Best Blog and RSS Directories

I know many of my readers are unfamiliar with link building, so let me ‘splain a few quick things to help clarify the what, why, and how.

Basically, one good way to expand your reach and readership is to get your blog out there!  Blog and RSS directories are simply a credible listing of sites that they choose to display so that there visitors can conveniently find great content, organized by their category of interest.

This is beneficial in two ways. First and primary reason being exposure and potential traffic generation from someone interested in your blog topic, and the second being the quality links that are being built from respected and well ranking sites-which are linking back to yours.

Link Building for Artist/Musician Websites

Today let’s venture slightly off the beaten path of your musical development and independent artist career responsibilities… Let’s talk about your online presence. Today we are going to talk about an often overlooked area of building your online presence… It’s called Link Building. Link-what…? Exactly.

Link Building For Musicians Websites?

Link Building for artists/musicians websites is not something that is typically addressed by the independent artist because they just don’t usually understand what it means, and why it’s important.

Independent artists, Musicians, and Bands that are active in building their online presence are typically engaged with blogging, list-building, and social media… Which is good! If you are actively communicating with your audience through regular blogging, sharing content through social media, and email; you are way ahead of the curve, and i salute you!

If each keyword, or keyword phrase – is a car that’s going to bring you targeted, interested, new traffic to your pages and website… Then the wheels represent the keyword research, because without them.. ALL FOUR of them. Then that car won’t drive anyone… anywhere.

Just as the car won’t drive without 4 wheels, your keywords won’t produce the best results if you don’t address these 4 critical areas during your research phase.

Relevancy
We need to first determine your services, products, terminology, and most appropriate search queries with which we can start sifting and sorting to find the gems.

Easiest Way to Build High Quality Backlinks to Your Website

So in this day and age, its become pretty clear that what is valued by PEOPLE as well as search engines is high quality content and an engaging, available, online presence. Obviously, most of the spammy qualitative based approaches to building your online presence which may have worked for some in the past, was inevitably, a poor strategy.

Anyway, for those of us who didn’t get all the SEO stuff right from the start, and who focused on the content, while we may have gotten that right, there is still a whole part that you and i are missing. It is the foundation that google has built there algorhythm around. Links. We are not going to get into a full lesson on links and linking today, but suffice  to say for now that you want…

Hey guys, just a practical, bite sized, link building quick tip…

As you hopefully understand by now, anchor text links are one of the most powerful factors for influencing your rankings and showing up for your keywords at the top of the SERPS.

One easy and effective way you can get good links is by utilizing the web properties you already own or occupy.

Soundclick, for example, is an artist community, one of the originals by the way, and they offer a free blog for members.

By posting a blog and and using the anchor text html code with a relevant keyword linking back to a page you want to get ranked for, you can easily build a valuable link that won’t cost you much time, effort, and is free.