Promoting Your Self and Your Music, as an Independent Music Artist, and Help Tips

Hi,
My name is Steve Morgan, and I have been a Music Artist and in the Business since 1967,
have been in verios bands of different genres like, rock, blues, jazz/swing, country...
I have had a small recording studio for the past 12 years, and have been active in it, since about a year ago.

I have been working on this free website, MusicPlaces.com, dedicated to helping independent music artists
promote them selfs, and sell their music on the internet, with a Music
Artist and Listener Community.
The site offers FREE accounts to all Music Artists and Listeners.

Artist
accounts feature a Main Artist Profile Page with a portable flash player that each artist and fans can
use to post music on other sites getting even more exposure than most other sites give, also other site features
like mp3 song hosting, video hosting, guest book, photo gallery, digitel music store,
an artist promo kit in pdf format, Internet radio stations,and so much more!!
There are so many ways to promote your music on the internet for free, and this is one of the
best resources for independent music artists and listeners that love Indie Music!

Now, I would like to help artists get the most out of internet self promotion by giving you some sound
advice about how to get started.

First, there are many free music artist sites that you can get free artist accounts on.

Join as many of these as you can, still being able to moniter each of your accounts at least 2 times a month,
keeping active and puting fresh content up as much as possable.
I would think that 5 or 6 of these would be some work, especialy if you are giging and work a day jab too!


Try to choose sites that have been around for more than 2 or 3 years, as they are probably more established
on the internet and have more traffic and listeners giving free exposure to your page.


Try keeping your user names (artist name) on all of these sites the same, as this will only help with search engine results
when searching for your name or band name in a search engine.


Try being as active on all sites as you have time for, as this will get your name out there, and people on the internet will soon
know who you and your music are!

Choose one of these sites to be your home site, and link to it from all of your other sites.
Usualy when selecting a home site for your music, select the site with the most features for free first!
Making sure that the site you choose is the fastest loading and works the best.


Most of these music sites that you sign up with have forums these days.
Be as active in as many of them that you can, make a link to your home page as your forum signature, if they let you.
Search engine spiders spider forums every day and the more posts you post, the more links you will have in google.
The more links you have, kinking to your home page in google, the higher google will rank your home page.

Sites with portable players that you can put on other sites that play your songs are a great resource for getting exposure
on places in the internet that wont host your mp3 songs.

MusicPlaces.com has a great portable player that will play your songs on sites that let you past code into them
like myspace, tagworld, and other places that let you use html, including forums, blogs, guest books...

If you sell your music, most sites these days have a Digital
Store.
Put your music for sale on as many of these places that you can.
Even if you dont sell anything, your songs and merchandise will be spidered by the search
engines and you will get more exposure!

Have a good email address that works, and check it often, answering any enquiries and fan messages.

It takes some time to get real popular as far as google is concerned
but, time will pay you with good results!