Kurb link building strategies 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://romantech.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/

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/">http://www.kurb.co.nz</a>

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo">http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo">http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo</a>

<a href="http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/">http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com</a>

<a 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">http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_artists.htm</a></span>

<a href="http://www.romantech.co.nz/">http://www.romantech.co.nz</a>

<a 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/">Kurb Promotions Website </a>

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/kurbpromo">Kurb Myspace</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/kurbpromo">Kurb Promo on Youtube</a>

<a href="http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/">Official Kurb Blog - click through to subscribe</a>

<a 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">Check out our digital coaching - online promotion and income generating packages for artists</a>

<a href="http://www.romantech.co.nz/">Drum'n Bass DJ Romantech</a>

<a 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/kurb

How 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.
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_promotions.htm
Check out our digital coaching - online promotion and income generating packages for artists
Info on digital Video marketing - and production services available in Auckland
http://databass.giantrobot.co.nz/kurb_online.htm
More promotions articles features and info for artists
Cheap posters - placement in AUckland or Free delivery in NZ

http://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/romantech

http://www.romantech.co.nz/
http://www.myspace.com/realitycompound
http://www.youtube.com/user/realitycompound
http://www.last.fm/music/Reality+Compound
http://www.squidoo.com/realitycompound
http://romantech.wordpress.com/
http://romantech.blogspot.com/

Marcus Aurelius Ceasar

Not EVERYONE who was an emperor of the Roman empire ran around fucking horses and what not.

Marcus Aurelius was the nice old bloke in "Gladiator".


The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
- Marcus Aurelius

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
- Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
- Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
- Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Marcus Aurelius

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
- Marcus Aurelius

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- Marcus Aurelius

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- Marcus Aurelius

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius

In fact I definately should

I actually got a PR3 just because this blog is like three years old.

I'm gonna have to come up with something.

Direction for Compassion fatigue

I don't know what I'm going to do with this blog put I'm not going to be posting any more promotions articles you can check that out at:

http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com
http://kurbpromotion.blogspot.com
http://www.kurb.co.nz

I'm sure I'll come up with something for compassion fatigue. Reinvent it as some kind of platform for something.

Let's wait and see.

State of Compassion Fatigue

I'm just running around all my blogs just having a look at whats going on, tidying up anything and revising what I'm doing.

People get caught up in blogs as a business tool, a networking and social tool, and a search optimizer but they forget the timeless value of just simply using a journal to get your thoughts down and reflect on where you’re at.

Compassion fatigue was my original “other general stuff” blog,First on Blogger back in the day, then I added a blog on wordpress as well, then I started just piling on all the promo articles I was doing and it all got fairly pointless pretty swiftly as these posts are all well covered by my promotions blogs:Well yeah lets just have that blogroll again shall we?

Promo
http://kurbpromotion.wordpress.com/http://kurbpromotion.blogspot.com/
http://www.kurb.co.nz/

covering music promotion and digital marketing stuff. These are my professional blogs I update most regularly
My Music

http://romantech.blogspot.com/
http://romantech.wordpress.com/
http://www.myspace.com/romantech
http://www.romantech.co.nz/

This is where you can follow stuff to do with tunes, drum’n bass, beats, gigs in Auckland other stuff.


http://realitycompound.com/
http://realitycompound.wordpress.com/
http://realitycompound.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/realitycompound

This is my crazy multi media project. I don’t really know whats going on with it right now but hey.
Other music

http://theinformedchoice.blogspot.com/
http://informedchoice.wordpress.com/

General mp3 blog. No posts yet.

http://starff.blogspot.com/
http://starf.wordpress.com/

Starf is for general copy I produce, especially “advertorial” type content for clients. No posts yet


Other stuff.

http://shutupandkissme.wordpress.com/
http://squeakybone.blogspot.com/

I also blog about girls because its of interest to me. It’s an interesting topic.

http://piratematty.wordpress.com/
http://piratematty.blogspot.com/

For my pirate stuff. I’m planning on getting back into childrens entertainment.


http://modernjourneys.wordpress.com/
http://modernjorneys.blogspot.com/

for my fiction and general creative writing. No posts yet.