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Musformation - Daily Musicians News, Tips, Gear, Business and Gossip

Musformation - Daily Musicians News, Tips, Gear, Business and Gossip

Musformation - Daily Musicians News, Tips, Gear, Business and Gossip

Musformation - Daily Musicians News, Tips, Gear, Business and Gossip

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It's a well established fact that seach engine optimization, or SEO, is an important tool for building an online presence and attracting more traffic to your website. To learn more about SEO, see Dave Hahn's Search Engine Optimization for Musicians. As he mentions, musicians needn't be overly concerned with SEO on their own website if it's for mostly promotional and informational purposes. This is very true, and the last thing a working musician needs is one more distraction from their instrument. However, the concepts are important to understand as you expand your internet presence because better optimization helps more people find your music. In this article, we'll apply these concepts outside the musician's website and into other online communities. Most social networks have their own internal search functions or methods of organizing user profiles. Twitter is an excellent example of a site whose search engine helps not only connects people with common interests, but also allows v...

Musformation - Daily Musicians News, Tips, Gear, Business and Gossip

Companies are planning to invest in artists who lack record deals and help them find audiences online.