As promised I am back again with another music related article. Today's topic is "how to create a music website". As everyone knows, in this day and age a musician should have a website or at a webpage to help their fans identify them and their brand online. It is up to the artist to ensure that the website includes everything needed to keep their fans satisfied and still wanting more. In the next paragraph or two I will talk about a few key ingredients that should be on every artists website/webpage.
The key ingredients to any artists website are your music, contact information, photos, news, and a biography page. The music page should contain of few of your best high quality songs so your listeners will know what to expect from your upcoming releases. This can be your main page and should contain links to your Twitter, Facebook, Myspace pages etc... The thing to remember is the more links that you provide to your other sites, the more often a person is to add you on those sites which will then help them find your website at a later time.
As far as contact information you don't need an extra page for it but you should have it included on one of the main pages. Your contact information should be in plain view so that anyone that has inquiries about you as an artist can get in touch with you or your manager. The photos page should contain a few high quality photos for press releases. You can also add photos of yourself on tour, doing random activities, or recording music in the studio. The news page can be a blog as well as just a normal text based page. I prefer to run a blog because of the freedom it provides and the fact that I can update it easily from my Blogger account. The last but certainly far from least important part of your website is your biography page. This page gives fans an idea of who you are and where you are from. The biography page also makes it easier for editors to write articles about you for magazines and other forms of social media.
Making a website can be fun and rewarding but it is oftentimes just as challenging and upsetting. It can be rough when you don't have the page views that you desire, but the key to maintaining a great music website is to give it time. Search engines don't just add your page and index it within the first few days of creation, so it could take quite some time before people even know that it exists. In my next article I will explain how to promote your website and use SEO to help even more people find it. I will also go a little in depth about page rank and other factors that affect how easy your website is to identify. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read my articles and I will see you next time. ~Royale~
Christopher "Royale" King
Royal Records (Underground Label)
http://www.thisisroyale.com/
chrisking919@gmail.com
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