufacture, distribute and market her next album. (Online Fandom, via Digital Audio Insider) It took just 53 days to reach the goal of $75,000. Different levels of participation get fans different payoffs…$10 gets a download, $10,000 gets you into the recording studio with Jill. And yes, somebody did pony up $10,000. (Her menu options mimic the way some artist make money at artistShare.)

Marillion was able to gather $725,000 from its fans to record and release a new two-CD set. Over 12,000 fans responded to the band’s call for funds late last year. The band has received financial support from fans a number of times in the past, both to record and tour (this article at Sound on Sound recaps those projects).

For those artists that need the help of others, Slicethepie.com is becoming a more formidable option. The company received an additional $2 million in funding. Slicethepie.com helps artists raise money from fans for their projects and collect £2 per album sold.

http://www.kurb.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo
http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo
http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com
http://kurbpromotion.blogspot.com
http://www.squidoo.com/kurb
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/new_clients_free_consultation.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cds.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_cheapest_cd_dvd_duplication_auckland_new_zealand.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_promotions.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_online_management_digital_coaching_for_artists_and_musicians.htm
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_posters.htm