Building a website..

Hi and welcome to the "Building a website" page!

The biggest advantage of having a site of your own..is that you promote yourself and your music to the world.

It's easy and fun...

How important is a site for a songwriter or any music artist?

Having your own website it's by far the most the most exiting promotion that you can imagine. Although, you need to know some tricks on how to get some traffic and visitors to your site first, but once you're on track with the right web host, it can't go wrong.

But one thing clear, you need to be a good student and do exactly what you're told to do.

In short: About the web..

On the World Wide Web you can find all the people you need and all the companies you need, to set up a successfully musical career.

The average web surfer, the fans, the music business people. Every human , searching for information or they're searching for new music,.....

The web is in fact A gigantic market place with more than 50,000,000 websites.

High competitive, of course, but....

Building a website is in the first place for your fans, but also for other visitors. They visit your site out curiosity . If your site is looking great, they'll read your biography,listen to samples of your music, probably even downloading some of your songs or your latest CD( for a fair price of course)

Visitors on your site can also watching stream video gig performance. This is all posseble when having a web presence.

How to create traffic.

Make you site ready for the spiders to crawl your content, and everything else that's on your site. But never forget the content. Put some good original content on your pages. Search engines ( Google,Bing,Yahoo...) loves good content. Information that people are looking for on the web,and why they came to your site ( as you have maybe arrived on this site too)in the first place.

You'll become World Famous

They love your songs and will download your music like crazy...

Great! They'll also subscribe to your (free) newsletter and read all information (up-coming gigs..)and they might become real fans.

They are happy, and you are certainly. Who's asking for more?

Turning your hobby into your business and still love doing it!

While your fan base is growing, A&R people will become interested in you(with your fan base growing) and your site and make a visit your web site to look how professional you are ,how good your performance is on stage and to listen to some song samples. Tell me, could it be better?

So, now that you're convinced that build your website is an important issue...

Take the next step.

Also, you have to give them your e-mail address, where they can send you lot's and lot's of advertisement.

With other words , they will spam you and what can you do about it? You have a free web site . Isn't it? Some of those free hosting companies will kick you of the net after some time.

Why?

Maybe because you didn't sign up for a promotion campaign or something like that. Or just because it's free, and free don't last forever

Then there are the advertisement pop ups you have to deal with. All kind of things that makes that free is not always interesting any more.

Building a website if you wish to have some extra income.

You want a site that looks professional for the music business guy's and for the public ( the visitors).

You have a passion to share with the world....and

You need to turn your hobby into a business.

What reasons Do You need more to start your own website!

Why a paid website!

We have said the magic words that make visitors come to your website: KEYWORDS

As an example:

Many webmasters are having an link page, or a contact page... So they ad a linkpage that named: www.mywebsite.com/linksto or/links That's wrong SEO. Search engines have a billion searches with the terms: Links-to, or link-page. You need to be more specific. If your site is about guitars, then you can name your link page: /guitar-resources, or Guitar-links. With these keywords , your link page have a change to get a ranking and be found with the bigger search engines..

You wanna make money, and so you wish to start an online business. One thing clear! Forget about the "Get rich quick and easy" thing!

True,starting a business online is made easier then ever. Why? You need to know some HTML, but not much.

If you're not such a cybertech person, then that's allright , because you doesn't need to know all this to make a good web site.

Many webhosts profide a "block per block".Like this company does. Like I said, it's easier then ever.

Write about your music instruments, or about your recording equipment? Write about it.

Gigs,promotions that you have done.. All kind of things that are important for you , and thereby could be important for others too.

If you do it this way.. Then instead of building a website , you'll building yourself a music business! In the real world, setting up a business would cost you a small fortune. A good website cost you $ 299 a year. Tis money you'll get back easely by the money that you make. Selling your CD's ,promoting your gigs...

I forget to tell you that you can make not only fame with a good web site, but also fame and fortune.

Business means money,

When working from home...

learn it all here.. By the way....Life is learning...

Thanks for your visit.. Feel free to re-visit our website to follow the updates..

The webmaster Paul F

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